The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1876-08-08
The Temperance Folks and the Trib-
une Rum shop.

II seems that the keepers of JAY GouLps
Tribune rum shop are prepared to sell out
for 5000 This is n large sum to pay Tor
a rum shop, but the gorgeous saloon in the
tall tower cost that TO AT IL up, say the
keepers, and though they are doing arush-
ing business, they are willing TO step down
and out If they get back the price OF their
plant from the temperance people. What
induces them to make the offer Is their
disgust with the notorious position they
occupy, subjecting them to the jeers OF
their friends and acquaintance. No man
of a sensitive temperament would wish TO
be singled out ms keeper of the Tribune
rum shop, reprobated by all the friends OF
temperance and the admirers of the late
Horace GREELEY.
The temperance people propose to raise
tho money by subscription to get rid of
this den of iniquity, and wipe away 80
foul stain put on the memory OF that
lifelong enemy of rum, the founder Of
the Tribune. now controlled by his snc-
cessor, JAY GOULD. But JAY GOULD has
let out his rum shop for term OF years
at an extortionate rent, such as he could
get from no other person than rum
seller viii no release his tenants without
compensation We fnnoy not. He is not
that sort of man. The rum shop brings
him in large percentage Of the rents lie
gets from the tall tower; and even with
what il pays, the building yields only
about two or three per cent. interest, and
out of that taxes have TO be paid. No;
the temperance folks need not think that
JAY GOULD will give up the Tribune rum
shop without himself getting his price rs
well as the keepers theirs.
This might be done: subscription might
be raised 10 wrest the Tribune from the
clutches of JAY GOULD. Then the rum
shop could be at once closed, and the
Tribune be turned into a temperance
organ once more. As an investment, how
ever II is valueless, for its real estate Is
only worth the mortgage on it; the paper
has lost money steadily and largely since
DR.. GREELEy's death, and has now no
chance of making money, loaded down rs
IL is with accumulated debts, n bad reputa-
ton, and the other results of silly manage
ment. But the Temperance folks might
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JAY GOULD get too big price out of them.
Whatever he may pretend to negotiating
buyer he Is sick of his Tribune, his tall
tower, and his young editor, and is anx-
ious to unload them. He knows their little
worth, but he is sharp at a bargain, and,
ms far as concerns his Tribune he is bull
II the temperance folks propose to buy
let them pick out their shrewdest bar
gamer and let him beat down the Wall
street shark to the lowest figure. He is
anxious to sell, and when a man is In that
state of mind, the buyer need not pay too
dear for his purchase.
We trust that the temperance people
will succeed in some way In shutting I'D
the Tribune rum shop, for ii is an eye-sore
to all who cherish the principles so dear TO
HORACE GREELEY, and offers in their view
a temptation to many young men, who
may enter its portals out Of curiosity, TO
leave them flushed and maddened by the
fiery liquors they have consumed within.
But however black this blot on the base
OF the monument to the founder OF the
Tribune IL is not half so black as that foul
stain which false, hypocritical aud stock
jobbing editorship leaves upon its sky
piercing spire However, let the temper
ance folks go ahead and agitate the rum
shop question.