Saloon Licenses and Public Order by Editor

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Mountain View, California · May 30, 1906

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 32, No. 21.

Saloon Licenses and Public Order

By Editor

It is proposed to put up the saloon license in Chicago, and thereby get enough money to increase the police force by 1,200 men. It has not occurred to the municipal mind, seemingly, that if a few thousand saloon licenses were cut out altogether the city could afford to greatly reduce the present number of policemen, and then have better order than at present. But modern politics tends to an increase of feeders at the public crib, and necessitates an increase of public money for their sustenance.