The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-11-22
Business Encroaching on the Fashionable
Quarter of Fifth Avenue, and Likely
to Crowd the Paryenues Up Town.
A Jealous Advocate of the Prayer Cure
Strikes New Speculative Idea.
Denunciati0n of the Practice of CraniOtOmy
The Insanity of Dion, the Billiard Ex-
pert-General New York News.
THE TEMPERANCE QUESTION

Assuming Greater Importance than 1t Has
Yet Commanded.
Special to the indianapolis Journal.
NEW YORK, Nov 2L-The agitation Of the
liquor question in this city has steadily grown
more and more excited, until the week ends
with an unprecedented turmoil in the business
Of beverages. Several causes have produced
this state of things. The political significance
Of the matter lies in the fact that the prohibition
vote defeated the Republican ticket in the last
State election. the ballots for the Prohibition can
didates counting up 30, 900, or double those of
any previous campaign. That raises the ques
ton what the Republicans shall do in the way
of treating the subject. The local excitant is
the exposure of corrupt relations between the
Excise Commissioners and the vile resorts and
the preferring of formal charges against the
board by the Mayor. This arrays the better
class of dealers against the vicious ones, as
shown in resolution by the Union for Rights,
an organization of saloon-keepers, that 'no
resort In which women are in any manner
used as an attraction ought to be tolerated"
The assaulted commissioners are still trying to
create diversion by enforcing the law against
bars accessible from theater Hobbies; and the
astonishment of Glove seekers between acts is
amusing, for they compelled to 60 out into
the street for their purposes. AS it has become
common fashion to go to the theater in even
ing dress, and leave hats and overcoats in a
depository before entering the auditorium, this
exposure to the elements is nuisance. Mean
while the open sale of drinks i'll variety theaters
is uninterrupted. But the police impeled to
a spasmodic enforcement of the Sunday law,
and the preparations for stoppage of the traffic
tomorrow are unusually complete and earnest
Still another and violent discord is between
the Prohibitionists and the advocates of high
license law The latter. led by the combined
Episcopal clergy and the Society for the Pre-
vention of Crime, have entered upon a
powerful campaign. To defeat this move
ment, the same Prohibitionists who conducted
the canvass that polled 80, 900 votes in the State
have organized anew, with the especial intention
of sending speakers to every corner of the Com
monwealth. This is meant to counterfeit the
religious appeals that were two months ago
mailed to all the clergy imrloring them to ad-
vocate high license, and which have proved in
huential. The Prohibtionists disfavor all Ii
censing. The local Republican politicians are
generally in favor, now, of law making the
license fee 81 900 year for distilled liquors and
only 800 for wines and beer. That would salts
fly the Germans and crafty the churchmen.
The Democrats are likely to take similar view
In case the mandate from the Pope, ratfying
the expression of the Baltimore convention
against the liquor traffic, proves to be severe.
On the whole, therefore, the result is pretty
sure to be high license for whisky and low
one for beer, with, incidentally, closure of
many wicked resorts through the appointment
of unsympathetc excise commissioners