--- title: Improvement Era description: Monthly periodical of the Mormon church, 1897 onward. This library holds the issues of November 1897 to December 1930. authors: - Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations collections: - periodicals tags: - magazine - improvement-era periodical: Improvement Era volume: 18 number: 10 published: 1915-08 publisher: Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations publisher_place: Salt Lake City language: en type: magazine reference: 'Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations, "Why Not Saloon-Keepers’ Liability?," *Improvement Era* 18, no. 10 (August 1915): 927.' source: url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera18010unse transcription: Transcribed from the Internet Archive scan of each issue (the item for each issue is named in the issue's own source); unnumbered advertising leaves are omitted, printed page numbers are kept as page markers. identifier: improvementera18010unse start_page: 927 end_page: 927 rights: status: public-domain basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1915-08) source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera18010unse publication_year: 1915 note: The Internet Archive item metadata carries a blanket "© Copyright by Intellectual Reserve, Inc." notice. The library owner judged it inapplicable because this issue was published in 1915, before 1931; a scan-level notice does not restore copyright. --- # Why Not Saloon-Keepers’ Liability? Why not Saloon-Keepers' Liability? The Times-Review of North Chicago, 111., has the story in a nutshell Anthony Moran, who lived near here and who had beaten his wife at their home outside the city limits of North Chicago on Twenty-sec- ond Street, on a Friday night in February, was arrested, indicted by the grand jury, tried, and convicted of assault with intent to kill, al- though he sticks to the statement that he "did not know what he was doing." He was sentenced to the penitentiary for fourteen years. The month before, Mrs. Moran had written a pathetic letter to her husband's employer. Anthony was spending his money on drink when the family had to have coal and food. The company tried to get the saloons to stop his liquor, and, failing, held his wages for her. Then the husband beat her up. Why isn't the saloon liable for this? Here's a woman half killed, a family broken up, a man in jail for fourteen years, and all for a little money in the till, another remittance to the distiller. How long must the rest of us pay the damages for this dirty business? Collier's Weekly.