Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1871-08-10
The Cincinnati Sunday Liquor
Law.

Law.
In Cincinnati there has been for a
long time an ordinance to prevent the
sale of Intoxicating liquors &c, in
the city, the law is as follows:
An effort has been made to repeal
this law and upon the saloons and
Music Hall on Sunday. and this repeal
ing ordinance on Friday evening last,
passed the lower branch of the Com
mon Council by vote of Yeas 26. TO
16 Nays, but this does not repeal the
law, for it is stated in the city papers
that it is not at all likely the Board of
Aldermen will pass the repeating or
dinance and unless they do, the Sunday
prohibition law is still in force, and it
is to be hoped the Mayor and the City
Officers will put the Sunday ordinance
in full force
The following is the ordinance re-
pealed by the Board:
! Be it ordained etc., In view of the
repeated violations of the municipal
police regulations by houses of pub
lie entertainment, that it is hereby de
clared 10 be unlawful for any keeper of
any tavern, coffee house. ale house,
! beer house, porter house, restaurant,
confectionery, or drug store, except
for medical purposes, to sell, barter or
give away, or cause to be sold, bar
tered or given away, upon Sunday.
any ale. beer, porter or other fermcated
or spirituous liquors, or suffer the
same to be drank upon, in or about
his, her or their premises.
Mr.. A. E. Jones, a Councilman,
made very sensible speech in Coun-
ell against the repeal of tue Sunday
law which was replied to by little bum
mer Jimmy Fitzerald. All the speech
es made by the repealers were ol
about the same character, and to give
our readers an idea Of the argument
and kind of logic used by these anti
Sabbath orators, we present briei
extract from one of Jimmy FitzeralP S
whang doodle orations:
"A very eloquent, studied speech o
the gentleman from the Twentieth
ward is several hundred years too old
IL would have been just the thing to
subdue a refractory chara ter that came
/ out in the Mayfower. The witch bur
, ners would have applauded it. Or
were we heI e like the old sturdy Scotch
man, two hundred years ago, to pas
judgement upon some wretch who wa!
prompted by the good looks Of his wifi
} to kiss her on Sunday-Or who did no
consider it offensive to the Lord o
Creation to have a good roast of bee
cooked by his maid servant on til.
holy Sabbath-this clap trap wOulc
have been exactly right. The SILLY
fear that pervades his soul al out de
stroying our Christian Sabbath, up
roofing our institutions and destroy.
ing our government by the passage o
this ordinance, is all bosh.
NJ. Beran. an other m membcr of thC
City Council, who is also repeale
and who believes in unrcstrained liberty
on the Sabbath & every other day, said
81 say under the constitution W
are guaranteed the right ofconsciencc
and under the constitution we have
right to demand the repeal of thes
laws. l have just as high q respect 70
, the Sabbath as any one else. wan
all men to observe the Sabbath in
> proper way, and according to the die
S tates of his conscience. l want til
: man who wants to go to church to G
to church; and want the man tn;
i wants to 60 and drink his glass {
, beer to 60 and drink it. want I'll
Il man who wishes to enjoy a little mus
al at concert on Sunday night, with h
Ie family, to go and enjoy it. That
n the main point We have got along tc
far in this country to make laws
regulate what man shall do in a ma
Is ter of conscience.
lie This is fair specimen of the cha
acter of the speeches made in fav'
of repeating the Cincinnati Sund:
Ordinance.