The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1913-01-16

with q view to Improvement In our
road laws on such comprehensive
lines as may enable us to build per
manently good roads in all sections
OF the state.
Farmers Institutes.
You should make liberal appropria.
tons for continuing and extending
the work Of the farmers institutes
These institutes are of great value
and may be increasingly SO. With .
view to economy and increased eff
ficiency this work should be conduct
ed in cooperation with the proposed
agricultural education extension work
in connection with the college of agri
culture and mechanic arts. Provis.
ion should be made for so called short
courses or schools of instruction In
improved methods of farm operation
In the different localities. and such
extension of the work as may seen
advisable.
Psnama-PaciTc Exposition.
The opening and commercial use OF
the Panama canal is to be celebrated
by an exposition. to be held at Sar
rlduStoCo, Nal, uuIiub tue ycdi 1910
to be known as the Pacifi,
International exposition. Most of thu
states will be represented there. and
many, no doubt, will have suitable
buildings on the exposition grounds.
1t is desirable and fitting that South
Dakota and its people be represent
ed at this celebration of so important
an ven in our country's history, and
it would afford an excellent emporium
ity for exhibition of the states re.
sources. attractions and advantages,
where so many. not only from the diff.
ferent states of the union, but from
the various countries of the world
will assemble.
Liquor Traffic Regulation.
The need for strict regulation and
control of the sale of Intoxicating
liquors is now recognized and acknow.
lodged by all. differences of opinion
being confined chiefly to the merits
of different methods. The law passed
by the last legislature requiring liquor
saloons to be closed from 9 O'Clock
p. m. to 6 o'clock a. m. has worked
well and, so far as ! am informed
has generally been observed and obey
ed. 1t is a wise provision. Forbid
ding the sale of liquor late at night
it eliminates some Of the worst feat
ures Of the traffic. Some of the more
Objectionable features of this bust
ness would be removed by limiting
the number of saloons in a given town
or area according TO population. l sug
gest the enactment of a law limiting
the number Of saloons to not more
than one in a town of 1000 or less,
and not more than one additional for
each additional 1000 of population,
Some of the liquor dealers themselves
have expressed approval Of this plan
and there should not be much oppo-
sition to such a measure.
Breweries and wholesale houses
should not be allowed to own, have
an interest in or control saloons or
places where liquor is sold at retail
The local man, owning his own bust
ness and having his interest localized
in the community, is bound to be
mor r~egardful of the law and rules
Of decency than a brewery company
having large iterests elsewhere to
which the local saloon is an inciient
/ recommend the enactment of a Law
prohibiting any brewery company, OIL
officer, director, stakeholder or agept
of any such, from owning any interest
in any retail liquor saloon, or ~loanine
or advancing any money or thing OF
value, except goods sold in the regu
lar cours of trade, to any retail liQ'
uor dealer.