Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 February 1903 — PROPOSED NEW LIQUOR BILL. [ARTICLE]

PROPOSED NEW LIQUOR BILL.

Editor W. H. Stanley, who spent Saturday and Sunday in Tipton, gives it as his opinion that the new bill to control the liquor trade in Indiana will become a law. The provisions of the bill are thnt no town or city in Indiana, unless they have a population of 1,000, can procure a saloon, and there shall not be to exceed one saloon for each 1,000 inhabitants of any city. This would limit Tipton to only four saloons and cut all the other towns of the county out. The price for license would bo SI,OOO and with corporation license added would make them cost $250 more in Tipton or $1,250. From the fact that such a law is discrimination, it does not seem reasonable that it would pass but Mr. Staley says that the rich saloonkeepers are favoring the bill and the temperance people of the rural districts who do not desire saloons favoi l uo bill on the belief that Uiei respective localities are sure to have no saloons if this bill is passed.—Tipton Times (detn.) Should this bill become a law Jasper couilty could have but three saloons, two nt Rensselaer and one at Remington. It is not likely, however, the measure will be passed. The season for horse bills is approaching. Remember The Democrat office is the placo to get them.