The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1908-11-20
Make Vigorous Protest :. ...--ainSt
an Increase i'll Cost e.
Licenses.
FULL YEARS LICENSE TO
BE DEMANDED IN ADVANCE
Propaganda Against the Drug
Stores and, R0oming Houses;
License to Be Revoked.

Sweeping and ar-reachine reforms IN
the saloon business, and the liquor traffic
generally. were proposed in the meet
ing Of the license committee OF the city
council Thursday evening. Here are some
Of the proposed reforms;
The abolishment OF the payment Of
licenses by the quarter.
All retail, and possibly wholesale, llquor
licenses 10 be paid for the year in ad-
vance.
Drug stores. rooming houses. parlor
houses. and possibly restaurants. must pay
a retailers license of $1,000 year, in
advance, Just IS proposed oy the Sd
looms
Holders OF government licenses must
pay a city liquor license of either SlpO
or 5000 annually, In advance, as the cir
cumstsnces may demand, the possession
OF a government license 10 be prima iacle
evidence that the holder Is engaged IN the
liquor traffic.
40 license VIII be granted TO engage
in the liquor traffic In place winch
liquor laws, for six months afterwards.
Saloons, restaurants, drug stores and
all other holders OF liquor licenses must
closely follow the Sunday closing law,
SO far as il relates 10 their respective
places. under penalty of revocation
Of their license, Without refund for the
unexplred term II has TO run.
All connections. such as exits and en-
frances, between saloons and restaurants
must be abolished.
Before the Committee.
Three members OF the Bartenders'
union. Joe Lane. president; John Foote,
secretary and treasurer; Frank Stewart,
and Frank WenZel proprietor OF the owl
bar, and Thomas Osborne, connected with
the Federation of Labor. appeared before
the license committee with an emphatic
protest against the proposed increase Of
the saloon license. and charges OF dis
elimination on the part of the city and
the chief OF police In favor OF drug stores,
restaurants, parlor houses and some sa-
looms.
The representatives of the bartenders
oppose The proposed increase in the
license on The grounds that IL will mon
ing the moral tone. That the advance
would put some OF the so-called dives
out OF business and increase the trade
OF the Legitimate" saloons was admitted.
but not in proportion TO the proposed in
crease in the license.
Grave charges We're made against the
drug stores and the roominS houses IL
was alleged that practically all OF the
drug stores and cheap rooming houses,
which closely approach the So-called
hawdy houses. are violating the law. and
many OF the saloons; It was admitted.
do not observe the Sunday closing or
! d!nance. One drug store, centrally To-
Gated. sold fourteen barrels Of whisky
in one week. and another such store dis
day. Il was charged. The Sunday liquor
trade OF several cf the centrally located
drug stores is said 10 equal III receipts
that Of the saloon liquor trade for both
Monday and Tuesday.
Charge Discrimination
The committee from the bartehders and
MIR Weuzel also freely charged the chief
of police with discrimination against some
of the saloons In favor OF others as 10
the Sunday-closing law. Some OF the
] saloons, they said, are allowed to remain
| open Sunday mornings, while others are
/ ordered 10 close. When asked why the
bartenders didn't take II upon themselves
/ TO inform on the violators Mr. Stewart
! said that they arc afraid Of being black
! listed.
1t is not the saloons that ruin the
/ morals Of the people. according to tho
/ bartcnderS. but the drug stores with their
] soda fountain hghbans cheap roomlng
/ houses and the like Legitimate" sa-
! loonkecpcrs refuse 10 sell 10 minors, but
not so WIN drus stores rooming houses
ana some restaurants, and lower grade
! saloons. The shutting OFT OF many OF thC
! dives would not help the Legitimate" Sa.
/ loon man, for the reason that he woulc
| not allow that class OF trade IN his place
/ IL is asserted.
After Drug Stores.
SO effective were the arguments OF the
! bartenders that II is likely that the pro.
! posed increase in the saloon license vii
I he dropped for the present. and attention
turned TO the drug stores. roommg houses
! parlor houses, ana restaurants, The rails
l Ing OF the drug store license 10 Sl2OC
would add Approximately So. 900 to the
cityS revenues annually. Upon this point
! the license committee appeared declde ed
/ but the restaurant question will require
/ deep investigation. One thing appear:
certain, however, and that is that res
taurants that sell liquor. and saloons, vii
. have 10 do away with closed booths The
assessing OF u city license against holders
! OF government licenses will practically
/ eliminate this class Of liquor dealers, Il
! is asserted.
| The proposition OF refusing 70 grant :
/ liquor license 10 a place where there has
! been violation OF the law for six months
'afterward will have the effect OF making
the owner OF the premises sit up and take
/ notice, II Is believed. with the result that
! he Will interest himself far enough TO re-
: quire his tenant TO pledge himself to com
I ply with the law before he allows him 10
7 enter his premises.
( AS the first step in the proposed re-
| form the license OF the Broughton bal
on West Second South street. Is 10 be
! revoked next Monday night FOR violation
OF the law last Sunday.