The Alamogordo news. (Alamogordo, N.M.) 1899-1912, 1910-05-05
Approval Which DeadloCks
the Ordinance
''Joker" in Former Ordinance Affords This
Unusual Privilege
Alamogordo, N. NJ, May 4, 1910.

the Board of OF the Village of AamOgOrdO ~ M
AS Mayor of the Village of Aamogordo withhold my ap
proval Of Ordinance No. for the following
The Ordinance is entitled IAN Orddance Amending Section
Ordinance No. 81 passed by the Board of Trustees of the Vii
age of Aamgoro approved by the Mayor the 10TH day
March, A. D. 1910.
object of the proposed amendment toeuce the
be paid for retail liquor dealers license from three thou
sand to thousand dollars per annum.
On the 18th day of March last by unanimous of the
Board of Trustees the for said license fixed
that the 9TH day of April 1910 election
for the purpose of eecting Village officers which election
action the Board in fixing the liquor license at three thousand
dollars fully ratified
1t appears the Aamogordo Improvement Company
has succeeded in getting majority of the Board change
minds and has secured the of the ordinance reducing
from three to two thousand dollars.
The Alamogdo Improvement Company corporation, organ
lied under the laws of the Territory New Mexico has, by
servaton deeds of provided that
shall he sold in the of AlamOgodo, except
block of ground owned by the and from the time
company, has monopozed the
Intoxicating drinks in the town of AamOgdo and is unds
pued fact that time the Aamogodo improvement Com
because Of its said monopoly received rental its aoon
building worth exceed the of thousand
doar of six hundred dollars month Now the improvement
Company complains that afford the
fore fixed by the Board In other words the improvement
the Board in fixing the be paid for the license
take consideration the number of drinks sold
the Board to take into consideration the profits to be derived
from the business then will suggest that the license be placed
sliding SCALE that the be paid for the license shall
be based the profits of the business Then the municipal
traffic it should ordinance requiring its officers
efficient aid in building the traffic in the sale of drinks
AS already stated the Aamogdo improvement Company
monopoly itself for the sale of intoxicating drinks
therefore position complain the former action of the
Board of Trustees. 1t is automatic principle of equity that
party seeking equity SHOULD into with clean hands
has long been the policy the law restrain the sale
intoxicating liquors. The evil of the traffic both in itself and in
its influence recognized by the courts THE theory the law
that it is to be tolerated only: be encouraged
An appeal has been made that unless the license
duced will antagonze the improvement Company Ny
to this is that will at all times both my official and individual
capacity support the company in all its audabe undertakings
the time that the Alamogordo Improvement
Company refrain from antagonzng majority of the people
AlamogordO
have faith in the future Of Aamogordo but willing
the proposition that its prosperity depends upon
success failure of-a saloon.
On this question Of liquor license the issue squaey
ed whether not the municipality the Aamogordo
povement Company shall fix the be paid for liquor H.
Believing do that the fix the of license
vested in municipality and believing that large majority
people favor the by
dnance decline to ax official signature of approval the
ordinance providing for reduction of the be paid
retail liquor license.
BYRON SHERRY