Show THE OR ORDIN ance MS fl ssell mhd saloon keepers of tile city A aie A making an ailcie effort to procure an amendment of the ordinance requiring them to close at ten on tuesday ON caning a petition was presented to tho the city council by mr E I 1 II 11 1 mul play of tile the f firm trail of acer Mai tiby occidental cal saloon clou ashing anft that the saloons be kept open till tall midnight this petition bore up sell of a thousand sig natures natu ies among which were tile the names of our leading merchants bankers banker professional men and am others vr mr lint play phy in support of ol 01 his hig petition r represented ept resented that a fair chance hanc eig is not afforded the saloon keepers to transact act business as tho the two horn bollis 3 fio fi ten 0 clock to mid nightie nigh is tho timo theatre go era r and ad these ictor bing from evening ing parties panics club meetings meeting said ani other festivities desire to imbibe the ordinance does not reflectively stop the salo sale of liquor dui dai ing those hours as tho the back doors of saloon keeper koe iHra sime RIG sought by and a taste for tho the aident is indulged in a clandestine stino and in ine gular manner mi MAI play phy III red that the consid ablo able revenue tho city bicum liquor licenses licen cs should seccie to the dealer a fair opportunity to prosecute his business the plea of the liquor dealers is moro more fully presented in the lie communication ae 48 pub published libed yesterday tho the wrater says thy of weighty lie fuel tant ID DO othir city or of llie lite union liboa blare liquor licenses are arc grant grain el CA aro arc businessman nui in him liuo line required 10 close ti clore by iy ay alit city from rom lit in cows mawst paid liy by these love rind find the bulent disposition manifested by tile alie to lite lie up oil the ordin inces should bo be ol at coo sequence n mill ith lie gentlemen composing tile commit coin mil ice ee on licenses am anil m 0 liopo hope ni ill all the action of the city council upon this application is a matter of interest inte iest the question comes before them in a practical shape and in determining it their ann aim should bt be to deal justly the num nuin her cr of liquor shops in this city wholesale establishments and sa we wc believe is thirty seven loin annual revenue of is del dei ived in the blair se of bednies be enies cs be besides ules a tac ta apon the sale 0 of cigars 1 I more ohis certainly gives them a claim to fair treatment in no other city they say w liquor liquor lieen licen licenses licences ces are granted fd ate dealers inquired to close defoia mid mad jugel the liquor license in tins this city is lied fixed at it a note into unusually kgb a view we vie will mill cliant ably suppose oie to restrict the as ad mill h as possible this is a very proper limitation end bud is ia approved appi oved by ly every right thinking chwen tile the I 1 os friction in hobia was no doubt imposed to tile samo end all vi ill admit that convivial souls would ile bo much better at ironic mth ith their acir families after ten felt at night him and roy roistering in ili dram shops but is not such a limitation of the natuis mr le iho city council thattie eliat alio cannot be effectually stopped so long lom as people are arc found to drink it an and this declaration is founded upon the prohibitive ekker denue of social lef in this and other countries the taste for strong drink bibi in all laces odthe of the human family and cannot be alla alhaj oil cd by any coercive measures the sole province of legislation is to regulate ragul ite tile the traffic and in the performance of this duty care must bo be taken not to a attempt too much undue kostric lions bre are always and evaded by violation ic of the law and this resort in iteld has an immoral tendency experience in this city dibou at that the limitation of hours is tin an attempt at performing too much tile the ordinance is 13 disregarded and a um given to thostee thomb saloon cot keepers ft lie ho ate aie the least scrupulous custom is generally a safe guide and when I 1 we a find that no other city govern government me allt in tile united states stale outside of utah attempts to impose such a regulation wo vie are arc warranted in tile the belief that its enforcement f lias has uni universally been deemed coined impracticable grast stress is laid by the liquor dealoia upon the numerous num nume cious tous signatures attached to their petition and tile respectable character and influx estial position of a large share of the signers perhaps there is not much significance to be attached to this because is i a all know how ready the average american Ame is to sign any paper laid before lim it costs coats nothing and is an easy way of petting nd of an applicant withal there is 11 no doubt flat that 1 t these petition ers to the city council recognize the futility of tile ilia attempt to close tile saloons at the hour prescribed pi described bed by the oi 0 diri doriance ance and as all ju defor fair dealing they oum rather hao the busine 3 done at night open and above board without a clandestine Linde alino to hack dobia anti and herion hence they ask ak a k a revision of of the ples elit ordinance if the friends friend of total temperance ate ale cainell in their n ish to adriea an eat this midnight tuil nin ht revelry let them bestir beiter to get up some r bunter atti action |