The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1875-02-24

Surfaces Patent saloon Remover
Our neiehbor of the Telegram pro-
poses, in order to get rid OF liquor
saloon that has been erected near the
Post Office. that the Post Office should
lie removed. Now. would II not be
equally as beneficial to religion. as the
Episcopalian Church is quite as near
the liquor saloon complained of as the
Post once tn get up meeting and
petition the Trustees of that denomln-
alton to move their church to another
part of the city, out Of the Immediate
vicinity OF that saloon?-Palladlnm;
That is a specimen OF the Palla :
dunn 9 statement OF fact. Were any
answer needed to the above mis- state
ment, il would be sufficient TO say that
if the vestry OF tie Episcopal Church
should place saloon IN one end OF
that building in defiance Of the wishes
of the members, we would advise the
latter TO cease attending services there.
Telegram.
Last week, we endeavored to con-
vince our Telegram neighbor of the
tot,l absurdity Of his patent saloon
remover by suggesting the removal of
the Episcopal Church, in order to
escape from the neighborhood OF the
saloons noxious influence; he having
urged the removal Of the Post-office
for the same reason. He parties the
force Of our comparison by mention
ing the relative distance between the
two points AID the saloon-making
the difference from the Church TO the
saloon about sixty five feet nine inch
es and three quarters, against our par
allel. as the actual distance measured
by Bro. Surface, and missed by Us!
and complacently concludes that ar
gument is unnecessary in such cases. "
Let US admit that the relative distance
destroys our attempt at showing the
foolishness of his plan; butfit il not
too late to amend our original motion,
before our neighbor indefinitely post
pones it, by substituting the young
Mems Christian Association for the
Episcopal Church, THAT institution
being quite as near" the saloon com
planned of as the Post Office, and viii
make better comparison, for the
rooms occupied by both the p. o. and
the Y. NJ. G. A. are rented and more
easily moved than the Church would
be! With the Telegram, the Palla-
dunn agrees that argument is unnee-
essary in such cases Of Kidding Our
city of an uumitigated nuisance by
recommending the removal from its
vicinity of either one or the other OF
these public helps aud blessings. 1t
is entirely too absurd for argument"
But to come down to "hard pan.
The present proprietor of the saloon,
complained of by the Telegram has a
lease for about eight months more.
The lease is drawn up for restaur-
ant'-had the words, ''and for no
other purpose" been inserted. an
eiectment from the premises could he
had aud the nuisance FOR we hold
ALL liquor saloons in the light of I'M
mitigated nuisances, no matter by
whom or how ''genteely' keptl imme-
dately abated fhe owner of the
premises, therefore, is perfectly pow
erless to FORCE the saloonist to leave
until his time expires, and Uncle Sam
WON'T either place the Post Office on
wheels and swing around the circle
in order to get out of the neighbor-
hood of that or any ether saloon, or
move il 70 another part of the city,
until the expiration Of the present
lease, or for FIVE years longer il he
chooses. This being the case, would
it not be wis dom as we'll as policy to
either wait for the eight months to
elapse, or to do rs some did in the
case Of McCcy-BuY HIM OUT, liquor,
cards, and all, and make grand bon
FIRE Of the hell traps he may have on
hand? We submit the query,
In the meantime, as compromise
we respectfully suggest that our neigh
Dor and ourself, devote our energies
to routing out this sink Of iniquity
located between the Post-ofhce and
the Young Mems Christian Associa-
tion, and make the place so red hot
that the proprietor thereof, will be
obliged to move his traps to another
locality, or quit the business altogeth-
CT, and not disturb Uncle Sam, or the
Y. Nj. c. A, by REQUIRING them to
remove their quarters. Say!
Congressional SUMMARY.