Show LIQUOR lea legislation Sl speaking waking of liquor ic legislation I nho cates ot of tile private liceri qi ing estem system which means in ill the last analysis return of the saloon il 11 ono one guise or another or of sale by the drink which means converting our hotels and eating houses into virtual aal saloons give out tile the infer laco that minors will be the lie vie hns of bootleggers and will atford a field tor for thern them to operate lit in u under 1 the state stores plan they dont say however that conditions would be better so tar far as aa minors are concerned under elther either of the other plans propos proposed eti As a matter of fact it if minors are prohibited from Pul purchasing chasing liquor under either plan there will be more or less bootlegging ot of liquor to them dut cut the professional bootlegger will be put out of busl business ness alf it liquor la Is made as cheap as it can be made under tile the state stores plan ills his adult customers will hardly pay tribute to him any longer when they can buy direct from the stores for less money and sales to minors are ale not likely to be sufficiently remunerative munera tive tor for tile the hazzards involved his complete elimination could bo be effected by reducing the r restrictions to minors but whether lawmakers would be justified in legalizing sales to persons under awen tyone ty one Is a question for very mature consideration admittedly state stores will be a failure it if an attempt is made to io raise appreciable revenues from them or to furnish a lot of political jobs but it if they are operated with wi th a view to supplying the un stimulated demand for liquor at the lowest possible cost and are not lot made a political football we be cievo they offer me etie best solution oi of the always perplexing problem of liquor control ather arguments of the advocates of private licensing are as flimsy 1 as the one regarding minors their most malicious one is that in favor 01 0 raising raisin revenues from liquor lales ales there are a hundred ways we can better afford to raise revenues |