Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1907-03-05

fore Sunday and holidays, when they
are closed at noon
Second Liquor must not be served
Ito person believed to be intoxicated,
NOR in such quantities that intoxica-
ton may ensue. S
Third--Liquor must be served only
in the company's glasses, and on cash
payment
Fourth When liquor ordered has
i been consumed the person must leave
the premises at once. Children and
apprentices not allowed.
Fifth Customers not conducting
themselves in quiet and decent man
|ner are at once ordered out by the
manager.
i The company system is differen-
tiated from other systems by aiming
Ito do away with the following abuses
and temptations as summarized by
i George P. Morris:
4 First-Nations are tempted to toler-
ate, if not encourage and stimulate
the production of liquors, because of
the revenue that accrues.
!. Second individuals are tempted to
/ engage in the manufacture and sale Of
liquors, not because they desire to see
men ruined by the use or abuse, or
because of any intrinsic pleasure there
is in the business, but oftenest because
tof the abnormal profit
Third Other individuals especial
lily in this country forming the con-
/ Stunning class, are tempted to purchase
| and partake of liquor in public resorts,
i not chiefly because Of a craving for
4 the liquor but because of sense of OBJ.
legation to purchase, which they feel
i toward the man who furnishes them
4 with a social rendezvous, or because
| of the supposed binding force of a
1 code of friendship which makes A feel
! that he must treat B, and B in turn
| feel that he must accept AS invitation,
4 and then reciprocate in kind. x. &
ta|Et
Fourth Shops that are open for
i the sale of liquor late at night espe-
/ cially on Saturday and on Sunday
absorb a large proportion Of the daily
/ and weekly earnings Of the people.
4 Fifth Usually, the gambling den
and the brothel are near by, if not alb
solutey identified with the shop where
/ liquors are retailed, and each derives
its greatest revenue when thus asso-
II ciated. 5s.s55 s4
a Sixth Wherever the selection Of
i the places for the sale Of liquor and
| the selection Of the men who are to
/ profit personally by that sale are left
| to the decision Of local officials elected
4 by the suffrage Of the people, there is
/ an effort by the Iquor-producing and
liquor-selling class to control local pol
4 itics and dominate in the administra-
ton Of the liquor laws. There the sa-
4 looms become the adquarters for the
minor t'bosses' and "heelers,,' where
i plans are laid for the strengthening
lof the machines and the corruption
/ of electors and officials There the
4 laws respecting Sunday closing are
4 constantly evaded and society is com
PEELED to watch its executive officials.
i to see that they comply with their
ioaths of office.
Results Of the System.
What has the system done for Nor.
way to remove these abuses and temp.
ltations? e.
First-t reduced within a few years
the number of places licensed to sell
/ spirits from one for every 591 inhabi-
tants to one for every i, 41s. IN the
| country districts only twenty-five Ii
q censed places remain, or one to about
Il 5000 inhabitants.
q Second Within the range of its an.
plication the saloon as center for
ward heelers and the political machine
does not exist. The saloon as the en-.
trance to the brothel and every other
form Of vice is driven out. The ruin.
Gus credit system, by which the wages
OF Workingmen are often SO hopeless.
/ ly mortgaged, lis abolished. The hours
1 OF sale have been reduced as nowhere
i else. Every restriction and regulation
/ which good men can devise, short Of
entire prohibition, limit the sales. Ali
4 this It has done where liquor is sold.
q Elsewhere, generally throughout the
4 country districts, prohi bition prevails
and concurrentIy with these gains, a
temperance sentiment has been de
veloped which. not hindered, as with
US, by the powerful liquor Hobbies,
1 which use their enormous profits ftak.
en- away from them in Norway to cor,
rupt legislation In order to defeat re-
strictive legislation. could pass a law
/ creating q local option system, which
gives every man and woman the right
| to vote, not on the issue Of no-Iicense
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