JULY 5 was the date set by the supervisors of San Francisco for reopening the saloons. The license fee has been fixed at $500 a year. Until further notice the saloons may open only from 6 o'clock A.M. to 8 P.M. No bars will be permitted in connection with grocery stores. No saloon will be permitted within 150 feet of any church or school. Licenses will be issued only to citizens, or persons intending to become citizens. Saloons will be open Sunday, the same as on other days. Senator Wolfe appeared in behalf of the grocery stores, in opposition to the prohibition of bars in such stores; but he incidentally spoke against high license because it put "merchants" out of business, and thus would not increase the revenue. In speaking favorably of the traffic, he said that the lack of drunkenness in the city was not entirely due to closing the saloons; but that "the earthquake and the fire had put the fear of God in the hearts of the people, and caused them to realize that they should not continue in their old ways. If the citizens had wanted to drink during the past two months, they could have gone to Oakland." This was a very lame argument. The awful drunkenness and debauchery of the first day or two of the fire, until the liquors were destroyed by the fire and the authorities, showed that the panicky fear and dread caused an extraordinary resort to strong drink. It is a fact, too, that many did go across the bay for drink, until it was necessary to close the saloons. But, if the fear of God has been the cause of the sobriety in the prohibition city, is the restoration of the saloons an indication that this fear is departing? or that the official advocates of the traffic are desirous of seeing it depart? Surely nothing will so conduce to that end as the restoration of the drinking-houses and their natural adjuncts.