The sun., 1901-11-13
TIE LIQUOR QUESTION.
Discussion Of the Propositions for New
Legislation Regarding II.

Discussion OF the Propositions for New
| Legislation Regarding II.
To THE EDITOR or THE SuS-Sir: To legal
| ize the Sunday saloon bids fair to be q first
| fruit OF the great reform victory This will
prove a most thorny road All the temper
ance societies OF the State. the united clergy.
| Protestant and Catholic. with few exceptions.
the almost united motherhood. are forces
that IL is not wise to antagonize. The reform
| government will make a grevous mistake
| II II handicaps itself at the start by cooling
the enthusiastic support Of these classes.
| Besides. there Is a big maiority--hayseed
| morality" we may call Ito overcome In
the Legislature. ht It's best. It Is a bcastly
| business that justiaes words like these OF
John sherman IN Success OF last December
| Abandon liquor as you would abandon q
pestilence. for liquor wrecks more lives
| than all OF the horrors of the world combined
| But the evils that MIR. jerome and our Mayor
| elect aim TO correct by Sunday opening are
| real How can they he met squarely in a
way that will take them out Of politics' II
seems to me in bnly one way. This Is a de-
mocracy-the majority should rule Let US
settle the liquor question In New York city
by a ward local option. At a special election
| In the spring. or at the next regular fall cleo
ton, let these questions be submitted to the
voters:
Shall liquor license be granted in this ward'
Yes No.
Shall saloons be permitted to open from
TO 10 p NJ, on Sunday Yes. No.
In the effort TO carry this measure through
tho Legislature | feel sure there can be secured
IA union Of nearly all Temperance forces in the
State. as we'll as OF all air-minded liquor
men On the other hand. legislative enact
mert to open the saloons on Sunday will be
fought desperately at every inch Of its prog
ress Let the maj jorty rule. II this segregates
the evil II will be done by the consent only
Of the locality which desires and votes for IL.
Men elected as we're Low aud Jerome cannot
but sec the meaning in the words OF Lincoln
after Gettysburg. -Gentlemen. there are
unseen forces i. X FUNE.
Nkw YORK. Nov, IL
To THE EDIron OF THE Srr-Sir. The
problems of the liquor question" and Of
the social evil receive right consideration
from the District Attorney-clect Of New York.
II In him sincerity Of purpose is Joined with
moral courage
Justice Jerome 10 reported TO have said re-
Gently. Certainly the most important gisla-
ton Is the reform of the liquor law IL
should be reformed so As 10 take politics out
Oft II IL q serious thing that In any bust
ness persons should he ostraciZed by reason
of their connection with that business
Heretofore legislat ION relative 10 the
-hquor question" has apparently been
based upon politics aud enforced IN weakness
rather than efl.ctlveness Legislators under
pressure Of necessity and the insistenoe Of
the moral forocs' enact excise laws and
having thereby left the real question un-
touched are content Consequently the
gradual suppression Of the liquor uaffo
under police regulations has not proved a
Conspicuous success Nor indeed could Il be
n We consider the thought back Of sucL legis-
latiou license tar rests on th. sssump-
tiou thst as debauchsry. slualor, poverty.
criminsL.y aud madness are the necessary
ooucouitAlts Of the tfaffic. II should there
fore help reimburse tL" rtat" for the cost of
msitteualcc Of asyluns. jaAs and houses Of
dei.ntlon tbs virtually makes the stat.
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