The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1873-08-04


| otner counties TO keep Boston IN . neaitny con-
missiOners will be held on Monday afternoon TO
the 1911 s uiGsc but not
vacancies till the regular meeting OF tue Board.
which Will be held on Friday next One OF the
members OF the Commission thinks the officers per-
formed all the duties which they supposed were
required OF them. The impractcabllity Of en-
laid to Legislators, who privately drink
TO excess while supporting the doctrine or pro-
hibitlon and then clog the wheels by voting against
the increase or the force so that the law may De
properly enforced.
HOW SAY yE rwELvEs
IL Ia quite proper to state in this connection that
the officers who made the old guard Of co.'s tables
IN TINS city, and who have done all the work that
prosecuting liquor dealers before the courts, en-
phatcally deny the statement made by the Com
missloners to the eIrect that they have failed to
make seizures at the leading hotels and to prose.
cntc the propretOrs as common sellers. Their YER
sion OF the AFFAIR IN this direction is that they have
these hotels or at wholesale houses; that
the practice OF the Department has always been to
expedlent TO bring the law 70 bear on these
parties; that, when acting under the Mayor, he
and how to visit these places but that under the
new Administration tnis had not been dcne. and
policy of the department. towards these hotels
sne %ork as sS Sev wSTs 9 CLAIM ha
they have dc Ss sGi'u s ssdoas
the Court are vouchers that they have
done done al; that was Delegated 70 them to per-
form. They have made prosecutions against
dealers within tnelr respective districts under
every form OF complaint that the statute provides
ing with intent to sell, Tor selling on Sunday for
maintaining liquor nuisancss ana Tor being com
could be expected to do In this direction they
claim they have AIRY and honestly e,formed.
Court records win show that each man, when not
assigned to other duty, has made on an average
ro% tSa aw ba tnese
mostly made as first offences, we're prosecuted In
that form under authority and were, indeed. FIRST
concerned. so these officers utterly Ignore the at
tempt of the commissioners TO put upon their
law has naturally generated and so caused the
people to very correctly speak Of the law as farce
tion that the old guard makes OF the whole pro
nlbltion programme. They are willing to be sad
DUTY; Su. they feel nG saie IN SAYING
that when ne q ow al ny VIII Sae
been forced to drink. drugs and nostrums of no
mean potency, that are fresh from the political
laboratories. where asprants for office are made
and unmade.
TEMERIrY or THE LIQUOR DEALERS
Perhaps no class Of men in this community feels
greater anxiety to know about the slate that
VIII be framed ed out Of thus action Of the Commis.
fully understand that What has been done
and what may yet be done as part Of
cue IN Il Is al the se take
further advantage of them and their business.
This being the feeling among these men they are
SIMPLY acting as all men would do under like
circumstances, when they seek by all means to FOIL
the commissioners IN this direction And thus
ing the plea of defence adopted by
many OF the leading men engaged IL the liquor
traiic when | say that hereafter, when brought to
Court to plead on charges preferred against them
for any violation Of the provisions OF tne Liquor
law, they will not heretofore, plead guilty"
paY fine, go home and leave the wheels o. Justice
to roll over and crush the regular complement or
sinners In the dock. They Will, on the contrary.
plead mot guilty' in the lower Court, put In their
Defence employ able counsel to conduct the same.
and then and there make a stand and Eight with the
commissioners and their corps ofrustic constabes.
OF what avail such q course may be ~ ~ difficult
manv cases the rustic officials will not be able to
put in such evidence as Will secure conviction.
1t takes men OF some tact AMI experience to do
this and these officers will soon learn that their
shire, or any other hills, will be OF little worth
with the judicial rulers OF the HUB" Aside from
this though it may not have occurred to bhe deal
themselves, 1t Is very clear to the writer, who
has had some experience In the Municipal Court,
that such would certainly block
the wheels of Justice in that Court, ana simply
make 1t impossible to transact the regular bust
ness rapidly has this business increased OF late.
Even the work OF that Court is very labOrlous
upon all connected with 1t, and II these prosecu-
tons against liquor sellers are to be contested and
lon r. winded lawyers employed to fight every case.
inch by inch, them indeed, Will this plan OF attack
upon vendors fail, for IL would be simply impOssi-
bic to do the daily work OF the Court, even If all
the Jud yes should take u hand in 1t. such state
OF affairs may not have been thought oil by the men
who have resolved to make this sort OF a fight, hut
II Is very evident that snca would be the result.