New-York tribune., 1902-02-03
HE PRAISES MAYOR LOW
DIR. ri. P. NICHOLS SAYS THE EXCISE
QUESTION SHOULD BE WEIGHED
CAREFULLY

CAREFULLY.
The Rev. DR.. H. P. Nichols in the Church of
Ahe Holy Trinity, OF Harlem, at Lenox-ave. and
iOne-hundred- and acknowledgements, spoke last
might the excise question -Four principles,
he said, were involved in the question of Sunday
opening-Sunday and the saloon being the major
principles and law and municipal reform the
minor principles.
DR.. Nichols said that Sunday was for rest and
worship. and that while the law did not enforce
rest and worship the individual it protected
gthe individual from any interference with or
Intrusion upon them. He continued:
The american Sunday us is human institution ft1 on
ahd s e ee
on Sf the b Te T1ay Is diff
fferent day, a quiet day, religious day; modihed
ferent and primarily religious. We have come to
consider more things necessary on Sunday then we
the selling Of hot meals in restaurants-no longer
neT always 1s 0n Selling we Of faG milk 'Gs the
anng s Of the ss KEEPING en- of te
the Sunday newspaper p tn the selling Of meat in the
ed g as s 5T 5S 6t as4 sa6e to 2o 3e
she question of whether beer is right an not
necessary? Certain classes of people have leisure
20 drink beer. Shall it be Illegal to obtain it pub
phe first question is, Should the selling of liquor,
LEGAL on other days be made legal for time on
a The second moral and religious question Is the
nance and prohibition quite different from the
Seer garden TO be considered with the saloonEthe
German beer garden, where there is more OF music
and family enjoyment than consumption of beer?
Temperance people total abstainers. prohibition
an deserve the highest praise. They are people
0ggndy sPa IN aiming baH a at he righteous e Ts
nre that will accomplish that. All schemes that
There is always danger, that in the emphasis i
tlays its own truth, IT misses other aspects Of
as he
tive point of the question. II is Sunday rather
aioons9 on sunday 'iI9 bu always " "O 10 ''OS' 'e
Men who advocate Sunday opening are just
much in the who denounce il. I
sorry to say that intemperance is found
not m merely in that bIacksusTd in kentucky who
called the Bishop Of New-York names. but in some
of clergy and in the editors of
church papers The men who advocating
@ a%e aTe en Gi ProfouGdy R eanes so in % Behalf
OF h 58 Sf Thy yea1 fag Is deP and and ene sFs
m5g to md IT. venture to predict da that most 3
our preachers and temperance advocates. They
know the evils they trying to abate. they know
that are wsest / feel there should be distinct
tribute Of honest admiration paid to Mayor Seth
Low and his administration and that no asPersion SION
Grated. ANY such imputation on the part OF any
one could have more sacriicingly heart the in
terests OF this city than Mayor Low and his ad-
Be tolerated at ali? The Solution Of one may be
IS not 70 be decided on. the basis of one alone.
The third moral and Felig9gs question Is +,HK isT
tit is not the business Of law to make men good
sumPtuary legisl alton aims 10 make men en- gooo 2g
law. but many Of us think that is not the way TO
accomplish that end but rather that i9 the start
signed for Preventng men from injuring % their
some discretion allowed to the executor. one of
our foremost clergymen assured me that this Is
ali law permits Discrimination TO the executor"
You have all read the reply reply Of T. Mayor ts Low tsrd to D
TO be no concentraton of the entire police force
ooaTqi ana + % m re eh and brherv The third
not shall 1t be allowed TO stand?
ondary or minor question. because IT is indl-
rect than the others. We are engaged in the great
that is political problem does it make It any
tTfotism is next 10 EodIiness civil Righteousness
is the best kind Of righteousness we know anything
10 DO this year is to see if it is possible 70 admin
stee grs9t s bana Tbere are worse things
than drunkenness. The corruption Of public NOR
bishop Of York said y would rather have England gland
free than England sober Be meant II was %0Tse
upon human Freedom by the sumptuary system
its own problem even in a free Indulgence of in
Temperance It Is my GonSon afr t9af II II were @
perilied. after the great victory We have gained
hands OF corrupt men and placing It in the hands
Of ge e 40d % Te WaT e ea city of
New-York. made up Of varied populations canEot
be governed ali at once along Ile nneS OF
r,tfnicipa lites. There other types than ours
that make up the metropolis, and their inherent
1sages are be considered. There must be dis
cretion in enforcing the laws Don't lost the good
while reaching after the better. Idealism is good,
but the standards set up all along the high
way until the ultimate ideal is reached; but he
eho viii not accept the first second ideal will
never reach the final
You ask now for my conclusion ! haven't made
shts address with the purpose of giving a conclu-
sion The question is one entirely too important
Everything must be weighed carefully to come to a
final conclusion Of this matter. ] would Ike TO
assert four points First. ii is always better do
the right that lies before It seems to me that
law can be made honorable only by observing IL,
and IL Is difficult observe a law that you don't
approve. Secondly. let uphold our ideal Of the
American Sunday. Let the people who have been
made what they are by the American Sunday OBJ
serve it. Let the rich and the leisurely and the
comfortable observe it Let American Christians
FIRST keen and honor the Christian Sunday Thirdly.
lei US aim along such lines to further limit the evil
sf the saloon That is what looms up before
The overwhelming evil of the saloon has got to be
limited Fourthly, let US. with all wisdom and
devotion provide substitutions for the saloon.
as ffnd something for the poor and the working
man and the who lives IN one squalid room,
something that will represent TO him what the
clubs and places OF pleasing resort represent to
those OF more ease.