The record-union., 1891-04-06
Did NOT SAY II.
Rev. A. c. Bane Declares that He Has
Been Misrepresented.
But at the Same Time He Says the
Assertions Attributed to Him
Were True.

The announcement that on last evening
Rev. A. G. Bane would at the South
Methodist Church speak in reference to
the accusations made against him in an
evening paper-to the effect that be had
'slandered and blackguarded the city''-
caused an immense throng to gather at
that church.
The reverend gentleman consumed
fully two hours in his remarks and made
a full and complete explanation of the
made against him, and also
took occasion to vigorously denounce the
journal referred to for the course it had
pursued.
He began by saying that no citizen
loved Sacramento better than he. The
nearest and dearest friends he had on
earth resided here. No one regretted
more than he that circumstances made it
necessary that he should make public
facts tending to show that Sacramento
was in sad need of a thorough cleansing.
like five months ago he said
the question of
LADIES ENTRANCES
To saloons was taken up for consid-
Grafton by the Pastors Union of this
city. 1t had long been known that these
demoralizing affairs existed in great
and were daily wrecking the
lives and morals of the young girls and
women Of Sacramento. He was appointed
as a committee TO gather what Informal
ton he could in regard TO the matter, and
he did his duty to the best OF his
ability. He reported to the union what
ne had learned some weeks later. The
was not given out for publication.
But some time after he had submitted his
report member OF the union, Rev. Mr..
told Mrs. Hoffman, a Mis-
souri, temperance lecturer, some facts re-
gardlng the report, which facts were that
little girls had been seen to enter
the El Dorado Saloon, at Ninth and
streets, through the ladies entrance"
Since then Mrs. Hoffman, while in the
southern part of the State had, in one of
her lectures, referred TO the matter. An
alleged report of her lecture was pub
lished in the Ventura Democrat, and that
journal credited Mrs. Hoffman with hav-
ing said that when she arrived in Sacra-
mento from the East she met an old Pres
byterian friend, who informed her that
the Capital City was a place given over to
sin, drunkenness and the devil. Not only
men were to be seen reeIing drunk in the
streets, but misses-little school girls
were in the habit of tripping boldly into
the saloons on their return from school,
up to the bar, taking their nips
and getting gloriously befuddled."
DID NOT SAY IT.
Continuing, the speaker said this Ven
tura paper arrived in Sacramento, and
directly the blame was charged to him
self and Mr.. Stephenson. But Mr.
had never told Mrs. Hoffman
that little school girls were in the
habit of tripping boldly into the sa-
looms, taking their nips and getting
gloriously befuddled," nor had he.
the speaker, ever told Mr.. Stephen
son anything of the kind He had
informed q reporter Of the evening paper
referred to Of this, but it was never pub
lished. Further, DIR. Bane said he did
not believe that Mrs. Hoffman had ever
made the statement credited to her in the
Ventura paper.
The speaker said that, as a rule, ''re-
porters could get things the crookedest of
any people in the world" and he knew
what he was talking about, because he
had been reporter himself This was
why he doubted that Mrs. Hoffman had
been reported correctly.
In his report to the Pastors Union he
did not state that he had evidence that
school girls got drunk. But he did say
that little school girls had been seen
going into saloons. He did not know
nor had he ever ventured an opinion as
to what these girls did after entering the
saloons. III did not know whether thev
drank or became drunk, or what they
did. He had never noticed their condi-
ton when they came out. He thought
and the union agreed with hin-that it
was enough to know that
GIRLS OF TENDER YEARS
Entered these places. There was no
need of proving more. It made no differ
ence whether they were schoolgirls or
not-they were some mothers daughters;
some young hearts going wrong. Ifthey
were not schoolgirls they were of the
age that they should be schoolgirls. He
was sorry to say, however, that evidence
had been presented to him going to show
that some of the young misses who had
been seen entering the El Dorado saloon
through the ladies entrance were
schoolgirls.
The reverend gentleman said that in
defense of himself, in defense of Mr..
Stephenson, in defense of the ministerial
union, he felt it his duty to give the evil
dence he had gathered to his hearers, and
he hoped that by throwing aside the mantle
of darkness and exposing to light the de-
moralized condition Sacramento was in it
would result in a public crusade against
the dens of iniquity, which Were not
only menacing but actually running the
rising generation. He then proceeded to
read the statements of Mrs. 4. NJ. Carley,
81 prominent member of the Women's
Christian Temperance Union, II. G.. Jones,
j. B. Deseae, and several others, all of
which were to the effect that large num-
bers of women, and young girls in short
dresses from II to Is years of age, had
been seen by them entering the FL Do
rado Saloon. Some figured that an av-
erage Of 100 females entered this place
every twenty-four hours.
In conclusion the speaker denounced in
forcible terms those who had accused
him Of being a ''blackguard," when he
had spoken but the truth. Why should
sin be concealed and an immoral city be
permitted to masquerade in false light
he asked. Enough had been shown to
prove, he declared, that the devil had the
upper hand III Sacramento, and if all that
is immoral could be shown to the good
people who were listening to him, they
would not be surprised 10 learn that the
devil had deserted hell and come hither,
because Sacramento was better place for
him.
FELL ON THE COBBLES.
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