New-York tribune., 1901-10-05
LOW OUTLINES ISSUES.
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oughly demoraiizing thing could be believed.
The partnership between city officials and pro-
tected vice and crime must be made impossible,
and when policemen are to be tried for offences
against discipline they ought to be sure Of COM
ing before a capable, upright and impartial
judge L assure every honest man upon the
force. who bushes with shame at the discredit
in which the department has become involved.
and / doubt these are in a large majority,
that share his righteous indignation, and that
shall spare effort to restore to the force as
body the respect and confidence of the citizen.
word upon the excise question is also de-
sirable, for the difficulty here is only partially
understood by the people. The excise law con-
tains two provisions. both of which are we'll in
tended, but both of which, in their application
to the city Of New-York, with it's cosmopolitan
population, are sources of very serious evils not
contemplated by the law. / refer to the pro-
vision under which have sprung up the so-called
Raines law hotels and to the clauses prohibiting
the sale OF liquor at all hours on sunday.
HOTEL CLAUSE CONDEMNED.
The hotel clause is an attempt to define a
hotel in such terms to permit the sale of
liquor on Sunday, under reasonable conditions:
but the effect Of the requirement that there
shall, be certain number of rooms to consti-
attachment that lends itself TO unspeakabl BILE
infamy. There was a similar, though, i pre-
sumo, not an identical provision in the Excise
law as IL stood twenty-five or thirty years ago,
but it repealed, because then, as now. it
became in practice very offensive.
The clauses prohibiting the sale giving
away Of liquor on Sunday. despite the good in
tent of those who advocate them, lead to an
other class of evils. because they conflict with
the habits of so large proportion of the popu-
lation and because they interfere as these con-
rceive with personal liberty in matters that do
not properly come under the regulation of the
law. At the present time it is matter of be-
lief, so general as to amount to common knowl-
edge, that liquor dealers escape interference
from the police on Sunday by paying for ii, While
those who do pay are prosecuted. And thus
these provisions of law that intended TO be
in the public interest are made a source of pub
den Or1 liza for here iS q
crop Of lying perjury, bribery and political cor
ruption that is like fostering sore i'll the BODY
=. polite.
All this would be bad enough if these clauses
accomplish their object of actually preventing
the sale of liquor on Sunday; but they do not
60 even this 1t may be considered certain, al
ter much experience. that in this community
these clauses of the excise law that forbid the
sale Of liquor Sunday in saloons are not COM
petent TO accomplish more than to prevent the
public sale of liquor on that day; they never
have stopped. and they never can stop drinking
on Sunday. Inasmuch attempt is made
to do this in clubs or in hotels. many OF the
poor complain that the law is harsh in failing
TO take into consideration the conditions under
which they are obliged TO live.
NO EXTREME ENFORCEMENT.
And thus feeling of soreness. born of sense
Of inequality of treatment. is added to the gen
eral evils traceable TO these clauses of the law.
These matters may well attract the attention
of the legislators, for some OF these evils can
not be wholly abolished without change OF
the law In the mean while. the law as II
stands while il remains unaltered, must be ad-
rninstered in the best practicable manner.
should spare effort to put a stop, during my
\ term, to the bribery and corruption at present
traceable it. not forgetting again. in the pres
n ence of the facts as / have outlined them, that
"the extreme of the law is the extreme OF IN
Justice"
The eliminating charge against Tammany
Hall is that il gives us government that Is
tyranny: for the government of Tammany Hal
is a government by favoritism, and favoritisH
in government is tyranny.
I aDppal citizen VINO loves MS city.
who values equal rights for all men. and who
realizes that a corrupt government corrupts 1ts
citizens, TO strive increasingly from now unt
Election Day to wrest the control of the city
from those who have brought it into its presen'
evil case. 1t is not enough 10 elect the Mayor
In order to control the Board of Estimate. the
p Controller and the President of the Board OF
Aldermen must be elected with him. 1t is
PLEASURE to find myself upon city ticket Win
candidates for these offices who so thoroughly
deserve the public support. Very respectfully
SETH LOW.