The herald., 1896-01-21
The Ministerial Union Back at
the Fray
A PETITION TO THE COUNCIL
Some Certain Saloon Licenses to be
Revoked
The Matter Is Referred to the Police Commits
sion Without a Recommended tion-Pro-
test Against Sham Reform


onslaught upon the council, and now off,
cially and formally requests that body to
continue its publication of the Eighth ward
by revoking the licenses of certain resorts
located in proximity of the fence on Ala
media street. The following was yesterday
filed:
TO the honorable city council of Los An
geles, state of California: The ministerial
union would most respectfully ask the
council for another hearing on the great
questions of social and moral reform in
this city.
Whereas, the city council has heretofore
heard our resolutions and ordered the sup
preston of the Alameda street evil, and
the removal of the fence. and revoked the
saloon license of the Horseshoe saloon,
and had the Sunday law enforced;
And whereas, the council has evidently
the right in law to demand the enforce
ment of its orders by the police commits
sion and the chief of police, when the peo-
pie of any section of the city make known
their grievance by petition or through their
legally chosen representatives;
And whereas, there seems to be no other
way to reach the disgraceful and defiant
elements of society and their degraded and
infamous resorts, and their lawless and
corrupt methods except by the expressed
will of the law abiding citizens and tax
payers; therefore, be it resolved:
First-That we congratulate the council
upon the determination and courage they
have shown in their obedience to the wishes
of their constituency in the conflict with
evil in the past.
Resolved, second-That we are confident
that the social evil on Alameda street,
with all it's hideous and dangerous immor-
alties, is made infinitely more dangerous
and immoral by the issuing of saloon
licenses to men who are ranked with and
who are in reality associates with the GRIM
inal elements of the city.
Resolved, third-That we, as Minis
teral union. most heartily endorse the
petition of the women who are owners of
property on Turner street, near the corner
OF Alameda street. who are taxpayers and
respectable housekeepers, who demand
the revocation of the saloon license of the
notorious 300 Saloon, located on the corner
of Alameda and Turner streets.
First-The said saloon is surrounded
with cribs, and their inmates are shame-
less and brazen in their conduct, appear
ing at the windows and otherwise attract
ing attention.
Second-This saloon is located just OPP
posite the switch on the Southern Pacific
railroad where the passenger trains neces-
sarily wait as they come and go from our
city to all other points.
Third-These respectable ladies', many
of whom are widows, depend upon the
rents of their property to decent families
for a living, and they are compelled to wit
ness the most disgraceful scenes and suffer
loss by the removal of tenants.
Fourth-Many of the children who at
tend the Amelia street school are COM
PEELED to pass this corner.
We therefore ask that your honorable
body, as our representatives, do exert all
your legal prerogatives in the case of the
said saloon, and if possible have the said
license revoked and the said saloon closed.
And your petitioners will ever pray
And be it further resolved, that on a par
with this, the above named saloon and the
infamous resort known as the Horseshoe
saloon, the license of which you revoked
two months ago, is the saloon called the
Basket. 1t is located in the same district
and reported TO be conducted upon the
same low plane, and is standing menace
to the good order and peace of the COM
munity. The press of the city has repeat
edy referred to them as vile resorts.
We therefore, in the interest of good
government and reform, in these matters
where the council and the city police COM
mission have power to protect our innocent
and otherwise helpless citizens, most re-
spectfully urge your honorable body to
command the revocation of the license of
the said Basket saloon kept by Jean Le-
meat and located on Ferguson alley. And
your petitioners will ever pray.
And be 1t resolved further:
That the law of the state which forbds
the owners of property renting their houses
for the above mentioned evil purposes
should be made the law of the city, and
these men who are keeping the city in con-
tinual scandal by their quarres and dis
graceful conduct over the fenced territory,
and their evil gains, should be prosecuted
and punished 10 utmost extent of the law.
We, your petitioners, therefore urge upon
y,u the need of an ordinance which will
m eet such an emergency, and its proper
and speedy enforcement.
Be it resolved, further-that the Eighth
ward, with its 14S saloons. with its vast
population of honest and industrious work
ing people, with its large public schools
and industrial interests, needs more police
protection ana a change of policy on the
part of the police commission with refer
ence to granting saloon licenses within its
limits.
And we hereby record our solemn protest
against the sham reform movement which
for a time pretended to close the saloons
on Sunday, and revoked the licenses of five
saloons, and they were noted as ''closed
for REPAIRS" and soon afterward reopened
We are sorry for such manifest weak
ness.
We ask the city council to use its influ-
ence against the issuance of any further
licenses in this ward.
The above was, after full reading, refer
red to the board of police commissioners,
after Rev. J. j. Finley, secretary of the
Ministerial union, had addressed the coun-
Gil in advocacy of the abatement of the
various alleged nuisances complained of.
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