The Jersey City news., 1906-04-03
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TUESDAY. APRIL s, 1906.


The per6dy and hypocrisy of the SEN
ate committees report on the bishops
Sbills" are nowhere more clearly conspic-
nous than IN the provision. virtually
gtew bill, purporting 10 restr.ct the npm-
ess Of saloons in any eiry to one for
every 200 people. says the Newark "Ev-
eaing News This seems, on It's face,
to be. intended to reduce the aggregate
q drinking places In this State, but it is
"a piece of the rankest deception. for it
= actually a legislative provision sug-
gesting an addition to the list of liquor
stores in nearly every large city in New
Jersey.
Out Of twsnty-six of the largest munich
gaiities IN the twelve counties of Attain
sfc, Camden, Cumberland. Essex, Hud-
son. Mercer, Middlesex. Morris. Mon
mouth, Passaic, Union and Warren, only
xour have now more than one saloon to
svery 200 inhabitants. These are At-
@ntic City. with one to every $50; Ho-
eoken. with one to every ITO; Long
Branch, with one to every lit, and Perth
nlnboy. with one TO every 100. Thus,
b the law went into effect it would close
Ep eight saloons 10 Long Branch. leaving
tlxty-one still open: thirty-two in Perth
amboy. leaving 129 in full blast; thirty
sight in Atlantic City, Ieavipg lSS in op-
aratieD. s0d sixtysepe ID Heesksa, leasp
bog s77 stist ssihg. e A9sa ass Eafsisis
This ssenas, On the surface, to be good
Is Tar as it goes. but loek at the other
side OF the question Newark has now
lsf21 saloons, or one for every 200 inhab-
stants, and the proposed law would not
affect 1t. but in every city which now
has less than the proposed legal number
successful, efforts on the part of the
erewers and liquor dealers to reach the
Limit, and practically every large city has
This State, other than those already nam
sd. would be likely to increase the num-
per Of saloons till the legal proportion
STss reached
For example, Camden has now one
Saloon 10 every 3T0 inAabitants, the Ii
feHse fee being $500. but with the fee
Ssducsa TO $500 sAAs city could hare over
go saloons Instead Of a2s Jersey City
could have Forty more saloons than
It now has, Trenton could bave 40 in
: aeaa Of 30i as at present, New Bruins
Eick could have 116 instead OF 81, Pas
naie lSo instead ef l1s, Paterson 55s
INSTEAD Of 54a, Fhialipsburg 81 Instead ef
Is, Grange 100 instead Of SO, East Or
,Anke 126 instead of "a, and Plainheid SO
4Estead Of only nine. Can there be any
ts5ouit whatever Of ehe effect OF this pre-
senaed restriction throughout the
Efatsg It would be an Invitation, spec
sal and impressive Invitation, for the
iquor dealers to apply sor naofe licenses
sntli each city had one salooa for every
goo inhabitants. with preporsionate ad-
aitiah to the number of side door and
6aek rooms.
And this is the kind Of legislation the
beople are offered instead Of the "bish-
spss bills, which they demanded. This
b What Senators Avis. Hillery and
Wakeles recommend. This Is what the
liquor dealers manage TO get from the
ommittee. while public sentiment gets
4 blow in the face. When The bearing
VAS given oil the "b'khops' billss several
aaats ago tic men who vent down .
nrspssoi, IL their behalf represented the
,sry best interests ID the State. religious.
nossA .aaust1sal educational and COIN
5nssaIal The ether side was represented
iii IS t.ls ssip5as, ths yFswsas aud the