Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1913-01-17

With a 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-
tions for continuing and extending
the work of the farmers institutes.
These institutes are of great value
and may be increasingly SO. With a
view to economy and increased e.
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 seem
advisable.
Panama-Paeific Exposition.
The opening and commercial use of
the Panama canal is to be celebrated
by an exposition, to be held at San
Francisco, Cal, during the year 1915,
to be known as the Panama-PacifiC
international exposition. Most of the
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 it's people be represent
ed at this celebration of so important
an event in our country's history. and
it would afford an excellent %oppoTtun-
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 8 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
Objectionable features of this bust
ness would be removed by limiting
the number of saloons in a given town
or area according to population. | 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
n 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 w bust
ness and having his interest localized
in the community, is bound to be
more regardful of the law and rules
of t~decency than a brewery company
having large iterests elsewhere TO
which the local saloon is an incident.
l recommend the enactment of a law
prohibiting any brewery company, or
officer, director, stakeholder or agent
of any such, from owning IN interest
in any retail liquor saloon, or ~loaninG
or advancing any money or thing OF
value, except goods sold in the regu-
lar course of trade, to any retail liq-
uOr dealer.