The Grange advance., 1877-05-30

conducting the liquor trade with view
to future contingencies Of Il personal ma
ture. And still others had yet differ
ent hypothesis.
After thorough preparation, the Nay
or proceeds about in this style. Cen
tlen1en, I have called you here to have
talk with you. Until within the last
three Or four weeks you have all got
along finely with your business, and |
heard no complaints: but lately you
have been gest."g rather wild. Now,
l want you TO understand that hereafter,
if any license is revoked for cause, it
will not be reyranted. One thing |
want to call your attention to: YOU have
all been told not to sci! liquor to certain
men, but you have not needed the order.
You have continued to sell to them right
along. Now you don't let these men
have whiskey through regard for their
feelings. If they had no money you
would not give it to them. You let
them have it for their ten cents. If
they had no. 3D.;
Mr.. NJ. Hickman could not stand any
more of this in his, and he interrupted
with: MIR. Mayor, yoa know that is not
so. We don't want these mems mon
ey, but we don't want to make them
mad. I have seen the time that I might
have refused you whiskey with the same
propriety that these men should be re-
fused, but if had done so you would
have got mad. I didn't give it to you
for your mocey, I didn't want your
money. I never asked any odds of you
and I never will. He then explained
to the Mayor that his bar-keeper had
opened the saloon last Sunday morning
to clean out and air the room, not to
sell, and parties had come in to get
drinks.
The Mayor retorted that Mr.. Hick
mans place had been opened from 4
till ~ a. M, each Sunday, for four
Sundays, anc that liquor had been sold
there, and to men of whom general no.
tice had been given not to sell liquor to
at any time.
Mr.. Hickman declared fatty that
this was untrue, and defed the Mayor
to prove it, and between the two a spir.
tied alteration was maintained for
some time, with decided advantage
on Mr.. Hickman's side. .t
Before the Mayor could resume his
homily, Mr.. John Mccormick got the
floor and urged his cause with consider
able eloquence and power. He said
that there were places in the city which
were kept open publicly all day Sunday
and even lighted up Sunday nights, and
that the proprietors were not molested.
Why not go for them, instead of haras-
sing the fellows who only sell on the
sly? Mr.. Mccormick wanted to close
up on Sundays and 60 to church, but
he could not afford to do SO, because his
customers declared that, if they could
not get drinks at his place on Sundays,
they would 60 to those places on week
days where they were accommodated
on Sundays. He wanted the law en-
forced against all alike. t...
Mr.. Jacob Christ said; why not do
here as they do in large cities. There,
if a man violates the law, he is arrested
and punished. Why can't that be done
here :? He admitted that inebriates and
boys can get whiskey in this city, and
that it is wrong to let them have it, but
thought the sensible way would be to
arrest and punish the offenders, instead
of holding these controversial assem-
blies. :.... 5sg
The Mayor made several efforts to
get word in, but the liquor dealers
were too many for him, and barely al
lowed him to complete sentence until
they were ready with plump denial,
or clinching rejoinder. In short, they
beat him at every tnrn, and he finally
gave up the task oflecturing them and