The Jersey City news., 1906-02-24
While the Liquor Dealers
Talked Legislation In
This City, Their Opponents
Discussed the Same Sub
ject
RESOLUTIONS PASSED
BISHOP O'CONNoR OFFERED
THEM AND THEY WE'RE UNAN-
INIoUSLY ADOPTED ~ MINIS
TIERS TO MAKE PULPIT APP
PEALS.

Two hundred clerrvmen from various
parts of the State of New Jersey met
in the school hall of st. Patrick's Cathed-
raj in Newark yesterday to discuss new
legislation regulating the liquor traffic.
Bishop O.Connor called the meeting to
order and the Rev. Charles Kelly, of the
Church Of Our Lady of Grace, Hobokep,
was made chairman.
The bills. discussed we're Senate bills
Nos. 1876 and 137. They are neither of
them local option measures, and it was
emphasized that the movement does not
aim at prohibition, local option, or to
do away with the saloon. Instead the
plan is to put around the saloons safe
guards that will tend to abolish drunk
enness and vicious practices, such as
are fostered by drawn curtains and
back rooms The principal effect of the
passage of these bills will be to compel
of their establishment to passers-by in
the streets.
Bishop O'Connor offered the following
resolutions, which were discussed and
adopted:
Whereas, we, the clergymen of all de-
nominations of the Commonwealth of
New Jersey, laboring through its terri
tory for the advancement of civilization
and true Christian morality, the bulwark
of our nations stability and progress;
and,
Whereas. Individual efforts for years
in our several communities for the en-
forcement of laws through appealing TO
magistrates, boards of government and
chiefs of police. have proFed unacailing,
snlothered by the Vaccinations of some
dishonest polititOans; and
Whereas, The sanction of law is ap-
parently sparalyzed and the custodians of
justice who should defend the rights of
the common people are entirely dormant;
and
Whereas, The proprietors of many
places wherein Intoxicating drinks are
sold and consumed by the maintenance
of what are known as back rooms not
enly offer opportunity to the abandoned
and the profigate to gratify their appe-
tites by debauching the innocence of the
poor mans home, but actually encour-
age and solicit the patronage of the vilest
men and women who, with the appetite
of brutes and the arts of demons, re-
cruit from children of honest laborers, by
hundreds, the wretched victims of i'm
proper lives; therefore, be it
Resolved, That, in the name Of religion
and country, IN the name of morality and
law, in the Name of the parents whom
the wicked may make heartbroken. in
the name Of families in danger of desc
latson, in the name Of the home
sanctuaries threatened with violation,
in the name of natures dearest,
tenderest sympathies, in the name of
all that gives laborer's toll an object;
in the name of the poor mans child, we
in convention assembled most respect
fully and earnestly request the executive
and legislative bodies no win session at
Trenton to grant us the enactment of a
law, easily enforced and rich in conse-
quence: namely, the conducting of the
liqucr business as any other traffic, in an
open manner, BY removing all screens
of any kind whatever that can obstrnct
in any way the view from the street Of
the places or any parts ef them, so chat
we NAV effectually prevent the progress
and havoc Of yice-the multiplication of
immoral drinking resorts beyond all rea-
sonable necessity and demand iii tene-
ment districts; the moral suicides that
we find in institutions and hospital
'wards;;S the abandoned in houses of ref
uge and orphanages; the criminals in our
jail cells, and by doing so save the young
and innocent from the ravages of a vile
habit that is like sore, fostering and
spreading upon the body polite, running
the homes of honest labor and bringing
degradation and shame upon the family.
Be if further
Resolved, That we likewise earnestly
and respectfully request the executive
and legislative bodies of our State to ad-
minister, once and for all future time.
such a singing rebuke as was dealt once
before to those who. though in a minor
ity, arrogantly assumed the right to die
tate to the majority and assert unblush-
ingly that. on account of their influence,
political or otherwise, no measure could
be advanced without their wish; forget
ting that all true liberty recognizes law
as paramount and that If liberty 10 not
to be mistaken FOR license it must be
safeguarded by our courts and respected
By a conscientious people, SO that it ma y
she'd lis benign influence upon the many
and affect the life and happiness Of
nation.
In fllrglaerance of this We therefore
earnestly ard respectfully overture the
executive and legislative bodies to enact
into laws Senate bills Nos. 1856 and 1871.
On motion Of Rev. DR.. James +.
Vance. of the North Reformed Church.
of Newark. it was decided Tint ministers
spread next March / this cause among
the people Of The State BY appeals from
the pulpit and at Hehoinlnalional meet-
ings in AL sioealitis