The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1896-06-15

DR.. SCUDDER ANGRY
The Tabernac1e's Pastor
Has Something to Say to
Offending Saloon
keepers.
RITTERS ASSAULT SEVERELY CRITICIZED
Applauds the Aldermen for Re-
stricting the Number of
Liquor Licenses.
RITTER'S ASSAULT SEVERELY CRITICIZED

Pastor Scudder in the Tabernacle last
night in his prelude to the regular SER
mon, had this to say about the Sunday
law Offenders
''The lawless character of the liquor
traffic was demonstrated the past week
by the bold and defiant manner by
which a Law and Order detective was
openly assaulted in broad daylight by
those interested in a prominent saloon
and against whom he had secured
damaging evidence. The foul words
used, tie cruelties inflicted and the
cowardly assault of several r~ufians
upon one defenseless individual aptly
illustrated the low moral sense and
dastardlN spirit of the aw-breaking
element against which the Law and
Order League is c~ontending. This at
tack is one more stupid proceeding
added to the foolish acts recently per-
petrated by the saloonkeepers of this
city. If they maintain their present
ridiculous course they will defeat them
selves, and all the Law and Order
people will have ito do is to stand by
and witness the process of self-destruc-
ton BY such outrageous action the
-saloonkeepers only increase the indig-
nation of the respectable classes and
lose the sympathy of even the lower
classes, who buy their liquor and give
them their support. The tide of D
sition to Sunday opening is constantly
swelling and the general sentiment
against. the ginmills is well exempli1ed
by the recent determination of the
Aldermen to license no saloons having
booths Or private quarters which may
be used for mmora purposes. Thu
papers state thai considerably over one
half of the saloons in this city have
such questionable apartments connected
with them, and this is a revelation that
will mitigate nightly against the sa-
looms and e to place many of them
On the low level of disorderly houses.
The Aldermen of this city deserve es-
pecial commentator for his noble reso-
luton, I'M all decent people praise
tnem for their consc~ientiousness and
pubnc spirit, and TRUST they will rigidiy
adheTe 70 their proposed Improvement.
Jersey City is forging ahead. and it will
tax a great step forward if his new
Aidermanic idea can be carried out to
the letter.
Another sign of stupidity is the in
ability Of the LIQUOR traffic to see the
ldlfference between selling provisions by
a grocer and dispensing whisky by a
A few days ago they ar
rested q man and fined him 50 for sell
ing a box of sardines on the Sabbath
day, under an ancient blue law enacted
IN Ine year 1927, nearly one hundred
JOKE, no doubt, and drunken rowdies
chucKled over 1t as they slipped their
teddy at the bar, but this, like every
ihlng else the liquor traffic has recent
Nv ATI6mntad hQc oafa5 1;Ixo L5Z
ang and injured their waning cause
Men 90 not get drunk ON sardines or
milk or meat, and herein lies an essen
sial .aliterence, patent to all except the
der Leagthe does not favor the opening
OF groceries n meat shops on the
appatn day beyond an hour demanded
'99y aosoiu5e necessity, we nevertheless
70 the people and providing intoxicants
TO men of depraved appetites. The
church people do not advocate the an
n,eIs psue avs OF New Jersey, and this
by the saloon-keepers has made them a
Laughing stock throughout the coIIntryr
All we contend for is a quiet. decent
Sunuay. we want to make Jersey City
q peasant place to live in, and the neo-
PIE are behind us, as the saloon-keenars
VIII eventually find to their cost IN.
stead Of trying to break the law, whv
u 40 NOT sne sal~oon-keepers obey the law
ano lSStilCt l1e1r business IN
the limdts imposed by the statute? Theiy
present course is suidicaI. And now
they are agitating the question Of e.ect.
.ng a new Sheriff next fall who win do
snelr detestable bidding and aid them in
preaking the law, thus again putting
themselves on record as a law-defyin9
and dangerous element. The saloon,
gsepeTs have thrown down the political
ga 81 ana the Law and Order League
VIII doubtless pick 1t up and bend Ire
energies towards securing a Sheriff who
IKE Colonel Toffey, viii do his S,,ty
ahough the entire liquor traffic should
G = 2 against him; Evidently there
Is war ahead, and it will wage aboa,f
the Sheriff's office. When election Il sv
comes, the people will determine wbayt
s, IN OF a Sheriff this city will have.
a ana prsgious % that occasion, for sew.
thing to saw, e soIne-