The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-03-23

people is sufficient and that ultimate 1v all sections will have this number and they may ask you to amend the present law substituting one thous- and in place of the five hundred, but gentlemen, at the rate the law is working out, most of us will not live to see the day when under the pres ent law New Haven and many other towns will get down anywhere near the five hundred limit. and the pres ent law actually permits an increase
 in Hartford if the county commission necessity is here for the present linn itation bill; one saloon 70 each thous- and of the population is sufflclo ons. One hundred saloons in Hartford 1S
 better than hundred and sixty. One hundred and thirtythree saloons in New Haven is better thaa four hu T. dred and thirty.
 The state of Alabama voted prohi- bition in two years ago ana this year they voted it out again, but in It's place, what? Birmingham, it's largest city, one saloon to each two thousand of the population: license fee $2,500; no screens; no back and side doors.
 We ask only a modified restriction of one to each thousand and believe that the overwh elming sentiment of the state favors it.
 The Rev. Dr. Mauer of the Center
 church, New Haven, supported the argument of pr. Phillips. He said
 said it will take 1S0 years for the law
 to reduce the number of saloons au- tornatically to one in five hundred.
 The state recognizes the saloon as menace and puts restrictions and safeguards upon it.
 It is an entirely different matter from any other buSln esS. The fun- dameDtal error of the present statute
 is that it protects the saloonkeeper
 !, -@of1 v1%
 is correct that under the one in one
 thousand plan, two hundred people
 support a saloon. under present con-
 ditions in New Haven, the situation
 is intolerable.
 The Rev. Father M. A. Sullivan of
 Hartford, supported the bill. In his
 own parish the one in a thousand
 plan would include not more than two hundred men. "You could close the saloons for ten years and the country
 would be infinitely better off," said Father Sullivan, and there was ap- plause.
 Father Sullivan said it would help the business itself to reduce the num- Der by diminishing many unpleasant things which now enter into the busf-
 ness. Does the public welfare de- mand more than one saloon in a thou
 sand people? The speaker said he has no sympathy with the property
 cry. They go into it with their eyes
 wide open and know the chances they take. Let them go into other bust-
 ness and be happy and sleep we'll at night like some men whom he knew
 who had quit. It's a crime for the
 legislature to allow these saloons t.
 multiply. Only a few days ago he
 saw twenty-five boys playing marbles
 at the very doors of saloon that he had tried to close. Father Sulli-
 van said that Bishop Milan favored the bill and the speaker was present
 to advocate it with his knowledge Professor A. P. Herrian of Wesley
 an university said the saloonkeeper
 gets a good deal out of the commun-
 ity and gives nothing in return save
 trouble.
 Rev. Dr. Rockwell Harmon Potter for Federation of Churches said the federation had voted an endorsement
 of the bill and he believed this judg-
 ment is upheld unanimously by the
 people of the churches of the city,
 During the last no-license campaign
 the daily papers of the city had en-
 dorsed the one to a thousand policy
 Every one will say we ought to have less saloons.