New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1895-08-12

P1NGREE ON THE LIQUOR QUESTION.
WHAT HE THINKS OF THE ENFORCEMENT OF THE
SUNDAY LAws-HE FAvoRs OPEN sA-
Looms. But MORE STRINGENT MEAS
UREs AGAINST DRUNKENNESS.
Mayor II. S. Pingree. of Detroit. returned from
Philadelphia yesterday and spent the afternoon az
the Murray Hill Hotel He left there at O'Clock
for Boston. He greatly interested in the en-
forcement Of the Excise law. Referring the dry
Sunday" he said refectvey: II have been think
ing this matter since the other day, and have
come to the conclusion that this enforcement Of
the law will be detriment TO the party that is
enforcing IT, 1t is all right to say that Demo
cratic Legislature passed the law and that they
should be blamed The people don't look that far
back. They ask the question as to who is enforc-
ing the law. and the answer is Commissioner Roose
welt They don't want any further advice. They
simply wait until they get chance at him, and
they Will do all in their power to worst him.
The question OF liquor drinking is as much a sci
the study OF astronomy is, and the man
that solves the question and secures for the coun-
try a satisfactory Excise law deserves to have
monument erected TO him. In city where have
a mixed population. many of whom are Germans
who are great beer-drinkers. the Sunday-closing
clause cannot help breeding discomfort. We have
notable examples over the country where a party
In power with a great majority back OF Il has at
tempted 10 put end to drinking on Sunday by
closing the saloon. The result has been signal
defeat OF this party a; the polls on the following
election day. Now / not counsellng the evasion
OF the law. The Law is here and Commissioner
Roosevelt is an honest official and by enforcing II
he is only doing what the Police Commissioners
before him should have done. The thing TO do when
Ian becomes obnoxious is 10 repeal II. But before
that is done am afraid II VIII seriously hurt the
party In the State.
III asked what would do about the ques-
Ion / should say that / would revolutionize the
whole system OF selling liquor In the first place /
would do away with the door and the stained
g.ass. Let the sale Of liquor be made as honorable
an occupation the sale Of groceries. Let man
walk into a saloon TO get "A drink as he would walk
In TO buy pound Of coffee. Let the man who gets
the pubic. Let the who sold him the intoxi-
sponsble Let street tables be arranged for as they
in Paris and Germany, and drinking be made as
public possible. Then the secrecy and air OF ex-
c.usiveness would be taken away from II. There Is
an old saying that stolen sweets the sweetest
That Is largely the that a man drinks. He
be ashamed 70 go right out into the open and take
a drink. Tha; Is about the best method that can
suggest
Mayor Pingree is much interested in the selection
o. a successor 10 the late Associate Justice OF the
Supreme Court of the United States. Howell r..
against corporations and naturally he does not want
10 sec corporation man chosen TO NIL the place
He remembers a suit which the late Associate Jus
tice Jackson decided against him. IL involved the
granting OF a franchise TO street railroad conpa-
MES. In Detro: railroad franchises are limited