The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-03-17
AGAINST INVASION OF
INALIENABLE RIGHTS
NO. 10

The concerted vociferation of a cote
rie of preachers of a few Protestant
sects and their male and female adju-
tants in this State against the saloon
and saloon-keepers" has evidently effect
ed in some gentlemen in the legislative
halls and elsewhere in the State House
a delirious zeal to establish themselves
in the good graces of the vociferators
Witness: the several bills for the "regu-
lation of the sale of intoxicating
liquors." from the local option bill to
the one providing for "a State board
for the revocation of licenses each one
aiming at the greatest suppression of
the beer saloon a~chievable, and the
: more strictly "~befathering'' of the dear
people of the State in their social GUS
toms and habits.
Probably anxious about the fate of
the local option bill, because of the en-
phatic protests against its enactment
by tens of thousands of citizens who
do not acknowledge, and will not sub
init to, preachers domination of the
people of the State in their secular at
Idl0-ltlC GdOollNhNAOii VI Il LliCOSAd NN
for a democracy in New Jersey-As-
semblyman Morgan has FASTENED to in
troduce a bill aiming at achievement
by indirection of what is sought direct
ly by the local option bill. His bill pro-
vides for the fixing of the amount of
license fee to be required for the sale
of distilled or malt beverages in any
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jority of votes cast in that community
at a balloting upon request Of a certain
percentage of its voters. 1t is d resur-
rection of one of the provisions of the
'Werts liquor law" of 1889, which, if our
memory does not deceive us, has been
adjudged Illegal.
Senator Avis has introduced a bill TO
create "a State board for the revocation
of licenses" to be appointed by the
Governor. This board on complaint of
any citizen of the State alleging vio-
lation of the excise laws by "a holder
OF a license to sell distilled or ferment-
ed beverages shall cite before it the
alleged violation, hear h case, and II
finding the complaint sustained by two
of the members revoke the license. A
fine Illustration of the principle of local
nome RUE, DelOre eleCllOi lOuuly pdT
raded before the esteemed fellow citi-
zens'' by gentlemen seeking their votes
for high office!
Senator Robbins has introduced a
bill fixing the license fees TO be i'm
posed in the local communities of the
State, and containing two remarkable
curiosities. Namely. an attempt-the
first in the States h~istory-to establish
by law the principle" that h gov
eminent has a right to sell to the citi-
zens for their good money a gold
brick'' in the shape of a license to sell
the product of a lawful industry of the
country "~revocable at any time. with
or without a hearing, at the discretion
of the issuing authority Also a pro-
vision that all saloons or bars u be
closed at midnight every day. In other
words. that all social entertainments
arranged by societies other than the
coldwater- brotherhood shall cease at
midnight. A "curfew" command to the
alleged sovereign people of the State by
4. majority of the 81 gentlemen. n the
Governor temporarily having the power
of legislation!
To whom It may concern it is adj
visable TO zeal in mind the scriptural
a%dnonitjon. "As you sow so shall you
reap and also the words OF Abraham
lincoln; "You can fool all the people
sometimes and you can fool some peo-
MD ali he time. but you CANNOT fool
ALL the people all the timei"
Press Bureau German American
Central Alliance, Newark, n. J.