The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1899-06-13
CHURCH MEMBERS PROTEST
BUT THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES
IGNORE THEM.
There VIII be Sunday Concerts, but
Public Money will Not be
Used for Them.


Public Money will Not be
Used for Them.
Al the meeting of the City Board
OF trustees last night trustees Mckay,
1eppets. Paine, Douglas, Dolan, Kent,
levine and Brown were present
The protest of citizens against appro-
pr1atlon of public money for Sunday
night concerts was taken up, and w.
bartels of the Concert Committee re-
ported that the committee had resolved
10 take the $50 appropriated and put
more with it from the subscriptions,
ana expend it for weekday concerts.
Iney also asked permission to use the
flaza for concerts.
=. II. Dunn said that there had been
no protest made against the weekday
concerts, but there certainly would be
strong protest against the use of the
Plaza belonging to the public for uses
that were opposed to the conscientious
scruples of q, large portion of the com
munity, whose sentiments were, he
thought, entitled to considerati ton.
When the open-air concerts were hrst
started. for two or three years they
were held on Tuesday and Friday
nights. and the Sunday night concert
are an innovation since that time.
They have now been running for some
years. in spite of the protest against
them by citizens, and he thought the
committee should return to the old
system, and every one would be suited.
If all the concerts were on week nights,
almost every citizen would have a
chance to attend them, while now a
large proportion will not attend them
on Sunday nights. The use Of the Plaza
for such purposes on Sunday night, he
considered detrimental to the training
Of the youth of our city. A great many
young people take their ideas of right
and wrong from what they hear and if
the Trustees indorse it they will think it
is right, and that those who teach them
to respect Sunday are wrong. He
thought the committee should give up
the point, as week days will do we'll
enough. Youth of the city will think
that if prominent citizens, elected by
the vote of the people, indorse Sunday
night concerts that it is no harm. He
thought the board should yield to the
protest of respectable minority Of
citizens as a matter of conscience, and
let all the people enjoy the concerts.
The resolutions adopted on Sunday
night at the Sixth-street Methodist
Church We're read, as Well as petitions
presented by Rev. A. B. Banks from
the First Baptist Church, Christian
Church. Methodist Church South and
Central Methodist Church, against the
appropriation and use of the Plaza for
Sunday night concerts.
MR.. BOHL'S IDEAS.
Peter Boil said the principle of do
mating funds from the City Treasury
for any such purpose as free concerts
was wrong. The money raised by
taxes from the people is for govern
mental purposes only If the concert
people can ask for money to be APP
propriated for concerts, the churches
have an equal right to ask an appro-
priation for their purposes, which are
to help people to do right. There is no
objection to concerts ON week nights,
but no public money should be appro-
priated for them. He would be OPP
posed to his church or any others ask
ing for a dollar, and the committee
has no more right than the churches
to ask for money. He hoped the
board would decide in accordance with
its own judgment
Trustee Brown said the appropriation
had been made from the immigration
fund, which was raised for Fourth of
July celebrations and other things, to
induce immigration.
Mr.. Boil said the immigration fund
was not for concerts or institutions
anita onistic to good government
REV A. B. BANKS
Thought all should desire the welfare
of the city and should try to uplift it's
morals. He had been called down on
a former occasion for saying that it
was an immoral city, but he had trav-
eled all over the coast, and as far north
as Puget Sound he had heard the city's
morals criticised. He believed Sunday
was the time for us to stop and think
1t was a good thing for men to do He
hoped the Trustees would give young
and old one day in the week to them
selves, to imbibe ideas that will uplift
the city.
MAJORITY SENTIMENT.
Mr. Bartels said that at first the
concerts We're ON Tuesday and Friday
nights, but he found the sentiment in
favor of Sunday night The shopmen
did not feel like dressing up after they
had done their work, to go to the con-
certs. He thought the majority were
in favor of Sunday night concerts.
Mr. Banks asked why Wednesday
night, the night of the universal pray
meetings, had been pitched upon for
the concerts.
Mr.. Bartels said he did not know,
but there was no Intention to interfere
with the meetings.
Trustee Paine asked if it was not
right to donate money to churches for
their taxes.
Trustee Devine said he had never
favored the appropriation. He moved
that the action of the board be rescind-
ed. but met with no second.
s. F. Kiefer told of a wealthy Iowa
man who came with his children to this
here. He went down K and J streets
on Sunday. however. finding the sa-
looms and other attractions in full blast
and went back East on Monday, say
ing they were at least partially civil
fzed in Iowa, but he did not think they
We're here.
Trustee Dolan said the board had ap-
propriated the money and he thought
it had the same right to do it as to