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or the operation of saloons. uplift all along the line, whether it is street cars, office Saloon Alive. The general advance in culture naturally effects an However, that is immaterial. The main point is There are two other influences that have much to local ties, on the other well, if there is any difference Every one in Chicago knows that the saloons here are retail liquor trade. One is the fact that the unreason- 147 ing agitation against the business and the social stigma that the brewer is not mainly responsible for the deg- radation of the saloon. If he were, the saloon should stainers to the contrary notwithstanding. extended. The contrary is the case. The saloon of have become worse as the control of breweries over it it is more likely to be in favor of the local brewer. learned professions, the character of public officials, Other Influences Tending to Keep the Disorderly buildings, street pavements, the regulation of the The Rule of "Not Too Much/' do with preventing the complete cleaning up of the much better now than they were twenty years ago. There has been great advance in temperance in the last fifty years, the efforts of the militiant total-ab- today is much better than the saloon of frontier days. But I do not believe there is any difference.

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