The age-herald., 1901-11-18
Citizens Near First Avenue and Eighth Street Pass
 Resolutions.
APPEAL TO CITY COUNCIL
Ask That Saloon at First Avenue and Eighth Street be Denied License. clergymen Make Vieor-
 ous Speeches.

More than 100 persons attended mass meeting at the Ninth Street Methodist church last night to protest against the saloon at First avenue and Eighth street, which has been a subject of discus- sion before the city council on several occasions. Several speeches were made and the following resolutions passed
 Whereas, The peace and happiness of our homes have been seriously disturbed, and in some instances domestic life has been rendered almost uncomfortable by pernicious work of the saloon, entailing great sorrow, privation and direst dis tress, and,
 Whereas, Our boys are lured on to vice, gam bling and ruin; and our girls exposed to the peril attendant upon the immoral influences engendered by the saloon; and,
 Whereas, We have suffered until pa tience ceases to be virtue; and.
 Whereas, We have appealed to the parties concerned with no avail; there fore be it
 Resolved, That we, the citizens, mothers, wives and daughters of the community, do hereby enter our most earnest protest against the continuance of the saloon located at the corner of First avenue and Eighth street and that we do hereby ask and insist that no license be issued for the ensuing year, and that we de hereby memorabilia the city council to so ordain
 Resolved further That we will ex- haust every means possible to the end that we obtain the desired relief"
 Council to Get Petition.
 Dr. l.. c. Mann, who presided at the meeting, saiu petition signed by 1855 persons of the community would be pre- sented to the council and every effort made to cause the removal of the saloon Much enthusiasm and determination was manifested at the meeting
 The Rev. T. V. Neal was the first speaker.
 ITO be relieved or not to be relieved, that is the question:" said he. "It is not a question of prejudice but one of good morals and of good influence in a dis tinctive dwelling community or portion of the city. Other dwelling portions are and have been relieved of such unpleas- ant situations why not we?
 ''The saloon should go, because it has not the right of previous possession as has been claimed for it. It has not been here more than eleven years, coming about one year after incorporation. There was no saloon before incorporation. Cor poration made 1t possible here, and since the saloon has proved itself a nuisance after fair trial, and after much suffering on the part of the ones who have to live near it, it should go at their written request
 Tt should go because there is no ex- cuse for its remaining here except for the private gain of single individual When such private gain comes at the ex- pense of the good name, peace and hap piness of community, to say nothing of the moral wrecks made of the young boys, it is not a sufficient reason.
 Same Rights as Other Sections.
 "The saloon should be removed because we have as much right to be free from saloons in front of our doors as other portions of the city, such as the South side and North Highlands, and places from which saloons have been removed. True we have not as much money as they but entirely as much soul, as much appreciation of home, peace and good name, and pay as high rate of tax. True the saloon has paid much money in the city treasury, but 1t makes necessary the presence of policemen in this part of town and thereby costs more than 1t pays while the property owners who pay more into the treasury have signed the petition because their property Is re- duced 50 per cent on account of the presence of the saloon. The claim of only one arrest is untrue, the names of eight persons who have been arrested be furnished on application
 Following the Rev. MT. Neal, Mrs W. H. Jefferies. president of the local w. c. T. U., and secretary of the state organ ization, made a short talk. pleading the support of the order.
 Dr. l.. c. Mann made a talk on the subject, speaking of many cases from personal experiences where much unhap- piness had been traced to the place. Re- ferring to personal rights he said:
 The Question of Rights.
 'If a saloonkeeper has the right to vend liquors, as is claimed; if he has the right to enter the house and make bare the cupboard and floor, to carry conster- nation, ruin poverty and death into the home, then I ask, has not the wife, the mother, the right to protest against his entrance. to barricade the doors, to shut him out and keep him out? Only brute of a husband and father would de- ny her the right to protect her babies from the ravages of the wolf
 And so I say we have the right to protest, and we will do so with all our might
 A. T. Barber made speech along the same lines. The resolutions were then passed and the meeting adjourned.
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