A Solution to the Liquor Problem
An organization called the Model License League, having its headquarters in Commercial Building, Louisville, Ky., presents what it calls a “Solution of the Liquor Problem,” in the outline of a model license, one so framed as to make it of great interest to the liquor dealers themselves to keep it, making licenses transferable, fining minors who represent themselves to be over eighteen in order to procure intoxicants, and taking the saloon out of politics. All this might be good, if— To us it seems that the very best way to regulate the saloon is to abolish liquor selling, and let the men go into other business. If license must be, the model license might be well worth trying, but it does not seem reasonable that a man should want11to even consider the licensing of that which is more productive of crime than anything else which exists.