Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 April 1911 — SEEMS TO WORK IN IOWA. [ARTICLE]

SEEMS TO WORK IN IOWA.

State Supreme Court Upholds One Thousand Population Unit. A dispatch from Des Moines, lowa, in Wednesday’s papers states that hundreds of saloons in that state will be put out of business by a decision of the lowa supreme court upholding the law which prohibits more than one saloon for each one thousand population in each town or city. We do not know the precise wording of the lowa statute, but w6uld infer that it is somewhat similar to the restriction feature of the Proctor liquor regulation law of Indiana, which some of our bright legal minus in Rens-selaer—-including Abe Halleck, who voted with the brewer senator, Steve Fleming, against the measure—say means one thing and says another. However, we have noticed that our supreme court doesn’t always uphold the views of these attorneys, and it has the last guess at interpreting our laws.