St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-05-17
LADIES WHO DRINK.
Chicago Fair Ones Who Visit Private
Wine Rooms and Imbibe Too
Freely.
Carter Harrison In the Role of Puris
tanical Reformer--The Cause
Thereof.
The Revenge of small-Fry Pol1tt-
clan Who Stands Between Logan
and the Senate.


and the Senate.
Correspondence of the Globe.
CHICAGO, May 1.-THE criminal record
of the past week has not been such as to
call for extended remark; few fracases,
not worthy of passing mention, have oc-
CURED, and this big city of big crimes and
many OF them, can clear her skirts, for the
past nine days, Of any disgraceful sensa-
ton. The slight disturbances that have
occurred have not been attributable to liquor,
fact that saloon men and high-license
advocates may pride themselves on. Why,
do you know the city Of New York, with
double the population of Chicago, derives
but S700, 900 from its saloon licenses, and
paper OF that city recently put On many airs
about the matter? But Chicago-Chicago
is very wicked, and very large, if its pro-
portion of wickednesS is an estimate of its
pOpulation-derives
MORE THAN A MILLION
per annuu from its saloon licenses. Chicago
is tough but the legislature is helping
straighten it out. More than fair portion
OF its city council were either proprietors
OF saloons OR were i'll the pay OF saloon
Keepers, and it was no wonder that the
high license bill was so modified in thu
| council as to allow separate license for
beer selling alone. But alas! the beer meg
did not see to it that their licenses were
lived up to, and but few days ago beer
licenses were revoked and all saloonkeepers
must now pay the full sum which pernits
the opening of any place that is called q
saloon. Your correspondent forbearS criti-
clsm on this recent order of the council but
he may be permitted to state few facts.
Beer licenses formerly were placed at $50
per year. The city northumberland
| ward members, be it understood failed ia
get
THE SALOON SUPPORT
in the recent contest for city officers. The
ward workers and strikers were, of course,
not to blame. The odium and punishment
must fall on some one. The struggling
beer sellers in the outlying districts were to
blame, without question. The meeting Of
the city council following the city election
"a meeting composed of Democratic alder
men-revoked beer licenses, putting all sa-
looms on an equal footing. Rather tough
on the small-fry saloonists, but step for
ward for the Prohibitionists and good
thing for the city'S finance. By that action
OF the council no less than 200 saloons,
mostly of a low grade and frequented by
the worst characters of the city, were abso-
lutety frozen out of existence. The police
We're instructed to issue licenses
TO ANY REPUTABLE CHARACTER.
Whence arose all this reform, so sudden
and so severe? To be sure the laws were
there, but they had been there awaiting en-
forcement months before. All they lacked
was reinforcement from the mayor. Now
| Carter Harrison is possible candidate for
the United States senate. The develop
ments of to-day Thursday are still more
l i,,l fou IIor
head has been heaped more abuse than
upon that of any other man before the pub
| lie, expects to find himself side by side with
statesman whose chief weakness is max
| ing capital out of the Offices of which his
position gives him the control To Sift the
matter down to a fine point Mayor Harri-
son is playing the puritanical dodge to get
| the best of John A. Logan in the senatorial
| fight
| CHICAGO FINDS HERSELF INDEBTED,
indirectly of course, to Logan for Harri-
sons high license reforms, his vetOing OF
| important railroad bills and many other
measures that would have passed through
| the city council unquestioned had not this
| (foreseen to HarriSon) question arisen. Har-
risOn, like Caesar, is ambitious, but unlike
4 that illustrious Roman he is not dead. Blest
with physique that even the old Roman
ruler might have envied, he's good for many
a campaign yet and if his scheming does
not land him in the United States senate
this time he'll get there before he dies, sure.
! Mayor Harrison is a politician par excel
lence. His personal record is beyond queS-
ton. But as politician he is a sharper, q
mountebank, David for Harrison but a
Jonah for his followers. 1t is possible that
before this letter gets in type the Illinois
senatorship contest, now five months old,
win have been decided But after all
WHY NOT A WORD FOR LOGAN?
In day or so he will have been reelected
or shelved for good Anybody to beat
Logan. seems to be the cry at Springfield.
But why anybody TO beat Logan?" He
has been bitter partisan, to be sure; who
would not be in his position? But then he
was a gallant soldier, his private life has
i been above reproach, and to his public life
no scandal has attached. He has not been
a jobber OF a corporation tool. His I'M
questionable integrity should overbalance
this charge of partisanship. The fact is the
cry of anybody to beat Logan; would. be
idiotic if those who used it did not have
sinister motives. There are ''purchasable"
Democrats in Illinois as well as Republic
| cans, and only money can beat the ''black
chief" Logan is undeniably uneasy at the
turn affairs have taken, but he has
| ONLY TO FEAR TREACHERY
| from members of his own party. A Chi
caao member of the legislature Republican,
and elected on the Blaine ticket, is the only
obstruction to Logan's reelection. And
that member, Sittig by name, withholds the
electing vote because Logan failed to secure
the appointment of an unreliable relative of
| Sittig to small federal office Thus, do
great men thrive on the favor of pap-suck-
| arS and One-QOliar-a-VOte freemen.
| Returning to the subject of saloons and
attendant evils [ may be allowed to allude
to social evil that is not recognized in this
| CITY OF elsewhere to the extent that its i'm
! portance. demands. There is widely
growing habit among women-and the ma
| iority of them are of the upper and middle
! classes-of initiating their husbands and
brothers by spending portion of their time
In drinking saloons. Of course 1 will
have to
| y APOLOGIZE TO THE FAIR sen
for speaking of the ''refreshment rooms of
popular confectionery shops and restaurants
| as sNdrinlling Saloons" but such they GER
| tainlv are, and if any one will take pains to
test tile truth of this statement he'll find an
extraordinary demand for hanson and
| gurneys in front of these places late in the
| afternoon of any pleasant day. ''Cabby'
| knows his business aid says nothing. He's
been there before. He discharges his fair
natron at her own door in as comfortable a
manner as possible, while sick headache
prevents the lady from appearing with the
Family at the tea-table. Ii the sexes were
reversed the verdict would be s.the old
man is drunk" But in this case ina is
worn out with shopping" l have seen
Young ladies scarcely out of their teens