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A Unique But Reasonable Suggestion

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Day
12
Month
March
Year
1891
Copyright
Public Domain
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Editor Register: A good dea) has been said receotly, in our city, about saloons, and about a flrst-class hotel. The argument has been against the former and for the latter, but no one has seeined to think that the CuestiĆ³n of either is in any way related to the other. While visiting a town of about 2,500 inhabitants recently, the writer was surprised to see, ainong other evidencea of thrift, inctading waterwork, electric light, paved rnain streel, and magnificent sdiool bu'ldings, tliree hanilsome brick, well-appointed hotels, ihe poorest eqnalling, if not excelling, the best in our city. Accoinmodations to travelers were of the most generous character, while rates were only $1.50 to $2.00 per day. How inch elegant places, with all modern conveniences, could be maintained at all in a town of that size, was a puzzle, but the riddle was soived when it was learned that tliere was not a saloon in the place. All the liquors drunk- certainly niueh less proportionately than in our city- were sold in the four hotels (the fourth only slightly inferior to the others), and the drug stores. Your reeent suggestion to tax the saloons $1,000 for license may lessen their number, but may not help the hotel project. The plan in the little city mentioned above would accomplish both objects- do away with saloons and giveustirst-class hotels. No fair-minded person wil] deny that both ohjects are desirable and devontlv to be witshed for in snch a city as Ann Arbor. Here, then, is the solution: license only hotels to sell liquors, make the poorest hotel pay the heaviest license tax, and compel each to observe the laws regulating tbem. There will then be no cali to invest large capital in a new building which could never pay under existing circumstances, or, if it did, to render worthless the money already invested in the present hotel buildings, which, Ijv the way, are good enough if properly

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Ann Arbor Register