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Show RESTRAINTS ON THE LIQUOR TRAFFIC. Just now there is a howl against saloons where liquor is sold. No one expects by the cry to close those places; many who raise the cry would be grieved to see them closed, for they are a substantial sub-stantial source of revenue. Two men have been shot in saloons lately; a good many have been shot outside, but the outsiders do not count with a special class of moralists. The best way is to take a sensible and practical view of the matter. It is notorious that a good many men are permitted per-mitted to keep drink houses who ought not to be M gives a man a license to sell intoxicants, it is upon ( H an implied contract on his part that the place he t, " H proposes to keep shall not be a menace to the ' ' i M peace and order of the city, or to the safety of ! , M those who may be in the vicinity of the place. ', H When a young man becomes an employee of a ,1 M bank or mercantile house, no matter how blame- ' . H less he may be, no matter how upright his life I , ' H may have been from the cradle up, he has to give ' H a bond to guarantee his employers against loss H through him, or the house has to insure itself ' j B against loss through the employee. But the city ' H will give almost any one a license to sell liquor, . I H placing no restraint upon the holder of the license. , I Why should not such men be compelled to give H a bond to insure the city and individual against H damage and danger because of the existence of j ' H such a place. There are a few men engaged in ' i H the business in this vicinity who could give no ' f i'H such bond, and that fact is a certain proof that ' 1 . tH they are unfit men to hold a license from the city, jM to pursue without restraint their calling. j fl The sale of liquor cannot be stopped, why not i jfl place such restrictions upon its sale as will insure ' (B the peace of the city and give neeeded protection ,' S to peaceable people in the vicinity of such houses? i' ' . -ti |