New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1895-09-29
WORD TO LAW-ABIDING GERWANN
From The Evangelist.

From The Evangelist.
is evident that we have in rt this STATE ana
Immediately before for the preservation Of the
OF sanctlty. A supreme effort has been commenced
by the rum power. backed by the "anti-Puritan1s
cal and other clements in society at a arg th ama
sands Of t9s enessP and moral
SFi no ss ANA ndsf Vy Of IN the days
The first point to be considered in view Of TIL.
f5e as and q o% AMY to + % a that
this strong point Is the honest CONVICTION OF ne
Sunday beer-drinking assemblies OF their Father;
land are altogether good and necessary there anr
OF right belonging to the essence OF personal lid
II this element of tn. public opinion that will in
the coming election shape the acSn OF ths, NEW tbs
msntsnance and even the strenSihePins of, Of the os
Sunday laws would be all easy task The claim or
ss on sunday Go or e saHe Of svend
vantage Want on that day for debauching all who can
be debauched and winning their earnings from tneir
suffering families wh!:e piing sevenfod work upon
the police and criminal courts is too monstrous ior
the common-sense OF the most Indifferent citizen.
Great and violent the demands. and des-
perae the measures OF this lawless ihtetesti
IL Is really weak. without argument 10 stand
upon. In the consciousness OF the whole community
and OF It's own supporters we never mst auG IN.
VOWED. that he DID not show. by some kind ot
OF Il and knew that II was wrong. Everybody
Not so with the German Sunday beer-garden
business That is strong In the sefrespecting con.
v;ction of those who have been brought up IN tho
unquestioned assurance that Ii is good ana 1air
thing and also In the respect however mistaken
of multltudes who no harm In H. Inc
only point which such conviction as THIS can
be successfully assailed resisted is the point OF
union between the Sunday beer-garden and the
Sunday rumshop. That these are inseparable BY
any practicable scheme OF excise law must Do
pain to every who considers the subject, from
whatever point OF view. German or American
Puritancal or other.
The real question, therefore. for sober. honest,
loyal and consderaie German citizens is not that
OF protection 10 the kind of Sunday and OF Sunday
entertainment that he cherishes, but is that OF UNI:
versal license also OF the saloons that he well
| knows and acknowledges exist only TO fire the
dangerous passions, to gather together at leisure
the crimlnay disposed and the emptabe. 20 st.inu-
| late every possible tendency 10 disorder. and TO
pervert the universal weekly holiday to focus OF
the weeks possibilities for evil for vice. for crime,
for Misunderstanding, for poverty and degradation
and pauperism.
This. then. is one OF the most important and i'm:
citizens be induced by friendly reasoning to see
the nobler part for them In yielding their custom
and waving what they believe to be their right In
| the matter OF Sunday license? The statement Ia
often made. and We believe on good grounds, that
the great majority OF our voters OF German ante
cedents not the friends actual or theoretic, OF
| that peculiar scourge OF our country the American
| Just now IN danger OF becoming its advocates and
! friends by making common cause with the saloons
| against the friends OF law and OF Sunday OBJ.
servance We beseech our intelligent fellow -c!t.
gems OF the Fatherland to cons der OF the matter
d!spassiorately, ard not much from the view,
point OF their individual preferences and rights az
OF public duty In the present great exgency.