| Show JIU SALOONS According to a II London dispatch Great Britain Is about to experiment with municipal saloons saloon In the tho In Interest Interest interest terest of ot temperance The Public louse House Trust company under the direction direction tion lion of ot Karl Earl Orey Grey Ore Is about to lease or purchase the tho existing saloons acquire all the new licenses and manage the In the Interest of a the local com communities The company does not ex pact more Inore than five per cent on the In invested vetted vested capital the surplus will be do dot voted to the building of ot churches maintenance of at schools parks parka thea theaters theatus tees libraries bath houses housel and other public Institutions Earl Karl Grey Of 0 Is le quoted as follows In re regard regard gard gull to lo this project No o modern temperance advocate te willing to 10 take lake a practical view of ot the tho liquor problem any an longer believe In prohibition It h hili hes n proved a failure In Inthe Inthe Inthe the United States as es well as aft in Great Is II the only onh weapon with which we here In m England 1 at nt least light the trade entrenched behind of o annual net profits We figure that so long as th the will wall and must drink their so spend nd ingi Ings Ing should come hack back to them Instead of o merely merel still Ull further fattening a n glut private monopoly Ol We hoot haDe to promote temperance Oret ut by revolution izing the entire sal saloon m atmosphere and secondly by b pushing forward th the sa lB loon non Intoxicants A third means mean Is by b giving tea ten and coffe and rood food the tho prominence over Oer beer beor kY and sPit its be ts We shall In the beginning In the rural district Invading the cities by 11 degrees f 4 f Associated with the earl In this n YO ment pent are the Duke Duko of ot 11 i 1 Viscount Isle into horne Home secretary Sir We Edward Orcy Grey M I P I and others As will be seen Ioen tho the Idea Is to Intro dune duct Into Great Britain tho system which lira hat hn been In operation In several Norwegian cities for tor many years and which Is tho the twin brother of o the Gothenburg system It cannot be bo denied that wherever It has hll been In operation for tot Home some time lime It nan has had hall beneficial results It U closes the sa sn saloons loons at nt tho the hours when workingmen are aro most exposed to the temptation of at spending their hard earned money moncY for t r drinks It holds the bartenders reSDon reanon for tor the tho good goo order of a the places where drinks are sold And It gives elves the tho community the benefit of ot the earnings Undoubtedly there arc are ways In which the laws lasts and regulations can enn be evaded but on tho the whole UI aye ays tom tern has line proved d successful Temperance people generally told hold that there thoro is no remedy against tho the saloon evil except total abstinence Anti And that may be true but If It that lit is Im Ira Impossible possible to attain except as Individuals shall bo bl made to see Ice their duty In ih that regard It becomes Imperative to adopt some nemo system of ot regulation for tor forthe forthe the control of ot those thoo who will or r cannot abstain entirely from rota Intoxicants cants and for tor the benefit of o In general We Wo do not believe any more national or effective has beon been proposed than that which now Is about a out outto to be Lo tried bled In Great Britain and It will willbe he be Interesting to see Its operations there thore If It it works well In I It should be ho given glen a n trial In this country countr anti make muke the exploits of o the tho Carrie Na lions superfluous |
