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Show of the laws governing tho sale of liquor liq-uor in his ctty or county. For tho first conviction of such offense hia license mandatorily is suspended for thirty days, and upon a second conviction con-viction it is cancelled for all time, and never again can a license Issue to that man in the Btate. "With so rigorous a punishment for Infractions or law, the league believes that the man who obeys the law should be rewarded in like measure. Ho should bo removed from the Jurisdiction Jurisdic-tion of a political licensing board; his license to sell liquors should be mude as much a business asset as his personal good name. "If a man prove his worth as a good citizen by. conducting the retail liquor business without breaking any law, and in such manner as to please the majority of the citizens or his community, com-munity, he should be entitled to the regards offered to honest men in other oth-er lines of business. His license should be terminable only upon misbehavior, or a decision by the majority of the qualified voters of his community to dispense with the retail liquor business. busi-ness. No political boss should bo allowed al-lowed to place disrepute upon the re-tall re-tall liquor dealer by forcing him Into politics." THE UNREFORMED REFORMING At last the saloon owners themselves them-selves are alive to tho necessity of setting set-ting their houses in order. Tho prohibition pro-hibition wave, which is sweeping over the country, has made it evident to the liquor people that they must purge their business of the unscrupulous unscrup-ulous dive keeper or suffer annihilation. annihila-tion. With a better control or the liquor business in contemplation, the liquor dealers, under the name of the National Model License league are to meet In Snn Francisco hi May, and a statement just made public discloses dis-closes what they hope to attain through their organization: "Taking the proposition that the chief end of corrective liquor laws Is to take the saloon out or politics," says an official announcement by tho league, "tho National Model License league follows the corollary that tho people are best able to enrorce these provisions when they are on the statute stat-ute books in unequivocal terms, and in such direct phraseology that no court of justice may be able to construe con-strue their provisions either In ravor of or against an offender. That is. as nearly an automatic process as may be secured to eliminate from the held the man who violates law, and at tho same time reward tho man who obeys the law, by making his business safo aud his franchises to sell liquors valuable. valu-able. Is the aim of the men who originated or-iginated the National Model Llcenso league. "Penalties are provided for the man who Is found guilty or any infraction |