Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1886-10-01
w. C. r q.
I 7his Colama Is Edited underthe Dirtctioa
Of The ", @. n UNion cJpcrrysbargl
How II was In Fos,orln.


En- New ERA Some time ago llIe W.
@ T. U. circulated u petition which was
ngned, believe, by abont onc=thiri the
voters and about nine hundred or one thou.
sand women Sad young men, asking the
council to cAll sn election and get the ex-
preston OF the voters upon the question OF
closing the saloons Under the DON law.
The petition was heard and committee
appointed, which, utter several weeks, re-
ported ns tollows;
70 the Rtyor and Board Of CduteiImcn d'
Fos'oria, Ohiot
In the matter Of admitting the Guestion
OF local ortion Ia the legal voters of your
villnee the committee beg lenve 10 report
That upon consideration ol the matter II
was considered that IL wouid not be advlsa
ble 10 take Immediate action upon this
matter lna8much as the econslitttionaity of
the Dow law il now betore our supreme
Court awaiting decision, which will prob
ably be rendered within the next few weeks
And we also find that the question OF liza
bility OF municipal corporations for the
value OF any property taken or damaged
by reason OF the closing OF brewerres and
saloons by the enforcement OF any prohihi-
tory law has came before the conrts and
has not as yet been fully determined.
Believing, therefore, that il would not be
the part OF wisdom to incur tho costs OF an
election and the publication of ordinance,
and TO take upon the village the risk OF
prosecution for property rnined by the en-
forcement Of the local option ordinances,
your committee would recommend TINT
further consideration of said petition be
postposed until the above questions are de-
cided in our courts.
And your committee would further rec
cmmerd that upon the determination OF
these questions by the courts, that said re-
titioh 1haIl receive full and final action at
yoGr hands.
Respectfully admitted,
j. f. RtcftARr,
E. J. PADGfiAM,
A. J. SrACEHousE,
Committee.
Dated Aug 81, 1899.
think it terribly thin, but the temper
ance people nre accustomed to thin soup
and seem TO relish it.
Strange parents, disown their own child
A solid Republican council refusing TO
submit to voice of the people PROPOSE
ton to enforce a purely Republican law,
for fear Republican COURT would decide
it unconstitutional There are great
many interesting facts connected with this
able to give them and could call them to
mind now.
believe the petition wins signed by
every Prohibitionist in town, but one fac,
not at all surprising TO me was that more
than nine.tenths of the prominent Republi.
cans refuse to sign the petition. Nearly
all the support came from the Prohibi-
tionists and Democrats, and tie very worst
opposition came from the Republican
church members. May the Lord have mercy
on their miserable, hypocritieal souls
One OF our prominent politicians, who lie a
loud professor of Christianity, refused TO
sign the petition, but his drunken son, who
stood by, said: "Let me take it; will
sign it," He did SO, and tried TO persuade
his father to sign, but it was no use.
Cutie number of women who are men,
bers of the Protestant churches Of this
place refused TO add their names for fear it
would injure their husbands business.
Some OF them had drunken sons. One en-
couraging feature was the large number of
young men who gave their names, and
several of them were irequenters of the
saloons. I believe the Greenbackers, with
but one exception, signed the petition.
The saloon-keepers did not seem to be
at all uneasy about the matter. They have
explicit confidence in the e. o. p. that has
always stood by them, although 1t caused
them TO increase their spite against the
Prohi5itionists, and they took it out in
stoning and egSing their buildings and
destroying !heit property in different ways,
We are not easily frightened but will in
crease our hostilities against the traffic.
Youry very truly,
L. A. GoRMLEY.
rostoria. O. Sent. IL 1876.