The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-07-09
Saloons Must be Good Hereafter for
There 10 a New Law Which,
Went Into Effect
July
IT LIMITS THE NUMBER
keokuk Is Only Entitled to Fourteen
Thirst ParIors and no New
Ones Can be Started
Now.

The Moon law went into effect July
4th. 1t limits the saloons to one to
every 1000 people but the excess
will be eliminated gradually.
The major provision of the Moon
law forbids city and town councils
from giving consent for greater
number of saloons than one to each
LOCO in population of the city or
town. For the purpose of this COM
putation the last preceding state or
national census must be taken.
The law contains a provision that
IN towns under 1000 population con-
sent may be given for one saloon. No
fraction of 1000 counts after the first
1000.
In the principal cities OF the state
the appl cation of the ratio would re.
duce the saloons to the following
numbers:
Des Moines, rs; Burlington, %; Ce-
dar Rapids, %; Clinton, %; Daven-
port. 80; Dubuque, Al; Fort Dodge,
a; Keokuk, IA; LeMars, s; Marshall
town, IL; Mason City, s; Muscatine
10; Oskaloosa. 10; Ottumwa. 2o;-
Sioux City. 40; Waterloo, IS.
In these places, saloons now In OBJ
Grafton in full compliance with the
mulct law may be permitted to con.
tinue. but the foregoing saloons. rep.
resent the ultimate limit Of saloons
when the expected process Of elimi-
nation shall have taken place, or un.
I'll the figures shall be changed by an
other census.
These saloons are permitted to con
tinue in business under section Q of
the Moon law. This section provides
that IN all cities and towns where a
greater number of persons than one
to 1000 population hold resolutions
OF consent at the time the law takes
erect, 1t shall not be mandatory for
the city or town council to cancel or
withdraw sufficient number Of such
resolutions to bring the number OF
saloons down to the ratio named, and
that the council may renew such res
olutions of consent as may be In ex-
istence at the time the law goes into
effect, to the person or persons hold
ing them, and to their assignees and
grantees.
This extension Of the tenure of ex-
listing saloons, however, has a long
string tied to 1t in the shape Of GER
tain conditions named In the act. Any
saloonkeeper coming under these con.
ditions loses his right to continue in
business. Once out, he cannot again
secure consent, nor can the council
grant new or additional consent to
any other person to engage in the liq
uor business so long as the number oil
saloons is equal to, or greater than
one saloon to each 1000 population
A saloonkeeper loses his right te
operate If his resolution of conaent
from the council shall become inop
erative.
(a) BY reason Of the person hold
Ing the same violating any of the laws
OF the state. civil or criminal. relat
Ing to the sale or disposition OF In
toxicating liquors.
(b) BY reason of permanent in
junction issuing against such person
for violation of law.
(c) BY reason of civil or crimi
nal action being commenced or in
stituted against said person for viola
ton of any of the laws or disposition
OF intoxicating liquors, and said ac
ton is prosecuted to final judgmen
or conviction had In the court II
which the case was instituted.
I'D BY reason of the city or tow
council withdrawing such resolution
Of consent for cause.
1t will be observed that these pre-
visions involve sufficient opportunit