Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-06-23

raised by the wholesale, 1oDplHs anu
retail houses of Portland. oregon, fgs~f
the purpose Of protecting themselves
against the order issued by the DIS
trict attorney, which requires the
chief of police to enforce Sunday
closing of all dealers,-Pacific Wine
and Spirit Review. San Francisco.
Confessions of the Trade.
The saloon is under public con
domination. No one seems to want 1t
in the neighborhood ia which he
lives; and this is as true of the men
engaged in the wine ana spirit trade
as of any body else.-T. NJ. Gilmore,
President Model License League.
Ii there is one thing that seems
settled beyond question, it is that the
retail liquor trade of this country
must either mend its ways materially
or be prohibited in all places save the
business or tenderloin precincts OF our
larger cities Bonfort's Wine and
Spirit Circular. New York
The edict has gone forth that sa-
looms must obey all laws-that they
must not sell to intoxicated men, nor
to habitual drunkards, nor to minors
that they must not exhibit improper
gambling resorts-in a word that the
saloon must not be a nuisanCe.-T. NJ.
Gilmore President National Model LII
cense League.
You can't follow the Lord and chase
the devil at the same time. IN
tend To rip the place to pieces, tear
out the water wagon" attachment
aud run the place as a straight sa-
loon and restaurant.-W. G. Skidmore,
New York. Proprietor of the Sub
way Tavern.
This talk of reforming the saloon, on
the part of the brewers and Wholesalers,
is ali rot II sounds well in the form or
resolutions, but If they were sincere IN
their resolutions there would not be
dive-saloon in their country one week
from today-President McDonough OF
the Iowa Liquor Dealers Association;
| advise you TO rely less on your rights
and to become familiar as soon as pos
sible with the true feature of your bust
ness. and that is, that YOU are merely
licensed and tolerated evil, looked down
upon by the church. looked down upon
by the decent element OF society ana
constantly harassed by class legislation
Vice President Brann of Retail Liquor
Dealers Association. Fort Worth, teNas.
Free Rum Preferred.
To be honest and not TO deceive our
selves, if we glance over this great eoun-
try We find that prohibition, local OPP
ton high license and unjust legal re-
strictions i'll the ascendency. and
growing more popular in the different
states at the present time than ever be-
fore-Edward l.. Jordan, Washington.
b. G. President of the National Retail
Liquor Dealers Association.
1t has been argued for higher tax
that IL will do away with the dives.
Now. everybody who has given the least
thought to that subject knows TO We
contrary Wine * Spirit News, colagxs'
bus Ohio.
High license does increase the nunSssr
OF unlicensed drinking places. Ii docs
not lessen the number of open salo5ns
IT does not lessen the drinks or the curse,
but really increases them II Is a WINS
key devil in temperance garb-A later
s.a'ernent of MAYOR Hardy of Lincoln,
Nebraska, who in 1881 devised the hrst
'nign license" system in the United
States
The CITY of Chicago has licensed Sl35
saloons the United States government
has collected tax from over lZVo per
sons who have sworn that they are en-
gagged in the sale of wines ana liquors
by retail Is this right and just TO the
law-abiding. heavily taxed liquor dealer
Champion of Fair Play Uiquor jour
nab Chicago, Illinois.
The trade in this section is very much
interested in the fact that Maine Is TO
vote on the repeal of prohloltion m
overthrow of prohibition in Maine
would have a tremendous moral erect
throughout the country.-Bontort Wine
anu 0plfit NhNuipit ~" . - - - -
1911
If YOU can get a tax for liquors and
, heer and only one tax, say $500 to S400 II
will be much more respected than under
prohibition The great trouble with our
$500 tax is that most of the beer saloons
sell liquors on the beer taX-fetef H.
Her fBrewer) Omaha. Neb.
The brewer should stand for temper
ance In drinking and IN other thihss.
People should learn to drink as openly
as they eat and let it be a normal, nat
nral thing causing no more comment
than eating Such a policy Involves de-
parture from the course heretofore gen
orally pursued by brewers, but IL is evil
dent that the old policy was not success
! ful-Wm. Bachns eBreWer)' CleVelaha.
| Ohio.
Local Option, the Saloons Second
Choice.
A licensed law in my honest opinion is
+ the only right way to regulate the liquor
| traffic 1t makes the business more re-
( snectab le when once legalized by The
/ State-Peter f. Her, (Brewer) Omaha,
/ Neb
II is idle now to dispute the validity or
! inyalidity of regulation as pohcy.
| Reeulation is permanent scheme. for
no other reason than that the huhureus
! of millions of tax annually Bathefca
| from the industry presuppose some hino
| of eontrol-LeVi Cooke General Couhsel
| for the Nat Wholesale Liquor Dealers
| Association, June s, 1911
| With the state reallzihg ahyWheIo
LEGISLATORS of the future will be slow TO
| concur with the suggestion of all the
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