The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1873-05-02
Catching a CIeutontc) Tartar.

The sabbatarians and prohibitionists of
the city of Lafayette, in the county OF Up
pecanoe, in the State of Indiana, nave
caught Tartar in the form of their May
or. a Teutonic gentleman of tine name OF
Kimmel.
The Legislature of Indiana having pass
ed a strict Sunday law, this worthy magls-
trate was disposed to disregard it, so far as
II related to liquor and lager but the Coun-
ellis of that flourishing HoOsier city passed
an ordinance requiring its rigid enforce
ment, and, accordingly his honor proceed
ed to enforce it and all Sunday laws to the
very letter. These laws, prohibiting all
s'common labor on Sunday, he not only
executed against the hotel and saloon keep
ers, but against all who performed labor or
work on that day-the BARRIERS, cigar deal
ers, candy venders, milk pedlers, etc. He
even ordered the arrest of the publisher,
editor, and compositors of daily newspa
per office, for working on Sunday afternoon
and evening to get out their Mondays edl-
/ ton. This paper has been violent advo-
/ cate of the law IL question, and had abused
/ the liquor and lager dealers i'll the usual
! Incorporate manner of the temperance
people. Kimmcl '.ierked' its proprietor
and editor with very good will, we may
suppose, for breaking the very law which
! they had demanded, and a great outcry
/ against him was the consequence. lie did
not make Rome howl" but he made La
fayette ''squear' very vigorously against
I its own law. The cigar dealers and smo-
kers, the millmen and tEeir numerous Gus
toners, and the unshaven citizens all join
ed in one common, or uncommon, yell
I against the Purtanical law. They did not
see, because they did not feel the point of
! it. until the Teutonic magistrate prlcked
them with it. While it was supposed to
affect only the hotel and saloon keepers
and their Sunday patrons, a majority OF
the people, perhaps, thought 1t very pro
per law but the moment the Mayor bro't
it home to them, all who were affected by
it joined in swelling, if not sweet, chorus
in denunciation of it. Even the ladies'
who were grievcd for the lack of the lactea
fluid for their tea, coffee, and cookery
added their shrill shrieks to the universe
howl against the oppressive statute, anc
the blessed children, especially such in
fants as were dependent upon ''the bottle
, fOI their Susteuance, Joined in the genera
cry. The Mayor brought very many ST
their milk by prohibiting the Sunday salt
of that furnished by the kline, and raiSeC
such a row in Lafayette as WAS never be
fore known in that city of some l., 0O
! souls.
This thorOugh-gOing magistrate ever
; went SO far as to send word to the sexton
that they must not ring the church bells
and they would not have been rung had hi
officers been equal to the task of carrying
out his wishes. They were afraid of arous
ing the Indignation of the pious, ard thi
, part of the Mayors programme was no
. executed. But his honor may yet ''silenc
, those dreadful bells if the sabbatarian
, and Puritanical pietists persist in their pur
pose of prohibiting the sale Of whisky ant
! lager, especially the latter; for his honor
> it is said, came from Frankford-on- n-the
Main where the great beer riot Occurrei
, the other day. But, whether Mayor Kim
; mel goes thus far or not, it must be con
ceded that he has gone far enough to con
, vince the temperance fanatics of Lafayette
I that they have caught Teutonic Tartar
-fHild. Sunday Mercury.