The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1896-10-03
MINING.
"A strong Temperance Lesson What
Are our Officers \ bouIl


The evidence given at the coroner's in
quest over the remains OF the Finn who
lost his life when Phillips barn at Rem.
ova was destroyed by fire early last Mon
day morning disclosed the fact that the
unfortunate man had been drinking all
doy 10 the saloons at that place. How
ever the poor man came TO his death, il
may fairly be surmised that drink was
the cause OF it and il may as fairly be
supposed that If these saloons had not
been running, apparently, wide open all
day, the deceased would not have been
absent from his home and be would most
probably have been now alive. The
other Finn, from BOllmann'scamp. swore
that he had been most of the day at the
saloon near where the fire occurred and
at night was 30 drunk that, finding be
could not get home, he lied down on the
roadside by the candy store and slept
until the cracking noise OF the fire awoke
him.
To man up tree it would look az If
this evidence would justify the authori-
Ties IN al once taking proceedings against
the saloOnkeepers IN that neighborhood.
But no. 1t would appear az if there we're
sort oil charm woven around these peo-
pie, within which the officers of the la.
are Tor some reason afraid to venture il
1t were not 80, how can one account for
the officials who heard the evidence sitting
quietly by instead OF at once ordering a
complaint to be made against the law
breakers.
The editor Of the News is not prohibi-
Zionist, although the way these saloons
are allowed To run is almost sufficient TO
drive any decent-miuded citizen to be-
come one. lie readily admits, however,
that much, II not most Of the crime and
misery in the world il caused by drink.
and does believe that the saloonkeepers
should be made TO keep their part OF the
bargain which they vir ually enter into
when they take out their license, which il
that thy should not keep open after IL
O'Clock, at the least, and should not open
on Sundays.
Many oil rreaders, particularly those
who were born in Continental Europe.
clam there il no harm in a saloon being
open on Sundays. They may be partial.
~ right, but surely even these people
must see the harm that was done
through the Renoya saloons being open
last Sunday-and history repeats itself.
These people should remember that when
in Rome IL is usual to do a. the Romans
do and, therefore, they should willingly
submit their appetites to the will of the
majority, who made the law, and absent
themselves from saloons on SUNDAYS. n
they do not wish to d o go but desire to
live under the Continental rule, why. there
is nothing 20 prevent their shipping
themselves back to whence they came
aud they may rest assured no one will
miss them, for there il no chance of sucb
p rsons ever becoming good citizens. in
the true sense OF the word, of this free
and enlightened republic
Unfortunately, for the peace of many
families this keeping open on Sundays il
not the only, nor to our mind the worst,
way the saloonists in this neighborhood
are allowed to infringe the law. for, not
withdrawing the fact that the law clear
ly states no saloon shall be allowed open
after l ! O'Clock at night, and that the
blinds should be drawn up during the
hours the saloon IL closed, il is an open
secret that many saloons are kept.open
long after the legal hour of closing and
probably there il not more than one sa-
loon In the village where the nightwatch-
man could see, during the prohibited