Show AN OMAHA special to a Chicago newspaper details the beneficent work of the new high license Jaw in Nebraska The license is fixed at 1000 per annum in cities of the first class and at 8500 in cities and towns containing less than 10000 inhabitants Every saloonkeeper is required to give a good bond in 85000 to observe the provisions of 1 the law and his application for license li-cense must be accompanied by the statement of thirty resident freeholders free-holders that he is a man of respectable respect-able character Liquor dealers generally gen-erally opposed the law at the time of its passage hut have become converted con-verted to a sense of its usefulness and would not now return to the low license system if they could do so The law is enforced drunkenness drunken-ness has diminished since it went into operation and the saloons are closed at 12 oclock every night and all day Sunday The city of Omaha derives an income devoted to its county school fund of 60000 from licensean increase of 50 per cent over the old system while the number num-ber of saloons has diminished 25 per cent In the smaller towns the law acts as a prohibitory one notwithstanding not-withstanding which fact its chief opponents are found in the ranks of the rabid prohibitionists who seem to think that there is no stop pingoff place between prohibitory laws which can never be enforced I and unrestrained license |