The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1902-03-04
PREACHERS n OPEN SUNDAY SALoO>o'

-rf4fo n saloons on sunday was made ard nt denHa Inc f""' -
had fused" OF a ticket With Lw for Mayor obtained IN votes 'i 'oo'""a
good men Democrats As Un as Republicans. because Tanma'y openly = ''
that ne law closing The saloons could not ~ ought DO 70 IS enforced :"
pa1auon Of Tanaanys sunday saloon position vas deserved md r. 'f' f"'
:. WHOLE onry cooked q see the Reform Administrations execute The sunday
saloon closing law. Instead ]. that. ~e Sc that Re leaders q Reform are -
voestng open saloons On sunday an refusing to enforce The ~ 'hF CRUISE
Tammany for Designating
rb4re are sim some old fashioned people in New York cry IS elsewhere ~ho 10
not think orcn sunday saloons protected b Reformers ar, any better u" open
saloons protected H. ramman. ana there arc som very Old fashioned .ps'''
who have more respect for the open advocacy Of open sunday saloons '"o' &
after election thar for te hypoertes Il arraignei Tammanys partnership
With vice" md N nov follow virtually the same policy that Tamnany pursued
Tbfs country always had admiration for Mr.. Roosevels nforesment Of III law
While he was Police Commissioners Of Sew York. though his methods we're sub
jeaea to criticism. 1t is the business Of a public officer to enforce the E~ on
the satuteb books If it is bad law. it ought t. Be repealed but an executive
onIcsrs sworn to enforce the law. has no right TO nulnhy it.
The worst feature. however Of the open saloon policy OF The so-'led Reform
administration in New York is not the catering to. the saloon vote by the Rel
rious pretnee. The most deplorable hing eonneeted viii It : the attitude :"
certain eminent divines h have come to te front as advocating or eSeasing the
open saloon on Sunday. IN a recent public address in New York, Dr. Lyman Ao-
bot. formerly pastor of Plymouth church ad now editor OF thu ou'ook. ad
one os he abht men in America said:
:, ~" 30 : sa+tsaa1 vim herbs mave eat them but not let him no eats herbs
say that his ndghtor shall not have meat. would nodernNe hat sentiment
and say that m man who wants to go to church, N sunday should be allowed
to- d m man that n to go put M get a drink o Sunday should hve
equal resdom."
1t sound sstrange to hear a Christian minister ut the church an saloon n the
same plane, not to speako .. h hippant mtsquotaton Of Pauls declaration The
put the bottle to the lips Of the neighbor. ut there is communication in the
pm,o = those who head IL ,aooouions 70 live soberv and attend upon the
mond Christian Advocate says:
The doctor is somewhat at fault in his quotation from Paul but still more 50
lin his modrnlzatron OF the apostles chaihaoN Csdhhs y soy '" "
should nave inc anne lr freedom 10" 20 % ' %" anu ga .anna 1aatmant = trn5es
that the saloon should be as open to him as. h church. For if he has the free
dom to go N get a drink he must hves IN plaee to get it. and surely he
should not be free to get it at al unlicensed Or unlawful place. \ strange utter
mcc the above for a minister Of Cod And yet it is Just this that Mr. Low,
Bishop Potter and Dr. Abbott, with others are oontendms for The hold that
it is better to have saloons opened on sunda thar 70 have liquor sold under
cover. IN other words it is better not to forbid the saeo Q intoxeantso N sun
ment of almost n good Law because there is scarcely any Law that is not liable
to evasion. The trouble in New York is that the right effort is not made to n
orce the law. Its evasion is condoned md connived at"
Bishop Potter has been even more pronounced in endorsing Mayor ovs rel
Sunday open saloons thar Dr. Abbott Whether he is influence in this position
because the Mayor, Mr.. Seth o ', belongs to his church cannot be deter
mined but his position is me thai will shock tho conscience of his church through
out the country. Already brave preachers of his diocese have refused to endorse
it md u William R Huntington, no succeeded Bishop Potter rs rector of Grace
church.. on Broadway, New York, has protested against Tho Low Abbott Potter
Reform" policy OF non-enforoement OF the law against open Sunday saloons, in
a recent sermon on Shall We Abolish Sunday" Dr. Huntington sH:
There is not al educated man Or oma who will deny that the institution
known as smaay has had an immense, a quite inca1cu1abe part in shaping tho
social nd public life of our whole country. Emerson a prophet not overhead
y to the Christian religion as nmo understood called Sunday "tc back
zone Of our civilization feel therefore, at IN no risk Of being charged
With ctateme when say that any attempt to loosen tbs restrictions which
na - - amtnr ahn, hs ,t,v ,na NV ~n %n r1 IN"
ion. at whose beh@t we are low told We must change things, hes come in since
then. If under he law OF universal suffrage ad the prevalence of the will of
he major number of voters. our type Of civilization under which. be it remcn~
ocrca. III our greater trumpns as a people have been aehtevcd-f I say it is
inevitable that under existing political conditions the type must hang, so be it:
but let US not by connibuory negligence as the lavyes call it, make our
elvcs responsible for the loss Of something which once ne it viii be hard in
Upon the aTunen hat law acknowledged to be righteous M wholesome
must be abandoned the moment it comes to be generally believed HI they can
oIuc. " h knows beforehand low mneb o. how nto of law nn - ~ me n ps
until an effort at nforcement an impartial nort-an enot. that is to say which,
knows of 10 distinction between rich nj poor has been made? That is where
The ting lies.
- few weeks ago it vas the policy SHOPS hat old not be suppressed lust
nov it IS the sunday saloon But certainly for a reform dminharauo chosen
on the direct issue Of the ION execution of the laws to start upon it's career
with a tait understanding that certain laws are not to be enfrced. will ba a
most unhappy usury. Let US at least find out by honest experiment lust which,
those laws are that cannot be xecutedb before we pusnlanimou5Iy wipe hem from
tho statute Do0k. lest peradventure in passing our sponge over certain ordinances
of man We blot out" somewhat of the andwfidng Of Almighty God have used
1.-THE word effort. OF course, there must be effort. 1t is a mistake to supposa''
that communities any more than individuals, grow strong by having eyerytbinyl
that is hard or Of the nature OF restraint taken cut of the path. The line Of
least resistance may b the vay Of life in physics, but as Otter a not it is the
way of death in pachs.
I have spoken strongly, friends; but hi is a great city, its example is might
lily potent for good or for evil the country over. nd the minister of ,.,i.l.I