Word: saloons
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...maintenance of criminals in penitentiaries, etc.- (c) It thus greatly relieves the taxpayers of the state at large.- (d) The objection that it does so at the expense of the cities, is untrue.- (1) Compensation will be made to the cities by the great increase of the saloon tax.- (2) The total amount of city taxation will be lessened.- (x) New York city now pays 46 per cent. of the state direct taxes.- (y) Its share of the payment of the liquor tax will be much less: Seth Low in Evening Post, April...
...will be beneficial, because its heavy penalties for violation are certain to be enforced.- (a) It renders enforcement easy.- (1) By enabling individual complainants to challenge certificates and carry their cases to court.- (2) By providing for the constant and prominent 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...
...Work of hospitals on Monday as a result of drunken brawls diminished one-half: Ibid.- (4) Work of city magistrates correspondingly decreased in Monday sessions: Ibid.- (5) Felonies decreased one a day during Roosevelt administration: Ibid.- (6) Enforcement of the law would drive a large number of the saloon keepers out of business: Independent, Aug. 29, '95, p. 11. McClure's Oct. '95, p. 479- (d) A similar law is in successful operation in Boston, Philadelphia and Washington: Outlook, 14 Sept...
...local option.- (a) Judgment of New York City is not so safe as that of the State.- (1) The population of N. Y. City being 80 per cent. foreign-born or children of foreign-born, is unfit to decide American excise questions: N. Y. Post, 9 Aug., '95.- (2) Saloons control the primaries, and local option would put the city government in the hands of saloon keepers entirely: Independent, 29 Aug., '95.- (b) Local Option is liable to grave abuse.- (1) In Wisconsin the town goes so far as to determine the rate of licenses: N. Y. Post, 25 Sept...
...distressed, the benefactor of the poor, from Brooklyn bridge. Other scenic views are the Bowery at night, pier 13 East River, with burning ware house, Chatham Square by moonlight, the rich man's residence uptown, the river under the bridge, and in Steve Brodie's picture-lined saloon. A radical innovation has been decided upon by the management of the Columbia for the balance of the season. An entirely new scale of prices has been arranged, as follows: Orchestra stalls and loges, $1; orchestra circle, 75 cents...