The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-08-01
.M.E.YOUNG PEOPLE
ENLIST FOR WAR
SAY THEY'LL NOT ABANDON sA-
LOON CRUSADE.
Their Platform Is enforcement or
Repeal and They Announce That
Something Is Going to Drop Soon
Conroy Denies Any Special Order
on Sunday Closing.

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Eve are not going to lie down just
because we were turned down once or
twice, but we have not made up our
minds what to do, said w. "A. R1ce
of the good citizenship department. OF
the Epworth league this morning.
| This is the status of the leagues move
for enforcement of the Sunday liquor
law.
Something is going to drop soon,
however. This much is admitted by
| the league representatives. Co-opera-
| ton in the movement with some other
| prominent protective organization is
| likely and it is limited that the first
steps have been taken within day
| or two to land bomb in the right
place to secure enforcement of the
| law.
Police Superintendent Conroy said
| this morning that no new orders had
| been issued in regard to the closing
of saloon side doors Sundays Morning
| papers stated that new instructions
We're issued last night by the chief
ordering side doors closed tight. This
move was thought to have had some
deep underlying motive in that the
chief had been visited recently by the
| Epworth league representatives. On
| the contrary, it is said, this rule has
I been standing since Conroy took
charge of the police. When he notices
saloonkeepers getting careless, the
chief Jacks up the officers on the beat
and lacking up week ago resulted
in patrolmen's visits to saloons last
night ordering side doors closed.
Enforcement or Repeal.
The leaguers say they were ignored
being invited to present protests
against the granting of advertised
liquor licenses. The visits to the city
attorney and to the police superin.
tendent were only for information
The license committee referred then
to the attorney and they were referred
! back to the committee. 1t was sug.
gested they appeal to the council anc
the licenses were granted meanwhile
, The reformers protested against the
granting of the licenses on the ground
;, that the applicants were lawbreakers
having violated the Sunday law. The
applicants had made affidavit tina
they had kept the law, yet the council
and police admit they have not. Thu
n leagues principle is enforcement O.
: repeal of the laws. The campaign
will be continued in an effective way
but without preliminary publicity.
Mr.. Rice said today: eve ap
: peared three weeks ago before tn
license committee and made objec
. ton to the granting of certain
= licenses on the ground that the appli
: cants had violated the Sunday CLOSING
. ter at that time and asked us to ap
pear again, at which time it woul
not listen to us on the ground that
a was not an executive body, and tina
: it was not it's function to pass on tn
>. subject, and that the saloon me
n should have chance to answer.
a 1--WE shall take another tack. TIL
;, Epworth league will probably coop
;. crate with another well-known or
> ganization. Something is going
drop"
/ Those Protests by Churchmen.
= In regard to a reported remark {
l. !, Superintendent Conroy, that tn
II church people would make the frs
- howl against strict enforcement {
= the law, Mr. Rice said: tits SUI
~ thing that the Christian people woul
- not object, and probably no so-calle
- Christian would complain"
IS The chief said that when cand
stores were closed, owners of tf
property would not come to him d
rectly, but would send their attorney
to protest against the attack on the
revenues.
ne Conroy said today on the gener
1c subject of Sunday closing: "Salool
e. closing has never been observed SIM
I'd the Babb regime. At that time tt
ty effect was demoralizing, and office
he were detailed Sunday nights to me
the crowded ShOrt-line trains from
Paul to take care of the people WI
al were returning from that city aft
ce spending all their money in drink.
Q. II believe in running the salot
Ia business under strict regulation
When there is any loud talking
fuss, the police are directed to clio
20 that saloon for the day.
w. What the Laws Provide.
e The state law requires saloons
close at II pm. and city ordinanc
:. require them to close at midnigl
- In both cases they must stay clos
:. - until am. After these hours Hquo
- dealers cannot legally sell or 81
H. away any liquor. Those who are {
ready in the saloons after those hou
Dr. must not be served with liquors
ne any kind.
u No officer or peace official can gi
liquor men permission to infrin
upon these laws.
The court justice before which a
person is convicted Of keeping op
after hours may revoke the licer
Ion upon the first conviction and MI
revoke it upon the second
~. If man locks his doors at
of o'clock, but sells to persons then
ird the saloon, he is violating the law a
ere his license can be revoked by orc
ng. of the court.