Show ZI TIM LIQUOR QUESTION that the tendency of the Is in I 1 tile direction of a more thorough con I 1 arol of and espionage over the liquor I 1 if not its practical extinction can scarcely be denied of caume coume alcohol always be irad I 1 aud in one avay or another find its w ll 11 Y into the lands of those aho vho ant I 1 I 1 it elthor for personal consumption or to use in mechanical or pur 7 suits but that is not the question it 11 1 1 Is as I 1 the beat methods to be adopts t ed looking to the curtailment of pres ent evils The sentiment in this dl I 1 1 I 1 is earnest sincere anaf avancing with almost I 1 strides A letter from goy I 1 f gil 1 of desota pub i shed in a new I 1 york paper summarizes the results of the experiments in state in the I 1 I 1 direction indicated and shown that I 1 th 0 high license a w which went into efrece on tile of julif last bas I 1 ing number and when to this I 1 important fact is added the additional one that the revenues to the state from the traffic within the same arlod of time have increased from to MOW th importance of the situa I 1 tion from a flu ancial standpoint be I 1 cornea at secondary but besides I 1 this the reports from each of the I 1 Fount les of the state generally agree in stating that drinking violence and crime had considerably decreased 1 that the additional license fees lad I 1 I 1 furnished the means for improving the roads for water works or fire engines I 1 or school houses or other municipal uses and that temperance sentiment I 1 has increased in other words beginning has been made and the people are learning how to deal with a destructive ivd train its evils andio public benefits they are feeling their way toward more I 1 radical measures and are getting edathe bated as to some of most difficult problems of our time them minnesota experiments are I 1 I 1 instruct e so far as they go I 1 those obtained in chicago under the now law where the number of the saloons has been reduced from to and the revenue from licenses reached last yearn an in cream of ODO over that obtained in I 1 1886 in nebraska under a license I 1 fee of 1000 in cities and elsewhere the revenue has grown fivefold five fold and the num berof saloons has been reduced one half it seems I 1 as thorough the success of high license I 1 k I 1 in reducing the number of saloons and I 1 I 1 jn we revenue was an pro fotion to the site of the lice use fee I 1 I 1 within practical lialios lia lits this has er been the caw i a the I 1 I 1 at large las diminished the number of I 1 saloons by ene tt ard and raised the 1 ZI I 1 revenue of the state from that soure 0 1 from 7 ta IF I 1 thesis once eloquent and instructive ze do not need to change our policy in that regard in utah for we now have a license tem the same as that so much com i r 4 V N monde d in minnesota the figure being 11 1 the highest to be found anywhere in 7 the union we act along very well I 1 it 1 and with a well regulated system of local option would be likely to I 1 gain the only other at billable ail lable |