The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1888-09-22
TEMPERANCE.
THE SALOON ON SUNDAY.

turning the Lords Day Into the DEVILS
Day-How 1t Works in Chicago-Wives,
/ Mothers and Children Numbered
/ Among Its Helpless Victims.
1T is the wife and mother who has
to suffer from the Sunday saloon"
said Andrew Paxton. cit is the I'M
deserving and the helpless who are
male its victims. | remember one
particular case of the kind. 1t was
over in the Desplaines street police
court. A good-looking young man was
in the dock charged with drunkenness
and disorderly conduct. His wife ap-
peared against him, young woman
with baby in her arms. "A better
husband and kinder father and a
more industrious and capable work
man never lived than my husband
when the liquor is out of him. All
| through the week we live happily, and
he is sober because he is busy. But
when the Sunday comes he has time
and money, and when he gets drunk he
abuses me and the children till he is
that stupid he falls asleep. / dread to
/ AA'''C hbtllbtlI COllICs IltI LdIlG Is
Mary Rogers. Think of it! In land
called Christian the laws for the pro-
lection of the people are ignored, and
the Christian Sabbath that most peo-
pie look to as day of rest and COM
fort, day of rejoicing, is made dread
full thing and terror to the helpless
And there are 10000 such women as
Mary Rogers in Chicago. Ten thou
sand homes where the Lords day is
turned into the devil day just because
the mayor refuses to carry out the plain
meaning of the law.
Z" If you are out on the streets on q
Sunday evening in the poorer neigh
borhoods, notice the ragged children
hunting for their father, who is drink
ing up his wages in the Sunday saloon.
Poor, little skinny creatures some
of them are, afraid almost of their
lives to venture into the quarreling,
loud-voiced mob. Think what little
child hears in such places. It's all
well enough to say that men needn't
go to the saloon unless they want to,
but think OF the demoralizing influence
the oaths and obscenity roared out by
drunken men have on little children as
they are dinned into their ears Sunday
after Sunday. What can the Sunday
school or church do to counteract such
/ teaching? 1t is a common thing to hear
little toddlers swear before they can
talk plainly.
1T is on Sunday that the most of
the drinking is done. Little beer-shops
that are tended by one man on the
weekday have to hire five and six on
/ Sundays A lot of loafers hang around
/ Longing on chairs and tables waiting
for somebody to come in who can
buy Then all these bummers break
for the bar and drink up the wages of
the producer The crowd of loafers
is regular institution at many saloons,
maintained for the revenue of the
house.
/ 1.-The most annoying feature of the
/ Sunday saloon is not so much the sa-
loon itself, as the contrasting. A
lot of hoodlums congregate in the al
/ leys and back-yards of houses, and
drink and carouse all Sunday long.
They swear and use the filthiest Ian
guage a man can use, and the people
living in the rear houses have to en-
dure it. we can't help it, sir a very
nice lady said to me. we have no
other windows to look out Of, and we
are forced to hear all that all day Sun
day. 1 dread for the day to come
round.
Then fathers send their little ones
with the GROWER to the saloon of a
Sunday, and lie around the house
drunk. The little ones are given a sip
OF beer, and in many cases are made
intoxicated by their own parents, who
laugh at their tipsy staggerings. If
the little girl who is sent for beer hap
pens to fall and spill the liquor she is
beaten brutally. Its misdemeanor
for a child to be in a saloon to get
beer, and the child can be arrested, as
well as the saloon-keeper who sells it
beer or liquor. / wish more people
7 KNEW IL, ana WOulu avail GlSIuSClNeS Ol
the provision of the law.
els it possible to carry out the law?
Why, of course it is possible. If the
mayor wanted to, or dared to, of course
he could. If he can't, the sheriff can,
and Sheriff Matson is responsible if the
laws are not enforced in Cook County.
If he is helpless, then Uncle Dick
Oglesby can be called on. Why, look
at Hyde Park. That proves that the
Sunday laws can be executed, and if
Captain Hunt, with his handful of men,
can shut up the saloons in those tough
places in Kensington and South Chi
cago, Chief Hubbard could do the
same in Chicago. And he would il
the mayor said so and meant it. | be-
lieve l could get the signatures of
thousand saloon-keepers to an agree
ment to close on Sunday if all the
other saloons would close. Chicago
NeaOS.