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Minnesota High License

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Parent Issue
Day
5
Month
September
Year
1888
Copyright
Public Domain
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In that state a new law went uto effect a year ago making the license a minimum of $],000 in citieë over 10,000 inhabltants and $500 in other places. Under their old low Hcense tliere were 2,806 saloons in the state bilt the flrst yenr of high llcense cut this numlier down to 1,697, nearly one-liMlt less. The public reven ue from the 2,806 was $850000 while the 1,597 pald $1,100,000. Uut the best of all is that the reports show less expenditure for drink, fower arrests for drunkeness, less crime, and no saloons at all In several counties. 440 saloons in SL Paul and Minneapolis were closed up and they were the low grogeries. The Pioneer Press say of the results: Permanency of thesystem Is insnred, and the saloon-keeper do not ham; on. In the hope that another electlou wlll brlng a change In atlülrs. It raay be saiU that 'the people of Minnesota are more In favor of high license Ulan ever. It has bronght nothbut bencilt to the state, and ha, by lts practical worklng for more than a year, proven lUelf to be a wlse, Just, and most successful measure. The old "Harrison Almanac" of 1840 contains a great deal of matter that is strictly pertinent and timely for the second Harrison campaign. For instancc, these questions and answere: " Who wlll vote the Van Huren ticket !'' "All who wlsh to see the prlce of labor reduced to a level wlth that pald In Knrope. All sach as prefer the lnterests of the officeliolilera to the lnterests of the people." "Who wlll vote the Harrison ticket? ' "All who b9lleve that the condltlon of our workingmen has been beller than that of the worklngmen of Kurope, and who wlsh to have It rem al n so.'1

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Ann Arbor Courier
Old News