| Show QUESTION J NEW NI YORK l No sooner has haa New York fork by an over overwhelming overwhelming whelming rote voto decided 1 tor for a 0 pure and moral city administration nl than the tho question ques lion of ot Sunday eloping cloning of oC the saloons Is 19 brought up for tor discussion and tho the Important point Is to that the opinions on this question are as divided as ever er Under the old regime rel sa saloons 11 loons loans were held open unmolested pro provided provided vided tho the owners i paid liberally literally for tor their defiance de of ot the th law The law upholding citizens naturally concluded that with the ousting of ot the tho old om officers core cers the thc licensed lawbreaking would i cease censo but hat now many of the tho voters claim that list their Intention was not to tomake tomake tomake I make New York a dry lawn but only to stop Mop the Infamous In allous blackmail blackmailIng Ing that was carried on They clamor for tor Sunday beer Strange to say laY Dr Parkhurst a l total abstainer and a n lea ir In tho the reform movement has hoe placed himself on rec record record record i ord as n not opposed to Sunday opening If It the thu salo sale of ot Intoxicants Is confined to beer Leer and light wines wi net He lie argues s thus I consider the tho Germans as a most I valuable part of or our population They want their Sunday Bunday beer with their families The fathers KI go to beet beer gar gardens gardens gardens dens with their wives and children they hear good music surrounded by b i their families rOm Illes It does docs no one any i harm I 1 look 1001 upon the German Idea of at a beer garden ns no one of the tho most moat beneficial examples of oC domesticity In Inthe Inthe I the tho world I 1 have been In them on every oer day tiny In lit the tho week reek and 1 J know about them I There Is much curiosity manifested ted In Inthe Inthe inthe I the position tho 1119 th new mayor will take on the question Tho The New Now NewYork NewYork York Evening Post J oi t predicts that ho will pursue the course he did twenty years ears ago ngo in Brooklyn There says the tho Post the sale of ot liquor to people entering the tho of ot In Brooklyn during the years cars did not disturb the tho quiet of ot the community or Interrupt religious services and this system which nourished flourished for those four years cars under Mr Ir Low and later for two wo years rears under Mayor Inor Schieren without police blackmail satisfied nil all reasonable reason reasonable able people ns as the best beet be t possible solution Ion tion of or the tha problem poaching pending pend In changes chunges In n the tho law It Is sate safe to say that lint time iliac has only strengthened Mr tr Lows con convictions In this matter and that he be will n his old principle of ot action oil all a larger scale ecale If f this prognostication prognostications is s correct New York will continue continuo very erY much as It has been beon In the tho past ex except except except for tor the tho levying of ot blackmail and Ind the reformers will have to commence work anew The moral lesson It was hoped trop cd New York would set the tho rest rost of at the country will ba be to a n great grent extent ex extent exten tent ten I lost Undoubtedly an nn effort will be made mada to o have ho new regulations for tor the sale Mia of ot passed ng the tho next sea ses session ell sion of ot the legislature Whether this I will result in local option for the larger cities or tho the general throwing open of oC all saloons In the State Slate on 01 certain hours on Sunday or o In the retaining of ot the law ns os It now stands matters not The Important point Is 18 that thu tho law aw as 48 it Is IH or whatever It may be bo become become come Is strictly and Impartially en enforced enforced forced according to the letter and the spirit thereof It is la best to enforce even een a n bad law I a ns as far Car as all doing doln so does docs not with higher principles for the enforcement of such a n law Is sure suro to demonstrate Its defects and bring about Its repeal Nothing is ismore Ismon ismore more mon demoralizing than the tho constant evasion easlon of 01 law That fosters contempt cont for tor all law la It breeds the spirit of ot an anarchy archy It Is III responsible for tor many of oC the crimes of our time |
