I have deliberately been posting all the articles that have been written about the Prosecuting Attorney vs the Saloon Keepers. July 14, 1883, pretty well sums it all up and what the problem is. The Prosecuting Attorney evidently gets a fee for every case that he prosecutes and gets a conviction on. The Saloon Keepers are the big prize as he receives $5 per conviction and almost every case is convicted. In an earlier article, I don't recall which week, it is mentioned that there were over 20 saloons in the city of Ste. Genevieve, and the P.A. had a very high conviction rate on all of them - some receiving mutiple convictions at each court session. Therefore, he's raking in the money and really fattening his bank account. I don't know that the P.A.'s in other big cities are receiving the same, but from the rebellion of the saloon keepers in St. Louis, it is obvious that something is going on there, too. Counties are raising the liquor license fees, too, and some of them are quite outrageous for the times. This is why so many of the saloon keepers are going out of business. I thought that I would try and explain why the P.A. is being attacked by the Herald so frequently about his unjust prosecutions. In Misc V, 14 July 1883, you can read the laws and see where the problem lies. Sue