The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1869-08-21

We desire to call the attention of
every citizen of Evansville, who has
any regard for Der good name or her
future prosperity. to the follow
ing articles which we clip from the
Courier Of yesterday. A more
vanton and vicious attack upon
the reputation of the city has never
been made. 1t is deadly DO" =
her very vitals. Let the programmes
of the Courier. ineendiary be carried
ont and Evansville would become
stsncb in the nostTils Of every good
and law-abidiDg citizen in all the
land We do not believe any respect
able number of Germans can be
Gonnd who will endorse the abroga-
ton of the CHRISTIAN Sabbath, as ad
voeated by the Courier, and consent
TO place the city, bound hand and
foot. under the control of those
saloon-keepers, who disregard both
God and man and trample with i'm
punity upon the feelings and rights OF
their neighbors.
We are no advocate for a Puritan
zeal observance of Sunday. We are
in favor of the largest liberty of con-
science, opinion and action. 1t is pre-
cisely because some of cur citizens
are opposed TO this liberty that they
advocate the violation Of the law. The
proprietors of saloons, whose houses
are orderly and quiet, have not been
interfered with to any extent IN our
city, even in the sale Of liquors on the
Sabbath. The thirsty have been per-
mitted to quench their thirst at the
fountains Of Gambrinus, with none to
modest or make them afraid. No one
has manifested any disposition to dis
turb them. They have. neither. been
prosecuted nor prosecuted. 1t is
only when the rights and
feelings Of citizens who believe that
the Sabbath. as an ordinance Of God
should be observed differently, have
been disregarded and wantonly IN
suited by noisy demonstrations and
boisterous conduct in some Of these
saloons, that the law has been invoked
to preserve peace and quiet. The
conduct in some of these establish
ments has been shameful, and it il
wonderful that the patience of thu
Christian portion Of the community
has not been exhausted long ago. il
is for keeping dis0rder}y houses and
trampling under foot the rights 81
professors OF Christianity that pros.
ecutions have been instituted. If al
who sell beer or intoxicating liquors
in the city desire to make the
cause of taese disorderly houses
their own cause, and strike at the law
in behalf of those who violate mo-
only the law against selling intoxi-
eating liquors on the Sabbath-but
all laws for preserving good order
wish to join issue with the friends Of
sobriety, order and deeency, we are
ready for the contest, and we are con-
fdent that good citizens generally
will not be found shrinking from the
struggle If a man wishes to drink a
glass of beer on Sunday we have no
more objections to his going quietly
and doing so than we have to another
man purchasing glass of soda water,
a plug Of tobacco or hiring a horse at
livery stable. But when large
crowds of men congTegate in particu-
lar saloons and become boisterous and
MISUNDERSTANDING songs, shouting,
and using language that is disgusting
to gentlemen and ladies passing along
the street.-the offense deserves recog-
milton and punishment. To our mind
this is the rule that should guide off
GERS in the discharge of their duty,
and we believe they have been acting
under this rule. JIG they have made
no discrimination arraigning indis-
criminately the orderly and the dis
orderly-we think they have commit
ted mistake, and should not repeat
it. But what madness and folly tC
say that all law should be disregard
ed, and to denounce the Grand Jury
for doing what is required by the sol
emn oath of the men composing It'll
We especially direct the attention Of
those business men whose prosperity
depends so much upon the good name
of their city and the enforcement OF
the laws, to the Comter's direct and
atrocious attack upon the Grand
Jury. Without the Grand Jury,
crime would stalk unblushingly
through the land, and virtue and de.
eeney be banished from society. The
attack of the Courier upon the laws
enacted for the preservation Of order
on Sunday is an attack upon their
business. We warn them now. that
if the assaults of that paper shall he
successful in breaking down the laws
they will at the same time crusl
out their prosperity. We be
lieve the statement of the Courier
that half the Wholesale houses In tn
city do a iobbing business on Sunday
to be gratuitous SANDER upon TIL
very men whose patronage keeps it il
existance. But We do not intend t.
comment at any length on the posi-
ton taken by the Courier this morn
ing. The following are the extracts
to which we have alluded. and are al
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