Blue-grass blade. [volume] (Lexington, Ky.) 188?-19??, 1890-11-22

COi0 IN the name. IL wins UeCouS0 tfl0
saloon keepers in It are 20 Tsmmany.
Cast your eye on this fact also. says
McGinty. In the Republican general
committee Of New York city there were
in 1887 fifty-three liquor dealers by
actual count, more than from any other
one profession. trade or business. Every
body who knows politics knows that
when Saint Matthew Quay made the
deal with Tainmany, by which the same
vote that elected Hill governor elected
Harrison president, IL was through the
saloons that the deal was carried c-t
why, says ravSrinSy, 1 have heard
some pious citizens lately say that for q
man to join the knights Of Labor is to
make himself morally responsible for the
acts Of its leaders, and at the same time
these pious citizens were protesting al
legiance to political party that had for
its national chairman - branded crimi-
NAL" and for the vice president Of Its ma
tional committee confessed briber and
for its national treasurer another, briber
in "blocks Of Ave."
The baldheaded fact is that the saloons
run the political shebcng Of every large
city in the Union, just a. they do In
New York. And there are none in which
they run it more completely than in the
four high license cities Of Chicago, st.
Louis, Omaha and Kansas City. What
is worse, says McGinty, they are going
to keep on running things as long as they
! run themselves.
What is to be done? Why, says he.
there are but two things that can be
done. One il to let the saloons keep on
running things, and the other is to send
the whole internal saloon business to
everlasting smash.
And McGinty ought to know, for he
has been to the bottom Of the thing.
Hang it all, says he, 30 long Is his bust
ness is legalized the saloon keeper has a.
much right in politics a. any other man
1t makes me tired to hear men talk about
the saloon keeper ~ . sort Of leper, while
he is simply conducting the business
which the same men vote to license and
protect by law and tO receive money
from every year.
They vote to legalixe the business, and
to share in the proceeds, and then an
shocked over the wickedness Of any mar
who conducts It'll They make me worss
than tired, says HcGinty; they maxi
me sick. They make ne sicker than thu
cesspool did.
For my part, I'm tired Of being one o.
the silent partners Of the saloon business
he says, and I'm going to try how 1
feels to be a straight out, clean cut, mp
right. downright and outright Prohibi
ton crank.
This has come to be a political ques
ton, says he. 1t has got to be looked Q
from the broad standpoint Of publ
necessity. If insist on the continuanc
Of the saloon, in order for me to get m.
beer conveniently, then ! insist on re
tanning the cesspool. No oesspool, n
saloon. No saloon. no beer unless yo1
make it for yourself. All H., =.
McGinty, let 'er go. The mal ".
cares more for the qualification of hi
private appetite for beer than h. care.
for his country ought to crawl down 1
sewer pipe-a small one. SO he'll gel
stuck and can't get out.
I'd like to know anyhow il we wouldn't
be better of all around without the bust
ness.
Let alcohol stand on the same basi,
that other pOisons stand on, and let thu
doctors administer it to those who really
need it. as they administer other poisons
Put the saloon on the same basis as the
opium joint, and TIN put a party il
power that will enforce the law If it has
to turn the hose on every beer guzzlinQ
anarchist and personal liberty bowler in
the city.
It's got to come to that. says he, and
the quicker the better. So count me IN
the Prohibition party. 1t isn't very big
yet, but 1t has the nerve to tackle thai
cesspoOl in the right way, and like
nerve.
This il what McGinty SAYS. and hi
ought to know. for he went to the bot
tom of things.