The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1896-04-13
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BAD JOB JERSEY CITY
Dr.. Scudder and the Rev.
Mr.. Raboteau Denounce
the Working of the
Raines Law.
THE POLICE ARRAIGNED'
Services in The Various Churches
Throughout The City
Yesterday.

- CrftQltSf tS aliQLS III Ike EdT1iiy A4C
mortal and First Baptist Churches list
ened to strong sermons on the evils of
the enforcement Of the Raines law in
New York and the consequent fragrant
violation of the Sunday liquor laws in
this city.
In the Parmly Memorial Church the
Rev. Claude Raboteau handled the sub
ject without gloves and hauled the police
over the Goals in an unusual manne
The apparent incompetency or refusal
of the police to enforce the Sunday law
Were his principal points. Among other
singing things he said:-
st would appear tina the reputation
New Jersey now enjoys is about as small
as her geographical limits, and Camden
and Jersey City are the cateh-alls for
the lawlessness and vice of New York
and Philadelphia, and hence our State
is condemned for sins not her own. We
have enough crime In our own borders,
Heaven knows, without being a reposi-
tory for the overflow from our sister
States.
Our public boards and municipal au-
thorities have long displayed their in
competency to grapple with our native
law breakers, and when they are con-
fronted, as they are today, with a
volume of imported 1awlessness the moral
element Of the community feel and fear
that a crisis is at hand.
Mr.. Roosevelt is enforcing the Raines
law in New York and people are re-
joicfng to see how it will drive saloon
enough for New York, but we who live
in New Jersey see certain results in the
operation of the law which show US that
no material good is being accomplished.
III v cirnnlU nhlTuQS fhn lnaaffnr ~ fhn
evil. To transfer vice from one section
to another is not to destroy it, but only
to afford a new field for operation. New
York may delude itself that because the
Sunday law is vigorously enforced within
its borders a long advance has been
made toward public order and social
decency- THEORETICALLY. this may be true.
but practically, it is false. tits of small
account whether drunkenness and its
attending evils run riot on his or the
other side of the North River, and if
City is going to have ali of New York's
Sunday vice, In addition to its own. +
fail to see that the law will be of any
benefit to the moral welfare Of our
country.
THE laws of New Jersey are shame
fully lax and most wretchedly enforced,
and yet while the New York statutes
were Just as lax we did not realize the
full extent of our own sad condition.
There was then no special Involvement
for the thirsty to come here from New
i OiA Oi ouuudSS IL pdlTOIllZe our local
saloons. especially when they could get
as good liquor at home. But when last
Sunday they streamed into our city by
thousands, crowding the ferries to suffo-
emptying all the beer kegs in the city,
we loeked or with CONSERVATION and
realized as never before how utterly
pitiable were our laws and how incom-
pete4t those we have appointed to en-
force them are.
Our police ann deal with our law
SEEKERS from New YORK oasn t TRe R aaines
law has stopped the leak In only one
place, but it is leaking in another with
Increased volume. What is running our
country today is sthe curse of intemper-
ance and the shameless power of the
liquor saloon as a c~orrupting factor in
politics.
What we want is the Chief of Police
of our city to enforce the Sunday liquor
law. If the citizens cannot be aroused
to that extent, that u police officials
was a sad day when the Ratnes bill was
passed. ItN would be far better for New
York to slip back into the control of
Taramany Hall with it's gigantic system
each Sunday for the human slop poured
in on us from across the river.
1T would not be a profitable or a
pleasant experience to review the affairs
of that the better. This week we shall
have an election and ! suppose we shall
exchange the weedledum for tweedledee.
But one thing we are certain of, our
public officials have shown no dispo-
sition to enforce the laws in the past,
nor will they in the future unless the
up in their righteous Indignation to
teach those whom we have elected to
serve us that they are our servants and
we demand obedience.
avenue and Montgomery streets were
packed to the doors. | saw a steady
stream of men go in and out side doors
of some of our prominent saloons for
the half hour I watched. Some of the
saloons did close, | am told, but onlv
because they had sold out their stock
and no New. Yorker could be induced to
drink that. Where were the police? They
were where they always we're, very busy,
doing nothing.
in operation we must do something for
Jersey City, or4We shall speedily become
a mammoth Sunday beer garden. Public
been patient and suffered long in silence.
but the limit of endurance has been
reached, The moral welfare of our city
sinew muster together and put the pres
sure on the local officials the Raines bill
win work havoc with US. Our men do
b fsraaf Il r. 4be N cisv aodk n AND tax az no IN
ton In our local politics, the shameless
laxity in enforcing law.
"A great ev1f menaees our moral we'll
being. a Is openly and ~fagrantly de-
fed. and those who ought to enforce it
lie back indifferently and watch the
shameful violation with blinking eyes.
Public sentiment should BIZ AROUSED
and made into a mighty moral force and
used as a batter.ng ram to beat against
the police headquarters till 1t brushes
and the thirsty sufferers of the Rainas
law viii seek other fields for their Sun
day excursions.
PREACHED ON THE THIRD TERM
AT the Linden Avenue NJ. E. Church
yesterday the Rev. {. F. Hull preached
vt the morning service on THE Third
Term Ar. Hull did not apply his text
to political matters, for he Is opposed to
dragging matters polite into the pulpst.
His remarks referred to d third term
Of more interest to himself This ii nfs