Word: traffics
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...passions of men can be exploited together, by private capitalists for great personal gain, they will be more powerful than the most drastic law that can be framed. The Committee of Fifty tried to secure an experimental bill in Massachusetts to throw all liquor dealing and traffic into a monopoly so that fewer attractions to drink would be offered, and it was defeated by a very narrow margin. The Gottenberg system, which has produced results in Norway far ahead of any other systems elsewhere, has now been started in England by private companies with great success and will probably...
...John Koren, in his lecture last night on "Wisdom and Unwisdom in Liquor Legislation," said that the trend of the wise liquor legislation of the future would be in the direction of local monopolies, established by local option, for the control of the liquor traffic under stringent restrictions and with practically no private profits...
...future the principle dominating wise liquor legislation must be the elimination of private profits and restriction of the traffic through means of monopolies with an absolute control of the liquor business. This system has the great advantage of taking away the main stimulus to the increase of the business, since it will not yield its profits to private individuals...
These liquor monopolies might be either state or local corporations. But while such state corporations controlling the present traffic have many advantages, they are more rigid and less adapted to local conditions than local corporations. These local corporations, in which the profit is turned over partly to the state and partly to the community, adopted at the option of the voters in any given district, have in Norway and Sweden proved remarkably successful in reducing intemperance. There is every reason to believe that in this country also they would furnish the best possible method of dealing with the liquor problem...
...strategic situation that it secured considerable discriminations from the railroads which touched at Cleveland. During the same period, it organized a system of pipe-lines which, with several smaller systems, secured special discriminations from the railroads in 1874. In 1875, when rate wars made uncertain all the traffic upon the trunk lines and broke up the agreement among the pipe-lines, the Standard Oil Company with its pipe-lines was able to exact still greater favors from the railroads entering Cleveland, and by its superior capital, was able to absorb its weaker rivals. . . . Nothing in subsequent years has been able...