The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1905-07-22

is conducted Upon conviction he
shall be fined and imprisoned.
In open, palpable violation of this
law, one Of the busiest saloons in
Greenville is conducted III a building
back from the street, where no one
from the street can tell from any sign
or otrer appearance whatever, that
there is a saloon in tie building. Win
this yiolator Of the law 1be good
Or will our officers close him up un-
der the following statute: The Board
of Supervisors OF any city, town or
village shall have power, and it shall
be their duty to revoke any license
to retail liquors whenever the person
to whom sjch license was granted
shall, in any way violate any of the
provisions of this Chapter"
If any OF these officers wishes to en-
force the law, and does not know
where this saloon is located, | will
give him the necessary information
1t IS reported that this saloon man
says that he intends changing the
room occupied by his saloon, next fall,
when he can get possession of an other
room now in use This is fair sam
pie of the way saloon men generally
obey the law; that is, when it suits
them, and as it suits them Frequent
ly it does not suit them at all, and
so, out of their business grow the
basest immoralities and the blacklist
crimes
A friend Of the licensed saloon tells
me that he got his information from
a bright 10 year old boy, that the
boys Of Greenville do not 80 to the
saloons for their drinks, but to the
houses Of i'll fame, where they can gel
all the liquor they want, and can pay
for These bawdy houses are sup
piled with drinks from the neighbor-
ing saloons and it is said that some
nights single one Of these resorts
will have more than one hundred men
and boys to visit them, and drink
with the lewd characters therein. And
on Sundays, these places FAIRLY ru1
over with the men and boys Of our
town, drinking and carousing
These houses of prostitution need
some hard blows from the strong arm
Of the law, and I appeal to our Mayor
and City Council to lay them on They
need to be removed from the thor
oughfares leading to the depots and
steamboat landings, where decent peo-
pie are compelled to pass at all hours.
They ought to be required to have al
telephones taken from their houses,
rmder threat of their utter annihila-
ton. And every saloon keeper should
be gfven to understand that if he
sends drinks to these haunts of vice,
he shall surely have his license re-
voked
Public sentiment has declared with
a hundred voices within the past
week that the lawlessness of our city
must be suppressed That edict has
gone forth, and it means something
But, my fellow citizens, some other
organization than Saloon Keepers
League and Bartenders Union must
get behind this sentiment, and close
these gambling dives, break up this
bawdy house drinking, and protect
our boys from the temptations of the
gambling den, the house of shame.
and the saloon.
We need law and order league to
see hat lawlessness is suppressed.
and that every law is strictly enforced
that regulates the dram shop, as long
as it shall be tolerated by the suf-
frage of our people. And if | do not
entirely misread the signs of the time
"few and evil are the days" of Green
ville's licensed saloons
VIM. A. BORUM.