The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-05-23

that the gangs Of murderous and rob-
bling toughs, who every now n then
break loose, take their origin, and It
is this spirit of contempt for orderand
morals that animates them.
If the police will r~esolutely address
themselves to the suppression OF the
minor evil,-which, indeed, is only
minor by comparison they will be
earning a renewal of the gratitude
with which the public regarded their
services in crushing the organized
ruffianism of two or three years ago.
MIR. Parker on General Fisk.
Mr.. CORTLAND L. Parker, of Perth
Amboy, the Chairman of the State
Central Committee of the Prohibition
Party, read yesterday General Clinton
B. Fisk's interview in THE JERSEY
CITY NEWS. Apparently he did not
like it, for he spoke of it thus
I do not care what General Fisk is reported as
having said, for / know what he has said TO me;
He probably meant that the discussion or local
option would be valuable for educatlonai pur-
poses.
The innuendo that the General is
not correctly reported is not worth
considering, especially in view of the
letters that he has been writing to the
papers the last week OF two. But MI.
Parker's displeasure is noticeable mas
much as it shows that the entire Pro-
hibition party is not in accord with
General Fisk in rallying to the sup
port of the Republican party in the
next election. Mr.. Parker believes
that q Prohibition State Convention
will be held, and that candidates for
Governor and for the Legislature will
be nominated.
Then it remains for US to speculate
as to how much of following General
Fisk a bring over to Geneal Sewelf
Mr.. Parker opines that General Fisk
merely proposes to help non-pro-
hibition candidates on the Legislative
tickets, and indeed that is all the
General declares; but it would be
foolish to deny that the votes he car
ries over to republican senators and
assemblymen will, almost without ex-
ception be cast for General Sewelrs
nominee for Governor.
But if General Fisk succeeds in dis
migrating the Prohibition party for
the time being, he may be slightly
surprised as to where the votes will
drift. There seems to be a broad
difference of opinion regarding the
comparative virtues of the Repub-
lican and Democratic methods Of
dealing with the liquor question.
When General Fisk says:-'In the
first place, I want the law of 1888 re-
stored. That was a long step in adj
vance, and to repeal it was to turn
from the light to the darkness of
ignorance" he represents one extreme.
Mr.. Parker represents the other, when
he expresses himself as follows
The democratic law is better in all its parts
than the Local Option law for the putting down
Oh Tile rum tThillC. OuutT Inc tdttci law ooioOh-
keeper could get a license for $3.50 which entitled
him to sell liquor by the quart, the gallon or the
gill. Now he must have one license to enable
him to sell a quart or less, that is to carry on the
dram trade, and another license tosell more than
a quart, which cannot be drunk on the premises.
OF course, both of these gentlemen
are narrow and illogical, and undemo-
cratic in the last degree in their treat
ment of the broad question. But the
latter to our mind comes nearest to
rejecting the judgment of the people
of the State.
The public at large r convinced
that the Democratic solution of the
liquor question is the best practically
possible, and it is only necessary for
the party to convince the voters that
it's policy has been adopted in good
faith, that a wholesome system of reg
ulating and controlling the liquor
traffic will be perpetuated, and that
there is no intention to hand over the
State-as some people preposterously
affect to believe-to the whiskey in
t~erests, to score a magnificent victory
at the polls in the Fall of this year.
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