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Iowa Saloonkeepers In A Fix

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Parent Issue
Day
24
Month
July
Year
1895
Copyright
Public Domain
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An important victory for the temperance cause in Iowa was gained by the decisiĆ³n oL Judge Spurrier of the district court in the Pressman saloon injunction case at Des Moines. He decided that the consent petition under which the Des Moines saloons were running was not valid, and that the injunction asked for, restraining them from seliing liquors, should be granted. The law requires that the petition asking the opening of saloons shall be signed by a majority of the voters at the last election. This would require 5,147 signatures in Des Moines. The saloon men claimed to have 6,059, but their petition was easily discovered to be outrageously stuffed. Some names were signed two and three times; others were fraudulent; others were of men who had not voted at the last election. On these grounds 1,494 names were objecttd to and the court decided the petition to be fraudulent. The saloonkeepers have just paid the first quarterly installment of their annual "m-ulct finos," and there are likely to be further legal complications to recover this.

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Ann Arbor Courier