Gainesville daily sun. (Gainesville, Fla.) 190?-1938, 1909-01-05
NO MORE OPEN SALOONS.


when there will De- no licensed "a.
looms IN the South must be- evident
to those who have watched the prog
ress Of the auti-saloUn movement dur.
ing the past few years. a., Some pro.
vision will mo- doubt bc made for dis.
pensing liquors under certain rostric.
tions In most OF the States. but IN,
open saloon is doomed
Referring to Atlanta's experience off
one year without the omen saloon Tho
/ Constitution of January ard says.
Police court figures for the year
1905 pay eloquent tribute To tho ab.
sgnCo Of The open har-room.
To the closing ~ The saloon must
b" chiefly attributed tn, decrease of
$50 in the number of arrests bv tho
police last year, as compared with the
record OF 1907.
To that fact also. 90 follows. Is due
the decrease OF S34.35O in the amount
Of fines collected In recorders court
and OF SlO.3SS in the value of the fines
worked out on the streets.
Add to the S35. 600 saving in police
court fines the amount OF money which
that would also represent as having
been spent across the standing bar for
intOxicants which resulted i'm the ar.
rests. and there was quite a comfort.
able sum saved TO families who would.
no doubt. have otherwise found them
selves at times in distressing and
needy circumstances.
The experiment OF the abandon
ment Of the saloon, therefore. cannot
be questioned; it's success is establish
ed i'm these figures. which. in similar
will undoubtedly be found
in other communities from which the |
saloon has now disappeared.
1t may be accepted, then, as a set
led fact that whatever system OF regu-
atiOn Georgia may ultimately see ft /
10 apply to the trade I'm bottle and
package. not to be consumed ON the
Premises. which exists i'm the State
N degree but little abated. the saloon
las gone for good and those who are
wen remotely anticipating its return
ire indulging a fatuOus hope.
The saloon was one Of the chief
gencies in the consumption OF intoxi-
ants; its presence was an invi-
alton to the easy and frequent in
ulgence I'm the social drink.
NO better proof Is obtaiuable Of its
vii influence (: -. immunity. con
idering the fact that liquor in whole
ale quantities is about as easy To get
$ ever
Georgia may or may not determine |
n the future 10 regulate that feature | I
{ the traffic which now exists uur.,..
lted and Unrestraincd. and without
eyenue 10 the State. but whatever the
tate may do in that direction. the /.
alOOn cannot come back.
III Is gone forever from Georgia
The tarif controversy continues. not
the holiday lull through
AT the country, and will continue to
20 the main topic of discussion until
be- end OF the extra session 90 De
allied by the new President after the
Durth of March, for the revision Of
he Diugley act. A long time ago
hen the Moorish pirates crept from
heir lair az Tariia near Gibraltar 60
ivy tribute from ships sailing upon
be- Mediterranean they we're engag-
d IN lawless, piratICal warfare upon /
-ade which IL was necessary for civil
zed nations 60 suppress. These
rates have been long since
uieted and their seaport, Tarifa, from
.hich the name of the system came.
abandoned The legalized tariff
-ibute upon commerce still hourishes
} its most fagrant form In the Ding
- act The question Is. how much
niger will this legal system Of pi-
icy Dee permitted TO levy tribute upon
be- industries and trade OF the great.
81 nation of the world.