New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-05-02
AFTER ". l. DIRECTORS
ALSO TAKES SHOT At Low
Jerome in Church Ercise Speech
Calls Murphy City's MAJOR.

District Attorney Jerome spoke on the excise
question in DR.. Stmson's Manhattan Congrega-
tional Church. Broadway and Seventy-sixth-st-'
last evening. Incidentally he took shot at Ex-
Mayor Lows excise attitude. and spoke of {. F.
Murphy as the present Mayor of the city. He said
that the police still Matchmaking saloonkeep-
ers. declared there was perjury in most all excise
case prosecutions and wound up by declaring that
without the aid and connivance OF the directors
of the Western Union Telegraph Company pool
rooms could not be kept open. Why hadn't these
directors called a meeting and instructed their
agents to cut off the news from these poolrooms.
he wanted 10 know.
He began by declaring that the liquor law Of
New-York city is not enforceable in the sense that
good people expect it to he. The moral sense OF
the community against its enforcement Sew
enty-fve per cent of the saloons open on Sun
day here.
These my figures he said. "A committee
of the Association of Neighborhood Workers made
an investigation during the time that Commissioned
Greene-Low still MayOr-was making strenuous
efforts TO close the saloons and found that more
than So per cent Of the saloons open
Sunday when the weather conditions were not
pecialIy favorable. Seventy-ive per cent Of the
looms in New-York means 500 open saloons
on Sunday. Saloonkeepers tell me that
hundred patrons a day necessary to make
II pay to keep open the saloon I take
thirty as my basis for figuring and that basis
tell YOU there two hundred thousand people
who take drinks Sunday. in violation OF the law.
ThiS number does not Include those who drink at
hotels
Now there arc FIVE hundred legitimate hotels
in New-York City which, under the law, have
right 10 keep open. Any authority that enforces
a law has take into consideration the
Of those hundred thousand drinkers. and
administration that has antagonized them ever
has been returned power. Strong not
ceeded by a reform Mayor. chiefly owing, I
believe, Mr.. Roosevelt's handling Of the
else question. Under his direction thousand
,-gx1,s
the Liquor Selling act. Low not reelected,
chiefly. I believe, because Of Greenes activity in
this direction. And vet he arrested only six thou
sand persons in this way.
Those who are interested in the subject know
that what was responsible for Mir. Lows election
Mayor that miserable, crooked wicked sub
terfuge Of a platform which said that locked
door would not have he locked. The very fact
that a university scholar could share such intel
lectual asinnity as that is one 81 the best ev-
dences Of the extent decent will go 70 under
the stress 81 circumstances The Mayor who tries
enforce the liquor law in New-York has but one
term 70 serve. and only one This applies 10 Mr.
Murphy well q 10 Mr.. Low
Speaking OF hackman, he said It was we'll known
that after the Roosevelt crusade against liquor
dealers. the price do business sunday was
raised from I'VE 10 ten dollars Greene did the
same thing as Roosevelt, and the price was raised
again The same thing with MURPHY said Mr.
Jerome. He continued.
ponce CaP g 2a ne ~ap'a'T W. ~ oIin cab
tain drons 5ead in station and s3s 5e5 in mon9y
is found in his desk. YOU wonder any longer
how the captain can save 50 much out OF MS sal
most demoralzing form Of This law The police
man takes cigars and drinks, and IN return has 10
buy Chowder ticket or finds himself transferred,
If he hasn't fixed himself politically,
But to the question Of perjury is something
f1ghtful In connection with this liquor law sat
as Judge I'm Special Sessions for several years. and
after / became District Attorney l prosecuted
and tched the prosecution of three thousand
LIQUOR cases and | tell YOU il is nv honest belief
wilful and deliberate perjury was committed.
As a matter OF fact, this whole town of ours IS
you read in the newspapers of the stories about
the Western Union keeping the poo!rooms going,
and do YOU realize that without the aid and CON
uivance II the eminent directors OF the W estern
Union the poolrooms could not keep open2 All this
was printed. And yet have these eminent directors
He'd a meeting Of the board and instructed their
agents to cut off the supplies from these pool
a single poolroom in Newly closed a
suit Of this newspaper publication?
/ have solution To oner Tonight Ihere is
urgent need of a solution. but its up 90 you ana
people like YOU. Congregati onalists, to ind the
solution. Don't forget that It isn't n question or
the holy Sabbath l believe in that as thoroughly
have the holy Sabbath. as you well know: what
we want do is to improve the present situation
have been to Albany three times. Tor three years
with bill In my pocket whose ann Is 70 correct
these evils and it is support Of that bill, or the
idea running through II. which ask tonight
never found a man or a woman who after closely
investigating tho subject from my point OF view,
hasn't agreed with me. 1t is your duty TO help get
the law so modified that II Will permit reason
Sunday.
Mr. Jerome cited as those who are in favor Of his
bill James G. Carter. Nicholas Murray Butler.
Bishop Potter Or Rainsford. William H. Bald
win jr. and Gustav schwab lie said twenty or
thirty others OF equal prominence favored the bill
Tr StIusOn DraVed for drunkards md saloon