The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1909-01-23

tnOugnt! HOW 90 we COmpafo AZ 1Ho
matter of the rate Of liquor license
charged with the other States OF this
Union? Illinois provides that the low
est license for selling liquors shall be
not less than $500 per annum, Nebrasks
fixes the sum at $1,000 per year. San
Francisco has at least q $1,000 license,
Seattle, Wash, has a $1,000 License,
Tacoma likewise, Omaha, Nebraska.
$500. and l might go on and enumer
ate all of the cities from 5000 inhabi
tauts up and | would not hnd a sinal,
city outside of Nevada that charged the
ridiculous sum of something like sl5C
per annum for the privilege of selling
liquors.
Give us q law fixing the minimum
license fee for selling liquors at $1,000,
the minimum fee for conducting 6
gambling game at $4,000 per annum
make all of these licenses payable in
one lump sum-, yearly in advance, and
not quarterly as now. Make it unlaw-
ful to license any business disposing OF
the necessaries of life or any trade pro
fession or calling. Fix a minimum
value per mile on railroads not less
than the valuation fixed upon the
property of the individual citizens Of
this State. This would reduce the
number of saloons in Reno from "a,
from which a license of something like
SIG. 1000 to SIS. 600 is derived, to about %
saloons from which the much larger
fee of $25, 900 would be derived, and
the fact that $1,000 is at stake if the
license is forfeited will put the pro-
p~rietors on such good behavior that al
least so per cent Of the police regula.
ton can be dispensed with, thus killins
two birds with one stone, viz: increas.
your revenue and decreasing the cost OF
municipal regulations. In other word
make those who dance pay the fiddler
and give the people engaged in catering
TO the thousands who go to make NJ
our community the right, without add.
ing the costs of municipal licenses t.
every article Of consumption or wear
necessary to make them comfortable,
aud you will materially reduce tn.
cost of living and will receive the
necessary funds to continue the ad.
ministration of State and county from
the sources from which it should come;
and save TO the 14.15ths of the people
going. who make your city what it il,
the necessity Of moving put and int
a community where living is cheaper.
They are not doing il?
Well, just call up the correspondent
for the SENTINEL and ask him to show
you. if you do not believe they are do
ing it and they will continue to NOV,
out unless the expense of living in this
community is materially reduced. anc
that soon.
Within three days we had one of the
oldest citizens of this part of the State
make the remark to Us, that unless
living expenses were loon reduced here
he would dispose of his holdings, if he
could. aud locate in a place where he
could live cheaper than here. He was
not going to bear the burden mucl
longer for the railroads, the gambler
and the liquor dealers. by paying tn,
license for the privilege Of having hi
children's shoes half-soled in order thai
gambling houses paying a license OF
possibly $500 per annum might make
$1,000 per annum, while he earned
$1,000, and the railroads declare millions
per anpum in dividends while he
struggled to make both ends meet.
Give US an assessable stock law. o
minimum liquor law of $1,000, a mini
mum gambling law of $4,000 per game,
and a law fixing the minimum assess.
ment Of railroad property at exactly
the same per cent of value as is assessed
against the individual. and provide that
no license shall be exacted from any
man doing a business in the necessities
Of life and from the trades and occupa-
tions and professions, and you will
have put Nevada on the high road to .
commonwealth equal to il not ahead Of
most Of theother States In the Union.