The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1902-02-11
LEGALIzED EVILS--NO. IS.
BY JOHN DANNER.


The wonderful difference between
community cursed with legulized evil
and community blessed with laws
enacted by the people and for the
people, prohibiting liquor selling and
other kindred evils, Is fully set forth
In letter recently written by Hon.
Gideon T. Stewart, of Norwalk, Ohio
who has been sojourning In Pasadena,
California.
Gideon r. Stewart is an intelligent
lawyer, now past eighty years Of age.
and one of the very first. to vote the
prohibition ticket thirty-three years
ago, and still casts the same ballot
He says: 7"tt 'fr re.
Accompanied by my daughter Mary,
who had just returned from few
months tour in Europe, I arrived here
on December 10th. We found all the
physical charms attributed to Pasade-
ma surpassed by the most beautiful
realities. 1t has more than six hun
dred feet elevation over Los Angeles,
above sea level; is about nine miles
from that city and thirty miles distant
from the ocean. 1t is flanked by lofty
mountains, rising up to six or seven
thousand feet from sea level, approach
ed to their summit by electric and
steel cable railways. These heights
protect the city from storms and cold,
and are crowned with snow, while the
valleys at their feet are blooming with
perennial roses. On the first day of
January every city celebrates its tour
nament of roses, as New Orleans does
its carnival of Madri Gras When
the recent cold wave swept over our
country from Canada to the Gulf of
Mexico, with from five to ten degrees
below zero in Ohio, and near zero at
Mobile, while the telegraph reported
persons and animals frozen to death
in nearly all the southern as we'll as
northern states, in walking out through
the streets and avenues Of Pasadena,
sought shelter from the too ardent sun
under the shade of Magnolias, palms,
pines, pepper trees, umbrella treas,
orange and lemon trees, and many
other evergreen, fruit and Towering
trees, vines and foliage plants invest
ing the public ways.
But / was far more pleased to find
that while the city was so rich in trees
bearing yellow harvests of oranges and
other delicious fruits, 1t was more rich
in the golden fruit of prohibition.
Looking through its daily papers 1
could see no. liquor advertisements or
police reports of dram4shop origin; or
through the city itself, no whisky,
beer or wine saloons along the sides
OF the fine residence avenues and bust
ness streets; not the slightest appear
ance of drunkards or drunkard max
ing; of any dens of rum, gambling or
vice. found in any direction; no beg
gars or novels of poverty visible; but
that, on the contrary, the city was full
of beautiful homes, elegant churches
aud public schools; that all its electric
cars and walks were thronged with in
telligent, well-dressed, kind and cour-
teous people, and all the arteries of
business seemed flowing with prosper
ity and wealth. p
"But few weeks ago loan of $780,
900 was voted by the citizens almost
without opposition, to augment its pub
lie parks, ways and other improve
ments. That it is eminently prohibi-
tion city is evident from the precious
and abundant proofs which it manifests
to the eyes of every visitor.
81 went to its free public library, es-
tablished by the people, in a. fine stone
edifce with nearly seven thousand
volumes on its shelves, at cost of
over $4,000, and there I found in the
published charter of the city, the good
secret of success. 1t bears date of
August 6, and was ratified by q vote
of its qualified citizens with much
unanimity on Nov. 90, 1900, and was
duly approved by the state authorities.
1t expressly and totally prohibited and
suppressed all faro banks, games OF
chance gambling houses, bawdy
houses. saloons, barrooms or other
places where spirituOus, malt vinous or
other intoxicating liquors are sold or
fSven away; and any and all obnox-
ious, offensive, immoral, indecent or
disreputablc places or practices within
the said CITY,, under penalty of fines
up to $500, or Imprisonment six months
or both.
ut Is needless to add that this law of
the people, by and for the people, is by
them most rigidly enforced. On such
a moral basis, Pasadena stands forth
uhuCi LILO WCii hhOWn duu Ii0IiLtQ
title of The City Of Churches No
money is spared to support and beau
tify it's many schools, colleges and
churches. A very beautiful brown
stone church was completed by the
First Methodist Episcopal church at
the cost OF $4,000, and was dedicated
few weeks ago free from debt. The
city of Los Angeles. like that Of San
Francisco, has its abundant liquor sa-
looms, and its Chinatown. Pasade-
ma has its neat Chinese mission church
founded and sustained by the strong
Methodist church. which thus so no.
bly, illustrates its Christian gospel, Of
the strong supporting the weak. There
are twenty-four Catholic and Protes-
ant Christian churches In this city and
they are all resplendent In the same
gospel armor against the devil and