Perth Amboy evening news., 1906-12-19
SOUTH AMBOY.

there is any us in doing that. Well
they came to see me.
The janitor told you what you
what you could have it for. How
long do you want it? About three
hours in the vening. Now after your
lesson is over what do you propose to
do then. The young folks would
stay there and practice all night until
until 2 or 3 O'Clock in the morning,
making a regular dance hall of it. /
tel you, gentlemen, we must put our
faces against this sort of thing, our
regulations + standing, and l nm
more and more impressed with the
Importance of saying no or yes hat
cannot be misconstrued. Now, 1
started Il with the chief and an
other officer Sunday night. There Is
Mr.. Dey, we hunted him out. /
thought he was a valiant man n If
we got into trouble he would help
us, but he could not be found, l be-
lieve he got a tip, anyway we could
not find him. There is a weak-knee
for you"
Ivy L was III llG uOuSC.
You did not come to the house for
me- :
Mayor: I'VE did not see II light
did we, Chief? No, gentlemen, let us
do our duty fearlessly, without re-
gard to what people say, and my word
for 1t, they will think a great more
of you afterwards. So with this mat
ter of the borough hall, so long as |
am mayor, | may not be mayor more
than a week, perhaps | might die,
but do not care what the committee
on borough says, or the ~janitor say
| am determined nothing contrary to
the law shall go along in this hall. |
may perhaps be a little too decided in
this matter, but boys | tell you l am
a man all the way through"
Mr.. Dewan: LAS chairman of the
committee on borough hall, | suppose
1t is up to me to defend myself. I
wish to state a man called at my
house last Sunday. He represented
the Danish Brotherhood, which is an
organization that is organized in this
town composed of taxpayers and
property n of this town, and /
am under the impression that you are
giving 1t under a false light. | do
not think this man proposed to sell
any beer, as you say. When you put
your foot down on a certain NATIONAL
ity of people, why didn't you put it
dowag on the Fourth of July? You
allowed beer to be at everybody's
disposal in the basement of the hall
on that day. These people have a lit
tie time there on Christmas among
themselves. They have a little beer
to drink for themselves, they don't
sell 1t or don't offer it for sale, and
| think, in Justice, on account of the
organization being located in our
town, composed of property owners of
the town, we should give them some
privileges too If we had been so
strict in the past it would have been
all right, but as long as you have
allowed it heretofore"
Mayor: Il have never allowed it..
Mr.. Dewan: "As it is composed, as
I said before, of the property owners
and taxpayers, for that reason | had
no rheumatics in my knees when Il
said, yes, you can have the hall"
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Mayor: Then you were in favor
of it, Mr.. Dewan?"
Mr.. Dewan: Il certainly was. 1t
was an organization organized in our
own town.
Mayor: II do not care where the
organization comes from, whether it
is in town or anywhere else. | do
not care. two cents about the organ
.ization. Every other man is a tax
payer, and upon that principle a tax
payer has a right to destroy property
and disobey the law. Now we are
located for the purpose and especially
am / located for the purpose of pro-
tecting public property, and | think
that is a very poor argument because
a man is a taxpayer, because ne pays
taxes, they will allow him to go tear
up the streets, take down pubic
buildings. l thing you are laboring
under a very false impression, and
al say'tot all of you and anyone whol
Is in favor of that think do not care
what has been. done heretofore, such
a thing has been done to the disgrace
of, the people heretofore, and 1t is no
reason for us, because things nave
been done in that line, that we shouio
allow it to be done, there is no reason
why L should be a murdered or a.
thief because another man mas Deen'
We are put here to preserve the law
n protect the people III All tndt Sorti
of thing, and while Mr.. Dewan says
he is in favor of renting the hall and
allowing beer indiscriminately,
whether sold or given away, we have
no right to allow beer to be brought
into this hall to even give away"
MIR. Dewan: why did you allow
1t on the Fourth of July?"
Mayor: ut is in violation of the
excise law. That was only for the
public speakers who came here"
Mr.. Dewan: Il gave my consent
with the majority of the committee.
If we haven't any right to give a de-
| cision there is no reason for the COM
mittee."
Mayor: "what do the rest of the
committee say?'
Mr.. Dey: II am into this. A gem
tleman came in the hall at the last
meeting. Mr.. Gordon, Mr.. Dewan
and myself stood there. He was a
very intelligent looking man. | did
not know him, could not place him,
knew his face, but to name him
could not. He said they had always