St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-11-13
A SERMON ON SALOONS.
Rev. G. l.. Morrill, Handles thu
Subject Sans Gloves.

Rev. G. L. Morrill, Handles the
Subject Sans Gloves.
G. L. Morrill,, at the Calvary Baptist
church last evening, asked and an
swered the question Can Minneapolis
Afford TO Have the Sunday Saloon?" as
prelude to his sermon on "Lite'S Re-
view"
He spoke as follows: "Worse than
vampires which are said to fan theil
victims while they suck away their
blood-wOrse than brigands who en-
courage Alpine travellers to rest in the
snow and rob them as they freeze
worse than the slugS in fruit which
force it on to luscious maturity because
they are fattening at its core, is the
liquor power i'll our city.
The saloon is an Institution that less
ems the value of nelghboring property,
makes and maintains vice. haStens
wives into an early grave, robs children
of food, clothes and education and sends
its patrons mind to the asylum and his
body to jail or the hospital and his i'm
mortal soul to hell.
The Sunday saloon, in addition to
this, steals the laboring mans Saturday
night wages, cheats him out of needed
intellectual and spiritual culture in the
home and the church, and publicly out
RACES decency and devotion by prosti-
tuting the day religiously observed by
the most orderly and thrifty classes of
citizens.
The last city administration was ar
raigned and superseded largely because
of its sympathy with the liquor traffic,
or of its unwillingness to vigorously
enforce the laws against it.
The present administration is under
stood to have received its support be-
cause of its professed sympathy with
the liquor laws strict enforcement.
While it is cheerfully and thankfully
admitted that as to sale of liquors to
minors, drunkards and after midnight
there has been some improvement, so
far as the sale of liquor on Sunday is
matters are no better than they were
formerly, and that private individuals
have been compelled at their own ex-
penSe of time, money and effort to do
what the administration took solemn
oath to do and is paid to do and has not
done.
Minnesota law, Oh. 76, sec. 1, G. L.
1887, SAYS: "All places where the sale
OF intoxicating liquors shall be licensed,
under the provisions of any law or or
dinance, shall be closed during all hours
of every Sabbath day."
Minneapolis liquor ordinance, sec. 9,
says: Every saloon and the bar of
every tavern, inn or other place where
liquors are sold by the glass or drink,
shall be closed and kept closed during
the whole OF every Sunday"
Minneapolis city charter (ch. 8, sec.
y says: The mayor shall take care
that the laws of the state and the ordi-
nances Of the city are duly observed
aad enforced within the city. He shall
take care that all the other officers of
the city discharge their respective du-
ties, and to that end may maintain an
action of IL andamus, or other approprl-
ate action against any delinquent city
officer"
These laws are to be enforced until
they are repealed.
This administration is not empowered
with discretion as to what ordinances
shall or shall not be enforced.
Many arrests have been made for
petty offenses, but the greater law
breaker, who has defantly kept open
saloon on Sunday has been accorded ex-
emption and protection.
This lawless course has put premi.
UNI on crime and violence in our city.
If the saloon anarchist was tolerated the
robber argued he might be allowed to
ply his business.
When the laws are enforced against