New-York tribune., 1901-12-11
Sci LECTIONS FROM THE NAIL
WHO WANT THE SUNDAY SALOON?
BREWERS, NOT WORKINGMEN, WOULD
PROFIT BY IT-A PROTEST FROM
WORKER AMONG THE POOR
To the Editor of The Tribune.


To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: Some of your readers are scanning your col
uruns daily to ascertain who really want the Sun
day barrooms. Men advocate this violation of the
Decalogue in behalf of other men, or a community
Of men of foreign birth, but never for themselves
So far as my reading has gone, no writer has SAID
II demand for myself the right to buy beer or wine
OF spirits on Sunday No woman has said, so far
as 1 can recall: My husband is deprived OF MS
rights as a man of foreign birth; appeal IN MS
behalf for an open barroom the day after he re-
ceives his weeks wages" is possible that chill
dren have gone around with petitions for Sunday
opening. appealing for signatures on the ground
that their fathers are so far committed 10 .heii
Guns that they cannot live without their dram from
Saturday midnight till Monday at a; m, but none
has been brought to me MoT are Nav the I the
saloonkeepers themselves as BODY are making an
The sincerity of the clergymen and the politicians
who pleading the cause OF the worklnsedhi can
of which they speak is open 10 question. Inc ma ma
sy f IF no 69e b brth Il is an to their
ism. to speak Of their inteigsnes to picture re
State laws the majority spend the hours of the
Lords day with their families many are memhsfs n f
MED that many M o1brs snd n rhr cdae eT
eat meat and with no more thought of intemper-
or in the sne Gase .nam m
necessary in order that they may have Deer
When PRESIDENT Roosevelt closed the Sunday sa-
looms in 1885. the sef-respectng Workingman VINO
sesn sfuTdas GG boeed beer supplied the
mandsnet Of the dsunhaI sqt OF is ths ad SssS
privation was endured, the law was enforced and
the side door open by stealth or legally invites
the father or son; the quiet and good orasr OF @ te
during the writer's residence of more than thirteen
years in this part Of the city.
pastors and missionaries and church workers who who
daily t Kio as thf It xsts today do not recoect
letter single chapel or mission pastor asking
,bot- haS Solo he
ingly easy for some of the clergymen who visit
Europe annually, or even occasionally; 20 SPEAK
New-York and not Munich. and the pastors Who
i've among the poor and t aPof M eherf t aR Tean
American. and not become legally continental
scribe a fund of several thousand dollars upon
which the workers among the poor may draw Wnen
buy food i and Clothing for families who suffer be
poor they will at least show their sympathy with
their toiling brethren as well as their interest IN te
tafor potican f and easy
who. then. does want the Sunday saloon: Many
families, the victims of its ravages, believe that
back of the present sgtation or OF the one b wnIcn n
or control the majority of the @ sa @
SUNDAY than on any other two days of the week
and they rejoice in the efforts of their new alies
When have carried food on Sunday to mother;
whom knew TO be starving because ner s th
time, she has said more than once: ,
and then and the older children do not complain
much but when am nursing the naGy h eets
real cross. when have had nothing at all 10 eat
Instead of opening the saloons now legally closed
sunday let the friends of those who Psaronize Pat
ent law and then help to frame new provisions
that shall wipe out the .Ranes hotels Not more
Mhd oy l9r the @ laws and punishment for
who dehantiy break Idfa1 thsm- pANcRoF-r DEv1Ns.
New-York, Nov. 30, 1901,