The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1909-06-28
HIGH license
LOW LICENSE
s.IoOn Question viii Probably
Re- Principal Issue in Coming
Municipal Campaign.

tst,raen the advocates of high
"a' and low license is likely to start
-' meeting of the city council tonisht'
81 &c time past new ordinance mas
ta --.s,fre in the pigeon hole Of the
be" --,-mittee Of the council This
ss-l. .-sfrsr-e fixes the retail liquor
y" at 81 500 a year. the wholesale
license 81 90. the manufacturer S
license Of S4a. and the druggists license
arlss 10 makes other radical changes
a- t-ri5ss for midnight closihsl ~ IL
10 F-'U screens from the mont or Sd
moves "a I'M screens between the main
looms -F Inc booths. 1t dispenses with
room a.t1;r- devices In most essential
ii IT is patterned closely after the
lssrf salt Lake ordnance.
sruouuCed that majority OF tne
j 3 is ouD0sad 20 the proposed ordl-
l5----N .r.r1sad even to considering II at
~ lime Last Monday night there was
ms .+ir- and it has been since mt
Do tbsi thfs was to avoid cOnsldera-
NJ tbe ordinance. It Is pracucaIly
lin 10 come up in some form tonight
o. outcome of its consideration IS
a-t IN There are more than fifty
IONS In ogden, and some OF lnesS
MD come properly under the head OF
---iss There is a strOn gSenumenL IN
- community in favor OF having lheSe
5-vrerias stamped out ana II is IIouSlil
IA that higher license would nave inns
.a.set There is a strong sentiment also
- favor of better hours better fesuld-
4-rs and a complete divorce between Jne
---r4rias and saloons so far as lhls
ms the owning and operating OF sa-
i-05s bv the brewery companies.
mis- sentiment is not radical. II does
not represent the ultra prohlbluonlslS on
-ta community. and Of course IT does not
-.7rssept the sentiment of the liquor deaf
-s To comes nearer representing the
-s4sonable business sense of the COM
-rrftv What effect this increase IN the
rsnse fee would nave on the revenues
# the city is not certain. II would mean
tta closing of a number OF places now
fsrg business, but it would also mean
larger income from the saloons still
Naturally. the question promises to cut
q he figure in municipal politics. Mayor
4 L Brewer has not expressed himself
officially on the subject but he IS CldSSed
Is f4voring higher license and better reg
rgti0n. knowing this, William Giasmann
is started a boom in his paper and
Otherwise for Councilman Samuel Thomas
fs- the Democratic nomination. Thomas
understood to fav1- low license.
THIS left-handed boom Tor Thomas by
Fasmanu is clearly understood here TO
Be little scheme TO split the Democratic
r-gguizati0u 20 make il easier for the
Republicans to return to full power IN
he city, Glasmann S being urged by his
aarty associates as the best representa-
i've of Republican principles in the COM
ngnity. and the man most likely to win
the polls Glasmann has his tentacles
1t for something bigger, and is trying
20 s.de-step the lesser office. Those in
a position 20 know what is going on on
he inside of the Republican organization,
assert that Glasmann has picked A. r.
Haywood. president of the Weber club,
for mayor and iona il. Bagley for city
attorney.
Radical reformers are casting about for
man 90 lead them in the coming muni-
eipal fight, SO that the outlook is good
for a tlree-cOrnered light. The reform
els include many VINO are out-and-out for
urOhih.ti0u