Jasper County Democrat, Volume 9, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 March 1907 — MEEKER AGAINST HIGH LICENSE. [ARTICLE]

MEEKER AGAINST HIGH LICENSE.

The thousand dollar license bill was killed in the lower house of the legislature last Friday by a small majority. Among those republicans voting to kill the bill was Representative Meeker of this district. Some eleven democrats voted to save the bill, but the republicans, who have a good majority, voted the other way and it was laid quietly aside. Now, with their usual consistency, the republican papers are howling that “the democrats kdled it.” Mr. Meeker, in voting against the measure, no doubt voted against the wishes of nine-tenths of his constituents, yet the action was in line with some of his other votes last session. The bill really had much to condemn and little to commend it, and a new thousand dollar license bill that eliminates the school teachers from it, confines licenses to cities and incorporated towns and gives all the license to such city or town, has been introduced and reported for favorable action. If it wins there will be few regrets that the old bill failed to pass. Later —This has also been killed, Representative Meeker voting against it, although he has repeatedly assured his constituents that he would vote for such a measure.