Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 April 1911 — MORE WOES FOR SALOON MEN. [ARTICLE]

MORE WOES FOR SALOON MEN.

Judge A. B. Anderson of the United States District court now in session at Hammond toda> ruled in five cases, in which saloon keepers are seeking their second papers, that evidence of the fact that they 'have kept their side tdoors open on Sunday is sufficient proof that the applicants are not law abiding citizens and are not of , good moral character and consequently are not entitled to their second papers. This is the worst blow that has yet fallen upon the saloon keepers of the county as a result of

the passage of the democratic Proctor liquor law. The law itself explicitly states that no saloonkeeper may secure a license who is not a full fledged citizen or in lieu pf that has not resided in the state for at least 10 years. Then along comes the federal court and rules that a man who keeps his saloon door open Sundays is not of good moral character and cannot secure his second naturalization papers.— Hammond Times.