Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1910-09-09
Entered at the Postofice
SOCIAL CLUBS
MUST SECURE
LIQUOR LICENSE
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so construed as to include the right
to sell. =. liquors. 49,, but the
same shall be distinct and separate
business therefrom, and require sep
arate and exclusive license therefor.
THE defendant argues here that
the sale of liquors is a mere Incl
dent to the business of the club; it
is merely incidental also to the bust
ness of a great hotel or to ire
business Of lodging house, but our
law considers it separate business
in these instances.
This brings us to the three
phases of the question that very
few decisions have touched upon,
and those few often very lightly:
First, the peculiar profits of the
retail liquor business.
Second, the attitude of the state
toward the liquor business as q
source of revenue.
iHiIu, lHc HcCesSlty LOT police
supervision of the retail liquor
traffic
There are still other phases OF
the problem, but these are inter-
mingled with those just enumerated
and will be reached later.
AS to the first, it cannot be lis
puted that the retail liquor business
is peculiarly profitable, because of
three main facts the fixed price
per drink, which keeps down one
form of competition. The low
wholesale price, generally speaking,
as compared with the price per
drink. The ease of handling. And
to these there may generally be adj
ded the ordinary purely cash nature
of the retail transactions.
The third phase mentioned re-
quires much more attention It's
consideration may be introduced
with quotation from the dissenting
opinion in the Minnesota club case:
Without proper police super
vision, the retail liquor traffic would
be intolerable. To be endurable it
must be conducted under the eyes
of the authorities; and such super
vision necessitates extra expense
and trouble, the burden of which
should be borne by the traffic in
stead of the general public. In or
der to cover this expense, those
who engage in the business are re
CURED to secure license and pay
for the privilege, an amount which
will fairly reimburse the public for
the extra expense and trouble Incl
dent to regulation. Judge Elliott.
119 N. w. 494.
The second phase is the revenue
phase. The state assumes that the
evils of the liquor traffic are such
that it shall furnish a large rev.
enue, the legislature giving the ben
eft of the doubt to the state and
thereby imposing taxes that seem
to be for purposes of revenue only,
based probably upon the supposed
profitable nature of the business
and the lesser notion that the num-
Der of saloons is limited to so,ne
degree by the tax. With the state.
it is nearly case of what the traf-
fic will bear, for which attitude
there is the ever-ready excuse-the
evils of the liquor traffic d. not
stop with the saloon; they often
merely begin there, and they are so
far-reaching that we must be sure
to collect enough revenue to keep
the balance on the right side of the
states ledger. The idea is often
carried further and amounts to the
assertion of the right of the state to
share in the profits of the bust
ness as a whole. The attitude OF the
legislature of Nevada is indicated
by the state revenue law providing