Democratic Sentinel, Volume 10, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 January 1887 — Thompson's Temperance Bill. [ARTICLE]

Thompson's Temperance Bill.

The bill makes it a crime to sell, barter or give intoxicating liquors in any quantity to any person for any purpose, except by licensed persons and - n the premises described in such license. Druggists are required to pay $5. per month under a bond of SIOOO to traffic in intoxicants for sanitary, culinary, sacramental, medical and mechanical purposes only. Licensed dealers for all purposes are required to pay $25 per month, and give a bond for SSOOO. The bonds are conditioned to keep toe premises ordeflv, to prevent loafing, to banish gaming devices, to abolish screens and painted -windows, to obey the law as to whom, when and. where to dispose of in toxicants, and to pay uli fmes and civil damages. The penalty for violations includes foife ture of license. A written protest by a majority of those voting in the prec net, shall bar an applicant from procuring license fur all purposes and p; event further application on his part, for five years. The traffic, by this bill, can be controlled as to the'person by local option, and w-old be divorced from disorderly houses, gamine, secret crimes and drug store tippling. No appeal is allowed on the protest of a majority, and none can deal in intoxicants until his license is paid for and posted for inspection.