Word: locally
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...cent.- (b) It will eliminate nearly all the objectionable small saloons and dives.- (1) They cannot afford to pay the high tax.- (c) It will reduce the number of other drinking places.- (1) Hotels and restaurants selling liquor pay the same tax as saloons.- (d) It provides for local option in towns, but not in cities...
...display of the tax certificate.- (3) By throwing saloon interiors plainly open to inspection during hours when sale is forbidden.- (b) It renders non-enforcement most dangerous.- (1) Remissness officially is severely punishable.- (c) It removes motives for nonenforcement.- (1) State-appointed officials cannot be bribed or intimidated by local liquor interests.- (d) It was rigidly enforced last Sunday in New York and Brooklyn. (Papers, April...
...Leading features are based on fallacies.- (a) It provides for high license.- (1) High license will not increase cost of drinks.- (2) It only drives out small dealers and concentrates trade with larger ones.- (b) It grants local option to country towns, but not to New York City, Albany, etc.- (1) Small towns will reap the benefit of a part of the total...
...contains many injustices-(a) 33 1/3per cent of the tax goes to the use of the State and not to the local municipalities.- (b) Certain parts of the State must pay higher licenses than others.- (x) New York, Kings, Erie and Munroe Counties pay higher taxes than St. Lawrence, Clinton, Chautauqua and Cattarugus Counties.- (c) Certain countries are deprived of the right of local self-government.- (d) It is not the part of the State to coerce the individual.- (e) This bill does not allow the people to vote on Sunday license.- (x) It closes the saloons on Sunday...
BOSTON, April 10.- Local forecast for New England, Friday: Fair, continued warmer, westerly winds...