The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1907-11-07
BUSINESS HAS NOT GEr.RICh
QUICK RING ATTACHED.
GOVERNOR MAY APPOINT
Vast Number Of Applications Already
Filed by Those Who Are Willing
TO Try the Plsn-Must Await
Action Of Legislature.

| SdTJ Ieature OF the new state does
not promise to be as remuneratiye TO
the agent as has been generally unI
derstood. Dispensaries for the legiti.
mate sale of liquors upon physician's $
prescription are TO be conducted un.
der supervision OF the state. and in
a manner yet TO be fixed by law.
Each Incorporated town OF not less
than 1000 people may have one. and
when there Is no such town In a
county that county is entitled to have
one agency The constitution pre-.
scribes In detail how Individual sale
of liquors may be accomplished, and
gives the system benefit OF the usual
legal restrictions found in other pro-
hibition states The governor-elect be.
lieves the prohibitory authorizing dis
pensaries, is Immediately enforcible
upon admission OF the state to the
union, but 1t is obvious from the
wording of the constitution that the
legislature must first provide the
method OF appointment plan under
which these institutions are to op.
crate. Next in importance to the jim
Crow laws the theories statewide
prohibition will perhaps claim at.
tention of the first legi iaure.
| As has been heretofore intimated.
1 tho t1sf11 a. ~.
appointment of dispensary agents
There have been vast number OF
applications already filed. and many
have appeared in person to press their
claims. Sooner or later the applicant
grows to understand that nothing
can be done until the legislature
adds the perfecting touches by prop.
er law. II has been generally under.
stood that the dispensary business in
| Oklahoma will be sort OF Klondyke
adjunct to a business enterprise. but
there Is a most excellent opportunity
| for the public to be horribly dis
appointed. Governor-elect Haskell has
given 1t out cold that dispensaries
operated under the provision referred
to will not be an exclusive saloon
privilege in given community or
county, but that the regulations pre-
scribed In the constitution must be.
religiously met. In contrary event. and
If the appointive power rests entirely
with the governor. there is every
indication that removal from ofice
of dispensary agents will be daily
order OF business
There are number OF plans be-
ing formulated looking TO state su-
pervision OF dispensaries. 1t is yet
a question whether the agencies shall
be placed on a commission, salary,
or open basis. The last named would
mean exclusive authority to cash
physicians prescriptions in commu-
nifty or county. The commission fea-
ture would yield to the state per
cent of the dispensary profits, while
the salary basis would make the
agent hired man, turning over to
the state the net proceeds. less the |
salary he was allowed. The anti-sa.
loon league has announced it's opposi. |
ton to the commission plan as. the |
league contends, II places an incentive |
TO push the sales for the purpose OF |
enlarging the commission, necessarily
inviting law violation. The league, II |
is understood would not oppose the
salary basis. graduated as to popu.
lation, which idea is also said 10 be
the most popular with the admins
tration.
II is highly probable the plan pro.
posed in the constitutional conven.
ton by VIM. II. Murray OF Tishomin-
20 and which is regarded as an i'm
proyement on the South Carolina plan
will be seriously considered in this
connection. Mr.. Murray's idea was
that so long as the presence and
sale OF liquor was made legal the
law should protect. the legitimate
purchaser by guaranteeing a standard
of purity and at a price not to ex.
coed 10 per cent above the net cost |
to the agent, He restricted the amount
OF sale to any one person, and made
1t a penalty for allowing the goods"
to be drank on the premises. The
plan was defeated because Il was
looked upon as too near approach
OF the saloon basis.
Just how quickly other provisions
of prohibition as provided in the con.
stitution may be enforced Is a matter
for the legal and police arms OF the