Show j ABOLISH EVERY SALOON Bat Do Not Violate the Golden Rule in So Doing i BY J. H. PAUL 1 I To the Editor of the Independent Your request for my humble views on the question that has suddenly become our leading issue prohibition will be acceded j though the convictions expressed herein may have no merits other than the impolitic ones of candor and plain The Saloon Must 1 all saloons should be No liquor drinking away from home should be the only or the best way of securing this result is by absolutely the manufacture and sale of spirituous liquors within this then let us have such 3 But as I the saloon can be abolished without such a destruction of property and such an interference with individual liberty as are necessarily implied in absolute by all means this middle which might be called is the one that should now be that absolve wherever has tended to defeat its own j the writer is content to urge the Prohibition of saloons and the control or high license of plain depots the and restricted sale of The Lincoln Temperance There is in operation in a plan that is said to give There the man cise board a penal bond of and a petition signed by at least thirty resident freeholders of his indorsing his But upon cause shown by any residents who the license to sell will not be It is made unlawful for any licensee to or give away any or vinous liquors on certain or on any day except between the hours of y a. m. and 7 p. or to any person connected with a place of or to and insane Guardians Can Either the parent or the guardian of minor children may notify any licensee not to sell or furnish to them any intoxicating loss of the license is part of the penalty for disregarding such Women Women of low class are forbidden to enter the premises of these card pool are prohibited any or subdivision of room in which liquor is or in any other or outhouse over which the licensee has any control or Plain and No blinds are permitted on the nor musical instruments or pictures within or about the No free no only four and not even are allowed at these Minors Cannot Buy at AIL It is made unlawful to sell or give under twenty- liquor to any person one years of age to sell or furnish any intoxicating liquors to any such minor upon any written or verbal Clubs Without Incorporated or clubs and associations are forbidden to sell or furnish liquor to any person Persons without a license found in possession of liquor for the purpose of selling it are guilty of a Druggist permits are issued for the sale of alcohol upon petition and bond similar to that of other Two Other For best results two other regulations seem to the writer the requirement that no liquor be drunk on the in the store or in any public place and the sale of only inspected and certified pure and unadulterated A Better To those who think they prefer prohibition to anything else it may be pointed out that some way more excellent is really More satisfactory than extreme pretense under any name is the scientific and simple Gotten-berg In this plan the saloon is and the state itself dispenses fermented beverages in original which must not be broken on the in the or anywhere in This plan is fair to It is said to work to reduce to a minimum the evils due to drinking and drunkenness and to furnish a large Why Delude is good in but wherever tried in other places it has miserably If it were what its name its virtues might atone for its confiscation of the property of the owners of breweries and to say nothing of the lesser and perhaps deserved losses of saloon But the breweries go right on under The product is exported to other whence similar perhaps these identical are so that we have here something that should astonish philosophers perpetual motion at last found whereby railroad and express companies and unscrupulous reap an un- merited but golden harvest in spite of the Since liquor is still largely consumed under why pretend that it is Why deprive the state of an enormous revenue simply to enrich a few crafty people who evade the Why wink at this illegal traffic of liquor at great gain to shrewd lawbreakers from other weak who are willing to pay high license And since the good in prohibition can be better attained by the abolition of the saloon and either the state or the system of inspection under bond and license by means of plain dispensing why sacrifice a fact for a name an equitable reality for an unfair deception that simply transfers the state revenue to pockets of What of The Golden But if prohibition could succeed and the manufacture and i J tion of alcoholic liquors could be made to cease as a fact and not merely as a what would J become of confirmed Sonic of them would perish miser- i ably without alcoholic i j surely the prohibitionists do not propose to kill off these people Nor drive them from this state nor even to make law-breakers of I say to the picture yourself in the place of one of these you think that sudden deprivation of what had become to you a necessity of would be the J course of either wisdom or human How would the infliction of or suffering upon these unfortunates consist with the glorious ye i would that men should do unto do ye even so to Or sup pose you were a who years ago had come from the a graduate in the science and art of and had invested your all all in what was to you and to the customs of your own people and country a perfectly proper as well as legitimate business the manufacture of beer would you think fair now to be deprived of your property by legislative without any and even without process of some wise men will Who authorized you to say that vinous have legitimate use as beverages Do you know better than than the Savior of than the almost universal of jaded human There are Germans and other foreigners to whom the use of such beverages is second nature and to whom beer or wine as they use seems relatively |