Article Title |
What a Liquor License Should Be |
Type |
article |
Date |
1888-05-18 |
Paper |
Utah Enquirer |
Page |
1 |
Creator |
Bacon, Leonard Woolsey, 1830-1907 |
Contributors |
Forum (New York, N.Y. : 1886) |
OCR Text |
Show a liquor license should be now it is of high importance to the clear understanding and well working of a liquor license law that it should contain no provision what ever for a license or small the law ought to show on the face of it not only that i is sot solely or mainly for the purpose of revenue but that revenue is no part of the object of it this is important not only to silence cavile cavils but pre vant honest misconceptions in the public mind which ahas been so belabored and bewildered years by the persistent sophistries sophis tries of the prohibitionists cleared Cle ored of this incumbrance the law would forth unimpeachable as a salutary police measure for the protection of society from the abuses of the liquor traffic the license law thus amended would not only commend itself to good citizens when the question was on its adoption it would have a far better security for good administration the licensing board would not as now be divided m mind between the question of public order and morals and the question of revenue its regard for tho interests of the treasury would never have a chance as now to conflict with its duty to the interests of society in every application for license it could render its decision solely with reference to the question Is the candidate a man of such discretion and fidelity that he is worthy to be trusted for the public advantage with a necessary but very dangerous business from tha abuse of which in unfit hands enormous mis chiefs continually result to society and tho state reu dr leonard W bacon m the may forum |
Reference URL |
https://newspapers.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6d231qw/1402963 |