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Show ' ' ' " ' 1 " ,; v - .J i , ii... Ji o l i u m, ' - w v V'sJ.w wit Say Tfccj Arc i :yi:: HI jb Taxes czcr Dicfcrc Ttcre - Is i; o Pre fit In Scrvln j zt ' . The restaurant men of the city who aell liquors and pay a license of $100 a year for the privilege claim that their side of the license question ha not been fairly presented to the public . One of them, speaking for the others, said on Thursday . , , , "We feel that we have been done aa Injustice la tho discuss lone of the liquor li-quor license question, and that our si da of the question la not fairly understood" by the public Tor years we sold -wine and beer to ths patrons of our restaurants without paytnar any license. Only one year ago the saloon men made oomplalnc to the City Council and urg ) that a license of 1500 a year bo levied upon restaurants for selling liquor. After several conferences' confer-ences' wita ths representatives of ths Retail Liquor Dealers' association and ths Council committee, ws agreed to ths Imposition of a license tax of $400 a year, and this ws have pal& "Now. after only a year's trial, these saloon toss, corns In and- dmandt that ws pay tns full license of liOO' s year exacted ex-acted of saloons. "Ws do not sell liquors as a money-maklnjr money-maklnjr business, and1 after payln ths $400 a year U cense, we make no money out of 1U We kesp and sell liquors merely as an aocomtnodatlon to ths patrons of our tables. "In addition to the payment of the $400 a year liquor license, we pay a restaurant restau-rant license, a merchants license and the regular Government license, besides the regular property t,ax on our stocks and fixtures. This undoubtedly makes our taxes higher than In any city In the country. ''The saloon men are not living up to their agreement and I am Inclined- to think they are merely working to secure se-cure a reduction of their own license, rather than to get ours raised. "As for the drug-gists, they were Included- In the same agreement. For our part, we endeavor to obey the law and; as before stated, are not making' any money out of the sale of liquors, if the saloon men are losing money It Is not our fault. , "We are satisfied; - however,' to stand on the agreement made one year ago." j |