Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1895-07-10
A GREAT TEMPERANCE VICTORY IN N. Y.

A GREAT TEMPERANCE VICTORY IN N. Y.
"Dryest Sunday New York has wei
seen, twas the unanimous verdict given
yesterday on the excise situation by
the citizens, police and barroom keepers
themselves.
y From the Battery to the Bronx there
was naught but an arid waste, and
strong, indeed, must have been the
pull and close the friendship which
enabled q thirsty client to get beyond
the portals Of his favorite haunt.
THEY LAUGH NO MORE.
Law and order was observed all
along the line, and yesterday 3 expert
ence must have convinced thousands
of skeptics that the barroom proprietors
could be brought to bay and made to
respect a law which they had formerly
laughed at.
Never within the memory of the
Oldest inhabitants did New York see
such a day. In these few cases where
attempts were made to do business the
ordinary "lookouts" were not trusted,
but the proprietors themselves were
ION the chain" and only those per-
sonally known to them were admitted.
The total number of arrests made
yesterday was 1876, against 21O of the
previous Sunday.
NO PERSONAL MUNICIPAL reform WHILE
WHILE H SALOON LASTS.
There will certainly be no permanent
municipal reform so long as America
tolerates the saloon. Men who know
how political campaigns are managed
in municipal affairs will not accept a
nomination which by common custom
makes them the prey of every beer
singer. We have known reform candi-
dldates for judicial benches who were
without a stain upon their names or q
vice of which they could be accused,
led from bar to bar that they might
win the vote of the slums by free beer.
Nothing SO speaks to us the degradation
OF politics as this. In many of our
cities the Sabbaths before q municipal
election are simply pandemonium let
loose. The bartender poses as the die.
tator of American destiny. There is no
candidate too lordly to do him obeis-
ance. Between rival parties he con-
sciously holds the balance of power.
His royal scepter is a beer faucet. By a
nod he makes or unmakes the credit of
cities whose multitudes wouldonce have
constituted an empire. Shut up tho
saloons from the day of the first eau
Gus until the election is decided and
municipal politics would reform them
selves. So long as the saloon door
stands ajar at every corner of the street
the affairs of cities will probably be
managed by men who are not above
purchasing the privilege from the brew.
cries. 1t is not a cheerful outlook, even
for the most confident optimist. The
Chicago Interior.
LADIES BETTER THAN POLICE.
The editor of the Barton vt Mont
tor, in his report of their town meeting
last week, says:
An episode in the meeting was the
presence of several ladies, one of whom,
Mrs. A. d. Chandler, of Barton Land.
ing, availed herself of the right to vote
ON the matter of school directors. Mr..
Wiley, Principal of the Academy, took
his school into the hall to get a few
points on civil government, as shown
by the meeting. The school and the
ladies happened to come in just at a
time when the scene was the most bois.
ferrous and the proceedings most crazed.
When the actors came to discover that
they were exhibiting themselves to no
particular advantage in the sight of the
visitors, they Gained down. If the
presence Of a few ladies will work such
a change as that, they ought to be
present at every meeting of the kind.
In Wyoming, it is said that 'in eau
Gus discussions, the presence of a few
ladies is worth a whole sqaud of police.
Mrs. Mary Cleary Duncreux is not
only President Of the New York Screw
Mandatory, but q practical working
mechanic, who iuspects all the output
CT her establishment, and who can
turn out first class cabinet screws, gun
screws, watch screws and machine
screws. She has been in the business
for seventeen years, and maintains, as
the result of her own experience, that
girls have quite as much ingenuity
and manual dexterity as boys, and
lack training only, and not capacity,
to become as good mechanics.
A Candid Youth.