, 1872-10-21

After the question Of the closing Of the a.
looms has been discussed for many days, it has
suddenly and Unexpectedly been decided.
Though beset on all sides, Mayor Mediu has
firmly repel1ed the effort to. limit Sunday free
dom, untouched since 1885, Ho leaves it to the
! temperance people, with the ,Rabid Democrat
Rely at their head, to seek their redress from
| the Grand Jury, with what SUCCEEDS is known.
He has been attacked in the papers, at public
/ meetings, and from the pulpit, because he would
| not allow himself to be made the tool of fanati-
cism. But he would not be misled- Then these
fanatics and Temperance people adopted another
oourse, which has won them apparent SUCCESS.
They turned to Corporation Counsel Tuley, and
City Attorney Stiles, two decided Democrats and
Greeley men, for an opinion, and with that they
assailed the Superintendent Of Police. Yester-
day, he issued proclamation based uponit. An
inquiry made Of Mr. Waahburn by the editor o4
the 6aats-Zeitung, Was answered 's that no liquor
could be sold at concerts, theatrica1 perform
ances, or balls" and he gave it as his opinion
that entertainments like those Of the Swiss
Manne1chor, this evening, came under the head
Of enloons.
On this We would remark: .-. -
We advise every saloon-keeper simply to keep
his front door closed, and if he chooses to keep
his curtains down, 50 that passers-by can have
no pretence for complaint, and so that he can
wait on his customers quietly as usual. A. sa-
loon has the same right as church, so long as
it is quietly and decently On. II its pro-
prieto rs, by preserving external appearances,
deprive church-goers Of all prete1t for COM
plaint. they have done their duty, and va should
like to see any one venture to search their prem
lses- 4 policemen, except when called in, or
when he has State warrant has nothing 70 do
there he can simply be ordered out. The pro-
prletors should let it to that. and act unit
edly. Il it is necessary, they. will find citizens
enough to aid them, even if the matter has to be
meantime, there Will have been opportunities
enough to put radical stop to this BUSINESS
What the Superintendent OF Police says shout
private gatherings like the entertainment Of the
Swiss Mannerchor is simply, laugbable; The
Terei7s is master in its own house, and has q
right to eject impudent intrudera.
It is painful and unpleasant thing that the
influence Of Democrats aud Greeleyites like
against Almendingef}, Callahan, Tuiey and Giles
crate M for Greeley at 'p's1y e1ery ward I
meeting should have brought Chicago back
long ago settled. There is only one thing to be
done: determined resistance and firm union
We again advise aaloon-keepers to keep their
front doors closed, perhaps to keep boy to shut
them behind the new arrivals, and generally to
carry on their business as quietly as usual, and
confding in their fellow citizens to await the
further development Of affairs.
The supplemental order Of Wnshburn, in which
he expressly declared to the Police Captains that
the shutting of front doors and closing OF cur
tains would not answer, stamps him as an un-
trustworthy, Weak- k-minded man. After having up
to this time pretended to be opposed to Sunday
restrictions, and q friend Of the Germans, he
ind