NO ALCOHOL IN WILDOMAR, HYPOCRACY ?

During the same year, 1898, of the previous article William Collier and his partner were defending 2 brothers in Temecula who had been arrested for operating a saloon without a license. The saloon was denied a license by the County Supervisors because it was located within 90 feet of the Post Office. The argument given by Mr. Collier was that the saloon existed for 12 years prior with the Post Office being new to its present location. Also previously the Post Office having been located in the saloon in  prior years when operated by Mr. Machado.

Ten years prior to this, 1888, Donald M. Graham held a meeting in his home Wynyate, in South Pasadena to ban the sale of alcohol in the new city of which he was to become mayor. In a letter written to a friend after the meeting he stated that maybe he should have put away the liquor on the side board prior to the meeting room.