New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1895-10-22
DIR. PARKHURST SPEAKS.
HOW GERMAN BEER GARDENS DIFFER
FROM NETWORK SALOONS.

, DEFENCE OF THE EXCISE ENFoRcEMENT-WHf
THE SPY SYSTEM IS NECESSARY.
Tho pav DR. G. r. parkhurst began his East Side
o,r,o,a, ,os, night In the course of the evening
no addressed two meetings the first at ST. Georges
Memorial Hall East Sxteenth-st.. where he SPOKE
under the auspices Of the 81. George NE" O''D'
and afterward at his own church In Mad'so" s'u''e
he addressed meeting Of the Young Me" 'o''7'
OF that church.
The Pew William r. Garth presided over the meet
Ing in East Sixteenth-st.. and having IN we" ~
Parkhursts subsequent engagement, introduce" '"e
speaker with only very few words oil weico'ie'
DR. Parkhurst was received with catering cor
dial,ty by the 800 or 600 men anu "
present without much preface he plunged at once
into the pith Of his discourse-the excise question:
II have been told' he said that there IS quite d
large proportion OF Germans I'm the audience peiore
me tonight But we are not here Tonight TO DISCUSS
the question which IS just now 80 prominent VIII"
"A great many men who were born on uerHan
ground. or whose parents were Germans. haNhs
been In association great deal with Germans DOT"
her. and In their own country. think am IN
position to expre's certain amount OF rer"ah
sentiment | don't propose to discuss the excise
question. Ii Is very complicated question: anu
one element which complexities II exceedingly II
that the German beer garden Is one thing ana an
Irishman's New-York City whiskey saloon Is quite
another thing Although | may be raped for it to-
been in a great many German beer-gsrdens on the
other side of the water. and II the only question we
had to meet was German beer gardens as .ae.
conducted there We could meet tne question
very easily. But have also been In irish WHISKY
saloons and when you associate them WIN tie
German garden you are on quite a difiereht srVunu.
The Irish whiskey shop. such as we know H. IN no
more like German beer garden than swiIi trough
Is Ike the dining hall Of the Waldorf Hotel.
DR.. Parkhurst then proceeded at some Length 10
deny the suggestion that the GERMAN rtSuens9 vi
New-York were opposed to the enforcement OF the
law The Germans. he said We're "A law-aDdlng
people. and so long "a the law was equaily, en-
forced they were not against the enactment Oh we
from many Germans who have told me that their
community favored the enforcement OF any eNisl-
Ing law. , T., 800,
II know Theodore Roosevelt and II there Is any
that man is Commissioner Theodore Roosevelt II
he has resOrted to the spy system IL Is tne pllly
way things could be accomplished that have peen
accomplished. The success of the movement Wnlch
ha been force during the past three or TOUT
years depended the spy system; brought IL
into vogue myself. and were similarly situated To-
morrow would institute the same thnB AGAIN
Ny object not 10 Induce people TO coHllhii
crime knew they committing crime, ana
nv object was get evidence against police OF
hsers for their nfidelity to their duty. Roosevelt
did not make saloon-keepers commit crime; ne
knew they were selling beer on Sunday ana ne
policemen to get evidence by Whatever
means they could -
After his speech, DR.. Parkhurst proceeded at once
to the meeting of the Young Mems Society or the
Madison Square Church. over which the Rev j. II.
Denison presided. Preceding DR.. Parkhurst's ar
rival addresses delivered by Frank D. PaVeV,
candidate Senator OF the XVIII District ana the
Rev Dr. Jesse Forbes, the subject OF municlpai
reforms After some euogistc remarks concern
his position in the present campaign ana MS views
upon the Republican ticket.