St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-02-17
BY THE SINGLE TAX LEAGUE.
That Organization Discusses the
SUNDAY Saloon Law.


Sunday Saloon Law.
The Sunday saloon law was discussed
by the single tax league last evening.
but the meeting lacked the enthusiasm
and earneStness which has characterized
the treatment of this topic by
other bodies, and even the previous
meetings of this body. This was due
partly to the absence of nearly all of
the strongest and most rabid speakers
of the organization, and partly to the
fact that those who were there did not
take a deep interest in this subject.
For the most part the speeches were
tame and decide dly unlike the denunc-
iatOry addresses delivered at the mass
meetings of Sunday or the sessions of
the union league. The principal speak
er OF the evening was ex-Representa-
tive s. A. Stockwell. who began his
remarks with a few good words
for the crusaders, although he was
not in sympathy with the crusade.
"These men," he said, "are actuated
by honest motives. They should not
be regarded as spies, but rather as men
of narrow views. They look at this
evil of intemperance-and it is great
evil-through tinted glasses, and to
them 1t appears enormous, and they are
determined to put it down at any price.
l do not believe that when they went
into this fight they had any idea that it
would eliminate as it has in piece of
political jobbery. 1t is not the crusaders,
but William Henri EuStis, John Go0de-
now and the e. O. p. who are making all
this hubbub about the passage of this
amendment, and they are doing it not
in the interest of good morals as they
would have you believe, but for purely
political motives"
eve don't want any Sunday laws at
all. Every law which makes Sunday
holiday is an abridgment of the right
of the people. contend that no legis-
lative body has the right to say what l
shall eat and drink and whereWith l
shall be clothed.
Il have not been in Minneapolis very
much of late, but | know enough about
what has been going on here to be able
to say that Mayor Winston is just as
anxious to see the saloons closed Sun
day as was Mayor Babb, who closed up
the smaller places, but felt that we
could not afford to close the West and
,Nieollet hotels.
Then to speak of high license. How
long before it will obiterate the saloon?
Why, it will never do that. The high
license fosters the saloon, and these
nyp0crlteS VINO were hOWllng for 1t at
the Lyceum want that money to help
pay their taxes. believe in no license
at all.
John McGaughey said that he did
not believe the mayor and chief of po-
lice wanted the saloons closed on Sun
day. They were looking for something
higher than what they had already at
tanned, and for political reasons did not
want to enforce the law.
IL. B. Martin was called upon and
said that if he had been correctly in
formed the ordinance was good thing,
as 1t took from the hands of citizens the
power to secure the arrest and convic-
ton by summary procedure of other
citizens. He thought the council should
also have placed it beyond even the
power of the police officers to arrest a
man. take him before single magis-
trate and secure his conviction for a
crime without allowing him to exercise
his rights in full. He thought all prose-
cution for this offense should be under
the state law.
l.. K. Cbilds, J. Lawrence. Maj. Buell.
and S. P. Jones also spoke briefly.