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THE LIQUOR ORDINANCEIt is to be hoped that the legality of the present liquor ordinance will soon tews j be decided in order that business may I etc- go on uninterrupted. In West Berke-rect iey there are a number of saloons con ®;ca- j ducted by property owners, all of whom j Ad‘ have always been good citizens and ltor- who have obeyed the law in every i particular. 1 hese men are now j placed in a peculiar position. They! have paid their licenses and are living J Pr«- up to the strict letter of the law, yet j 5 at they don’t know how soon that ordin- j s 3 ance may be changed. If it is de- i ,ec- clarcd invalid it will no doubt be ap- j 300 pealed to the Supreme Court, and jf -aoo not, then a new ordinance will be I ;ley framed and what it may be no one j ?tlt;j can tell. The majority believe that I red the present ordinance is good and should stand.If works no hardships upon those ■ cu' who desire to obey the law, as the* I *'n- can easily fulfil its requirements, ! t*le Again, in its present form it prevents j § ,re- the illicit sale of liquor in East Berke-1 . I°° ley, as' we do not believe ther» has j ^ lch been one drop sold in that end of town j since the seizures and arrests were! est made there. The men who kept (’s- liquor there are weary of trying to,*n evade the law, and there is not one i o{ who kept a “speak easy” in that end j g, fn of town, who will again try to defy the i ~ at law. The present ordinance is a pro- j ( ra tection for the men who pay a license, I e, and a protection for the State law. jJ-ill There are some of its provisions that, w V in our opinion, are a little too strong, j -c- but then no law was ever made that j te could suit everybody; The law as it j At o- stands is about as good as it can be, I y. but care should be taken in its enforce-! * n ment. The searching of private apart-'11 ments in a hotel, or in rooms above a j store, for liquors, we believe is unwar-' it ranted. Of course, if it is believed j n that liquors are kept in rooms over j s head, and ihat people visit those rooms '• for the purpose of procuring liquor a then they are under the ban of the law. If liquor is kept for private con 1 e sumption in rooms overhend, or I e !1 hind, we believe that it should be ex i r empt from search or confiscation. The mov ment now on foot in West s Berkeley to refuse licenses to saloons f we believe is not warranted. First be-i cause ail of these saloons are kept in an orderly manner and are run strictly in accordance with the provisions of the ordinance. There is not and has not been any trouble in any of the sa-Joons of West Berkeley, and no extra police have had to be paid by the Town of Berkeley on account of the saloons.In order to refuse a license to saloons the Board of Trustees would have to call an election tor that purpose and then two-thirds of the voters would have to declare in favor of no saloens.I nere is but one way to prevent saloons and that is to prevent the manufacture of liquor and this will never be done. Prohibition does not prohibit, but makes the evil all the greater,
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Berkeley Gazette
Berkeley, California, US
Mon, Dec 16, 1895
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