Show 1 I 1 tx W L 1 1 1 I C iiii I 1 I 1 vo 1 a ns daft I 1 ma I 1 1 4 Z 7 4 jm 1 I 1 1 pu 6 at 2 ii S I 1 ZT x L V I 1 z 4 fsr 9 v tt t iti i a 0 n oa egv ylga 7 I 1 V 1 1 k aass aW SS 3 S k x t pt t 77 1 1 I 1 a 11 t r 4 JEl alnes U law aa 1 1 9 ot f t tempe I 1 an I 1 dec I 1 im i 0 lare thai p I 1 a fee will reduce 11 i lwi W Z I 1 they do not el d u ft 9 uon of liquor stege that I 1 chii there I 1 re places where 1 h I 1 i t honor qu 9 I 1 jil can beb h IL I 1 12 ia z j ki experience furnishes e 0 an n to td abd fit the correctness OP opinion ia onas on a as to ike he effects of it ah i increased d oi the umber number of if lied OOM ni it 1 bedIM cuU to show how any cl atty tar where high rat rates es of af bitzi established tife the places where i I 1 liquor 4 do Y ta I 1 bold are am less numerous tn chlcagno when the license tie fee w was t raised from to a was no d decrease decrease ec rease on the contrary the e number of saloons increased with the increase in ift population an and 4 general bustness business every other high lias has shown a similar statte state of facts it if the number of licensed saloons is 13 reduced in any city by an increase of the ibe tax the loss is more than faai maae good by the prosperity of illicit traffic where jhb tax la ig too high it hlll will be evaded institutions variously known As speak easi easiest bEli blind pigs holes in in the wa wall 11 and otherwise take the blace of baloo saloons in which business ld Is licensed and regulated by law what is called the boot leg traffic selling small of at bad liquor at a high price by P peripatetic venders ven ders who conceal their stock of at trade in their clothing on the street Is another device tor for avoiding the payment e of a high h license fee OT dr tax mut but with honest police systems the me illicit liquor trade does not flourish in cities the saloons continue though tho license is increased and thelt number lidber hi is enlarged with a greater population and with the public demand in this view teased based on experience the number of saloons in new york will not be diminished under the raines law illicit trad may flourish h but probably not to 6 4 reat t extent it it is not true that the increase in the license tax under the raines law will decrease the number eff of saloons the revenue will be enormous there are saloons in NO new york and brooklyn their taxes will amount to nearly WAO a year of this sum the state will get one third or in say the amount of taxes paid by the various counties for state purposes will be reduced to that extent I 1 the raines law therefore creates a sort of partnership between the pious temperance people of the Inter interior lorand and the wicked salo saloon an keepers ot the great cities the greater the number of saloons the more tax they will pay one third of which goes to relieve the be counties from taxation taxa Uon this Is the crafty device of the republican mac machine lilue in new york to make the raines liquor bill popular among the antiliquor anti liquor voters by shifting a v vast ast i proportion of alt the state tax from the counties to the cities |