The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-09-29
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Bishop Tells Excise Board
Prohibition Won't Solve
Liquor Problem.
CONTROL MUST BE TAKEN
FROM THE POLITICIANS
He Is in Favor of the Idea OF
One Saloon to Every Five
Hundred Persons.
CONTROL MUST BE TAKEN
FROM THE POLITICIANS
rFrom a STAFF Correspondent |

TRENTON, Sept. 29--With twenty
Ave advocates of local option and pro
hibitlon present the second days ses-
sion of the State Excise Commissions
: hnaI hearing was held in the State
House today In opening Chairman
Fisk told tio temperance people that
the day would be devoted to their side
of the liquor question. Tomorrow the
brewers will be heard, but report
this morning had it that the liquor
men would not be represented very
fully
Governor Fort was at the State
House, but did not attend the hearing
Members OF the commission conferred
with him in an Informal manner re-
eardinG the charges against Judge NJ
/ Berry of Ocean county, made before
! the commission last week. a saloon
man. arrested for selling on Sunday
accuses the judge of forcing him to
transfer. his license. 1t is understood
that the matter will not be referred
directly to the Governor. but the com
mission will hold a special meeting
probably a. Toms River, at which the
=. charges VIII be thoroughly sifted.
Bishop Lines's opinion.
Bishop Edwin S Lines, of the New
= X diocese Of the Episcopallan Church,
n hi ada 10 the board, said:
IA II only right to present any opinion
@~h%prc YOU is my great interest in the
= subject eud bceauf. I think # one %
the great moral and public questions
Of the time I have lived all my life
among those engaged in the liquor busi-
ness. | hTve minstered in their fani-
Hes for Etany years. and l have had
as deep an interest in them and their
children as in any other of my
parishioners | have tried to appreciate
Il or point of view as regards their
business and the question of Sunday
selling.
As far as one can sec there will b.
ia the great cities With which We have
to do. places where beer and spirits are
publicly sold. The suppression of them
by prohibition would probably lead to
the formation of clubs which could not
be controlled, and Nhich would be more
demoralizing than saloons My own
idea is that the true policy of the State
is TO limit the number Of licensed
places for the sale of beer and spirits
In some proportion to the population
say one 10 500-which is. | think. the
rule in Boston.
1.-THE licensing authority should be
In some way separated from politics,
10 that the giving of licenses would
not be something to be fought for at
every election. II would seem as If
light minded zen of both political
parties might agre. to this for the
sake of their own interests. without re-
gard to political policies.
zone does not like to see the courts
overloaded with such duties as giving
licenses or appointing excise boards,
but the courts seem TO be the authority
toward which all the people look for
fairness and regard for the public
good, rather than to city officials"
"Then the purpose should be to keep
the business in the hands of the respon-
, sihle men who are law abiding and who
do not associate evil things with the
business.
says Liquor Must He Aduiterated.
"As licenses expire. no more should
given while the number agreed, upon
filed There can be no propriety In
ling fourteen hundred licenses in the
city of Newark Those holding them can
live only by adulteration of what they
sell. by associating demoralizing prac-
tIses with the saloon, by disregard of
what we would all count decent and
respectable.
",Ihe brewers and the men in the
hni1or business must bear the reproach
of having tried TO defeat the pure food
laws and when the contest comes, as
il will come. unless reasonable regula-
tion is accepted, chemistry Is likely TO
plav its part against the saloon.
"NIen IN the liquor business complain
that they are put under ban socially
In an unfair way and that their chill
dren. for whom they have the same
ambition that we all have, suffer from
il but this will remain so until the
abuses of the business are removed by
those who are engaged in II, and no one
else can do it.
81 do mot know why q man keeping
saloon mn< not be respectable ns !"
man who keeps hotel In which there
is n public bar from which he profits.
or who rents buildings In which such
uubIic bnrs exist. do not see why n
c,un in which the members freely OBJ
toin strong drink should be more re-
s,ectubfe than n saloon. Every busi-
ness subiccf to abuse must come under
state regulation. This is true of the
sale of explosives, or of drugs, Of the
theatre, of the book sellers and the
news dealer.
As TO Personal Liberty.
"The demand for the removal of the
restrictions upon the sale of liquor, in
the interest of what is called personal
liberty. does not seem to me reasona-
bile. The restriction of personal liberty
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