New-York tribune., 1905-01-31
JEROME ON RAINES LAW
PROTECTION, s1e, 900 A YEAR
Says Neither Republican nor Demo
cratic Officials Abolish EuiIs.

amend the RaInes law or enforce it." declared
,st-ict Attorney Jerome last night, in ts address
= The Raines Law and It's Evils" before the
,rabers of the Mems League Of the Mount Norris
psrtist Church. bth-aye. and I27th-st. Mr.. Jerome
- he had been sighting four years 10 bring about
: change IN tie present liquor law, and had not
,iven I'D the nght Mr.. Jerome continued in part:
-, advocating an amendment to the law per-
rstting TIE sale Of liquor on sanaays between the
hours q p ~ p - ,, - II se am up5or ~t o sn ni1e
~ Is against the law OF God ! concede at the
outs 5oy '' ana that selling rum on sunday is not
refrinc Fl holy. But the statute which seeks 10
a,o4i2f It's sale that day is unwise and power
- 70 accomplish its purpose
IS Gould be enforced by locally elected
sopo.r1ed. The Police Commissioner could easily
saioEoe the law io-say u he WanIea 70; some some
~ a. his same subject resolutions were intro
S1Sred appointing q committee 20 call on the Police
DO 50 he oennle9 e VS. f 70 & go 20 mi Wishes hes
i &c r.ss 10 appeal TO the Governor. shrewd old
P-ohi6itionist OF standard on connection opposed
- resolution because he said Jerome was laugh
- - ~ n I admitted it, l said that the resolution
.Ls,S - he PASSED and that would be the end OF It,
Jss.5 JhSy ifslssI56 Fl ana am still laughing.
THE disgusting and trightiu results Is & InaI me
~ prohi6its the sale OF ali liquor on sunday eS-
oep ID n,erV IN per cent of the saloons in this city
Dis ~ the business district keep open. The
..s license fee and heavy bond they have 10 pay
make them want 20 ksSg oIpTiI-i,eee In The iatf
wiing &c Ia pay I6 I6ere W are two hundred Saloons
PIectl,}, l1stiors OF the law were reported by the
k9nes- cent and in four hours they found that
6ppssr ~ Take a precinct where there are two
hunarsa fba1 IS 81 O0o month and $4,000 year.
~ vborn does 1t go: Some captain perhaps. who
4s never saueais. because the Law makes him an
Sesoepitie Toel When the great and good Mr. Low was
,f-o- end police captain was coflNlcted OF Ieli-
e lng /" onen the trick of an Irish captain-he was
rtenced 20 repruaand himself three Gays "a slls SS
With no"1fs rriS terror TO the average policeman.
spectacle - - ilfs nsed 10 taking biackmail. He
,,sl tas n lie atmosphere and becomes hardened
as Es,erse told of the case Of German saloon
,a.,ar named Christensen, who. wheh Mayor Ao"
STas ~ the city 70 obey the excise law opposed
e.,,~.ior in the Liquor Dealers Association 10 90
,,.ss IN +ile old way. The resolution was passed.
-. - ssvs Later was rescnded and on the iol-
80 sunday the captain pulled the German
80 ne vas convicted his own admission
.ars here was q decent man." SAID Ar' seioIhe,
- had made an honest effort 10 help the Mayor
.-,,bs- ~ the evils Of the Raines law SAID the
,,.-,ct Attorney was that it produced peTouiels'
= .rree thousand excise cases in when NJ Sa'
( tsere was perjury in IS per cent OF theH%
.rYhs law is made almost so drastic he sa4u' so
.ss. he saloonkeepers have TO commit perjury
-ss saloonkeeper has his all in his saloon ana ne
ksens oren Oh Sunday TO live. The law unaer WHICH
- -Uns his place sinks him in the social scale 1t
produces lawbreal1ers and perjurers. Only IN lhls
is LIQUOR dealer CSgfaueo III b'i4NA
,orr,res he IS respected. Why. the children OF
ssl,onl,eepers are sneeFed ct in school
.,Nv amendment Is not 10 open the salooh on
srrsa,-it Is omen neW-but TO close IL part OF the
ssv I don't believe that the law as 1t stands can
bs enforced. The traditions Of local sei-goYern-
r,e-t arc against the enforcing Of partisan Stdte
isw While the Republican party shouts about
temperance, II gives US the John RsLnsS law law
Tre Governor could enforce II, sc cOu!o tAS -S
- coilId the Police Commissioner ara don't De-
teye what they say 10 the contrary. InT
rs ,bs1 N f. the Mayors business but ne dotsn
re1noTr him because he is afraid to- E1fen Low
sBcke Of liberal enforcement aIe yesSIeI VII sL,i
-r,t 80 nv plain clothes whom l am using 10
each holi-up men whom don't eaten ARq 9q 80 80
f6e pooT miserable District Attorney Is lett 10
10 4 amendment would do away with the evils
s-ess aeseribe6, its enforcement WoOiG. one
~ tbs ofher must be done and forthwith. Person
give permanent relief and the enforcement OF the
law but temporary. 49, -
II !s lie duty Of a public officer who takes the
asth of ofice 70 enforce the law to DO SO. You
ear't ten ne that A with eight thousand DO
l.oenen in hundred square miles cant Lai1e
eight thousand saloon keepers obey the laR. II
can be II the saloon is taken out OF politics.
Il you won't help me in the fight at least create a
public sentiment for the enforcement OF the law
and thus prove the cowardice and pTetence OF the
Republican party N taking Sb,uO0,ppo IN revenue
from this city IN leuor taxes without spending a
cent to enforce the law, and make plain the sham,
The hypocrisy and the coWardlce or Democratic
i do not claim all-Wise comprehensive meas
which will solve all evils. but my plan has the
support Of Dr. RaInstord Bishop Potter, oscar y
Straus Henry Siesel DR.. John ;. Billings John
Cafin Louis Marshall. Louis Stern. John Caldwell.
TWO grand juries and the late ". II. Baldwin, all
earnest and honest men, who did not give their ap-
proVal because OF politics"
When Mr., Jerome mentioned the name of William
II, Baldwin his eyes hiled with tears.