Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-09-11
THE "rOo NUMEROUS SALOON.
"A German Newspaper Reads the Riot Act
to the Saloon Politicians.
New York Republikaner, Angus. IN


New York Republikaner, August Ih.
With respect to the "anti-saloon move
ment in the Republican party, Der RePuc-
Hkaner occupies the ground that the poliu-
cal power of the too numerous salooni
should be curtailed, and we are, therefore,
in favor of the advance about TO be taken
by the party.
In large cities like New York the
saloon" runs ''primaries" and likes" the
delegates to local, State and Nationa! Con-
ventions. The ''saloon" nominates
saloon" Aldermen, and gives us saloon
dispensers Of the taxpayers money. Inc
"heelers" of the saloon dominate ana dlc-
tate.
II is unfortunate that the people who
have the greatest interest at stake IN gov
eminent are not as active as the saloon
keepers and their patrons. All the talk,
however. that the German voters Will be
alienated from the party if it should take
an advance step against the too numer-
Gus" saloon, is nothing but scare thrown
out by the wire-workers, who run saloon
politics and bulldoze conventions. Natu-
rally those who are interested in "numer-
Gus saloons denounce the movement as in
the interest of prohibition and endangering
personal liberty" Such are the phrases
with which they hope TO be able to brighten
our easily excited Teutons. 1t IS notorious
that the brewers establish saloons when
ever and wherever they get chance to dis
pose of their wares by proxy. Thus we
have in this city thousands of saloons in
one Congressional district and dozens OF
saloons in one tenement block.
To decrease this number is certainly in
the interest of good morals, good govern
ment and good society. In the tenement
districts. where the brewers have their most
numerous retail agents, the resident popu-
lation paws tribute to King Gambrinus
or King Cocculus Indicus" to an extent
hardly credible. One-fourth, or rather one
third, of the wages earned goes up IN beer
and foam. No lasting good comes OF 1t or
the consumer, but the manufacturer makes
money, builds palaces on Fifth avenue and
drinks Sec! There is a great deal to be
said in favor of the suppression of the too
numerous" saloon, and it is not of the
" prohibition" yernaCular either. The
arrogance of the saloon in politics, its
domineering and bulldozing, its enormous
powers of consuming and feeding on the
yitals of the people, and all the other attn
butes and evils connected with its too
numerous existence, have given rise to the
thought in the minds of thousands of good
Republicans that some remedy must be ap-
nllGu. HG DGlliOCl phi y Sls'liilo " NC
the defender of personal liberty "per Sc"
and would like to see this movement
take direction against personal lib
erty" But if the Republicans are
wise they will steer clear of abso-
lutte prohibition, which is impracticable,
impolitic and utopian, but will favor such
legislation as would regulate the " too nu-
merous " saloon, clothe it in decent habili-
ments, lessen its powers for causing poverty
and distress. and make it a source of rev.
enue to the State. 1t is impossible to enact
laws that shall make people religious, So
Der, economical or think, but it is possible
and practicable to convince them that the
organized opposition of interested manu-
facturers to a universally conceded reform
in this rank field of the too numerous
saloon is not prompted by due and SOL
emn regard for their personal liberty, but
rather born of a sordid greed for the
millions" in the maintenance and extern
sion of their lucrative traffic.
We do not live on Psalms and cold
water ourselves, but we would regard
little less of the too numerous saloon as
a public blessing and step in advance for
the pecuniary" improvement of The
workingman and his family.
And Der Republikaner thinks that the
party which saved the Union and caves us
emancipation, a solid currency and pro-
tective tariff should be able and must solve
this burning question.