New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1853-06-11
RrM LICENSES IN orR CITY.

We have devoted a column so per day through the
last month to fair and lucid though brief report Of the
proceedings from day to day before the Aldermen aud
Assistants of the several Wards Of our City, sitting as
Commissioners of Excise aud in that capacity granting
refusing licenses to the keepers Of Po-terHouses
Rumselng Groceries and other manufactures of ruf-
fans, druIkards paupers and criminals throughout our
City We have done this in order that our readers may
have clear idea Of what the License system really is
what Of men it clothes with the fearful responsible
ty Of selling Alcoholic poison TO those who apply for it,
and what prospect there is that the License System can
ever be administered and enforced render it
other than inqutOus and demoralizng We trust many
Of readers have followed these reports 60 as be
able TO henceorth the walders standing query
why don't you Temperance men undertake some
thing practical The License Laws We nOw have are
every good they faithfully enforced Why don't
"you devote your energies securing such enforce
"mentW We think no candid person vino has followed
the Licensing operations of Aldermen through the
last month viii again make such inquiries Because
l. We couldn't secure the enforcement ofthe presen.
License Laws if We were TO devote all our energies
TO thar single object. There are AZ least seven Wards
in our City whose Aldermen could not refuse licenses
to applicants destitute OF the character and accommp
dstons contemplated by our License Laws, without
counting political maTtyrdOm lie. the Aldermen Of
the LIST, I'D, Iyth With, Nth aud XIXth Wards of
our CRY refuse licenses TO all who Gin the contempla
ton Of the laws not fix persons 70 receive them
and they could hardly 1--we in their respective Wards
and need again hope obtain any oce therein
The Rum interest in each of those Wards is strong
enough put out and IN whom peases and exercises
much wider and freer discretion IN licensing Alder
men than they do in licensing RumseIlers
,. The License laws were never made 20 be en-
forced. We know this VIII seem harsh buJ consider
the facts IL is one Of their cardinal PRINCIPLES that
Liquor shall not be sold On Sunday, and ye, three
ourths Of the licensed dealers DO sci on sunday as is
perfectly notorious Nov if the trainers Ct the Lax had
really reaEi TO stop he SUNDAY trac ley would have
enacted provision LAe h's: Any licensed dealer
who sells liquor u, Sab5a b. o. opens bis place on
that day, shall pay Enc Of fty dollars Tor each and
every ofense-one half OF EAics snail be PAID 70 the
"reron who informs agans, him and prOcures The evi-
denee necessary oinsure his conviction Such pro-
vison would shut ever run hole IL the STATE by Satar-
day midnight and keep it shut I'll Monday morning.
But nothing Of the kind was enacted because the sun
day inhibition vas never meant 10 be enforced
). The Police Captains know and the Aldermen can
hardly help knowing that at least hall the places licensed
are kept by thoroughly abandoned characters and are
the daily resorts Of thieves and burglars shameless hAr
lots, rowdy boys In full the road TO ruin aud
pplers who have already reached that goal These are
licensed With the perfect knowledge Of al concerned
that they ought not 20 bcthat they just such per.
sous ~ the License Laws were os,elspy framed and