Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1912-05-03
ALLEGED FLAW
IN LIQUOR Law
Last Legislature Said to Have
LOCALIZED Sunday Beer Sales.
NIGER IN THE WOODPILE
Act Restricting Sale of Malt Products
Makes No Reference to
the Sabbath.
> NIGER IN The WOODPILE
Especial Correspondence

st. Paul, April 30.-"Oh, reform,
how many sins are committed in thy
name" The last legislature lit repre-
sented the best efforts of the Mime
sofa primary law, 1 am told-passed
a law designed to curtail the indis-
criminate sale of malt. 1t was drastic
on it's face; it had to be, as the near
beer scheme was on the eve of put
ting every act designed to safeguard
the sale of malt products out of bust
ness. In the absence of law govern
ing its sale blind pigs became numer
Gus, pool rooms f1ourished, the youth
of the land was debauched and drug
stores added to their revenues in a
y manner that made them a decided
competitor of the licensed saloon.
Then came the come back, resolutions
by women's clubs, severe fines and
sentences imposed by the courts and
lastly an appeal to the legislature. In
the meantime, however, the courts
were active and under the existing
laws they seldom failed Of convic-
tain more than the legal alcoholic con-
tent. They were upheld by the SUI
preme court on an appeal In Henne-
pin county especially hundreds of bar
rels Of this near beer we're confscated
and it was even banished from the
cafes and drug stores. The alcoholic
uncertainty of malt worried the sellers
and they concluded that the game was
not worth the candle: 1t was the
same in ST. Paul. The stuff was
barred from soda water fountains by
the proprietors themselves.
!. = !.
Every brewery in Minnesota is a
manufacturer of malt, in fact malt is
constituent part of their product,
and despite the popular idea that it is
rule or ruin with them the proprietors
of the breweries were the first to take
notice of the popular clamor to regu
late the sale of malt. No opposition
was made when the bill was offered
in the senate, in fact that body de-
clared it had their best wishes and il
passed in this form with the officia
signature of Governor Eberhart at
tached:
Chapter 131-S. F. No. 423. An act
to prohibit the keeping for sale, sell
, ing, giving away or disposing of malt
liquors, whether intoxicating or not
except in licensed saloons, and pro
. viding punishment therefor. Be il
enacted by the legislature of the state
of Minnesota:
Sale of malt liquors except in II
censed places, prohibited.-Section l
The keeping for sale, selling, giving
away, disposing of malt liquors, wheth
er intoxicating or not, in any Other
place than a licensed saloon, is here
by prohibited.
Violation a misdemeanor.-Sec 2
The keeping for sale, selling, givins
away, disposing of malt liquors, wheth
er intoxicating or not, in any othel
place than licensed saloon, is hereb!
declared to be a misdemeanor anC
shall be punished by fine of not les!
than five dollars nor more than on,
hundred dollars or by Imprisonment
in the county Jail of not more thai
ninety days. Provided, however, tina
drug stores may keep and sell sucl
malt liquors for medicinal purposes
only. And provided further, that moth
ing herein shall prevent the manufac
turers of such malt liquors and thu