The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1906-03-07


him. A man was known by the COM
pany he kept, and he was in good COM
pany.
Rev. Hugh B. MacCauley. D. D., pas
tor Of the Fourth Presbyterian Church
of Trenton, spoke Of the great liquor
regulating movement and said that
Bishop McFaul spoke we'll in the eathe-
dral last Sunday when he said March
will be day to remember in New
Jersey"
s'On that day." said Mr.. MacCauley,
protest against the liquor abuses went
up from every Catholic, Episcopal and
Lutheran church. This is a good Irish
month, too. because Of the 17th, and I
am glad to stand between Monsignor
Sheppard, of Jersey City, and Father
Sullivan. also of Jersey City. both of
them Catholics Father Sullivan said
there was considerable OF Irish in him,
ard | am glad there is a little in me.
Catholics and Protestants join in urg-
ing law for the better regulating of
the liquor traffic.
Rev. Father Charles A. Kelly, Hobo
ken, said we exist by respect for author
ity and because of this fact there must
be observance of law. Violation of law
breeds the downfall of republics, and
therefore it is the duty of the Legislature
to either force good laws or else toke the
laws off the statute books. He pleaded
for the tearing of the screens from sa-
looms. The public demanded it.
y Father Kelly said that the back rooms
We're the iniquity spots of saloons and an
outraged fatherhood and motherhood de-
manded that these rooms be cleaned out.
He said he stood for the outraged home,
the desolate mother, the heartbroken
father.
The hearing was postponed at three
o'clock to enable the Assembly to finish
up its work. When it was resumed at
5 o'clock, ex-senator Hudspeth opened
his side Of the case for the liquor deal
ers. He said it was false indictment
against the officials of the State that
they were not law-abiding.
The speaker went into the history
of the Werts' liquor law and said it
was the greatest regulator of the liquor
traffic that any state ever enacted. He
declared it false, that the Stae of New
jersey was fast going to perdition.
The speaker said that he agreed with
the morning speakers who had said that
the saloonkeepers who kept dens Of in
iquity, where women were debauched,
should be dragged out into the light.
He said they should be driven off the
face of the earth. But the feature which
makes a saloonkeeper liable to impris-
onment for keeping a disorderly house
is wrong. It was amended out Of the old
DAILY act by the Werts law and should
not come back again in this law.
He said that making the property
owner signatory for the license, abro-
gated the long lease which was the life
of good saloon properties and would al
low the landlord TO blackmail the tenant
every year into giving him more rent. or
he would not sign the license applica-
tion.
The speaker declared that if features
of the liquor business were wrong. there
was but one thing to do and be. consist
ent-root it completely out.
The speaker declared that there was
power under the 1889 law for excise
boards or county courts. wherever the
licensing power lies, but the license
rates were not raised
Senator Hudspeth then attacked the
provisions of the bill which allowed the
wholesaler to keep up the screens and
did not raise his license fee. He said
these places did more harm than all the
retail places.
Going on. the Senator denounced the
department store wagons which brought
rum to the household, and said they
brought rum into homes and paid no IL
cense; that they were worse than any
Of the places Of iniquity which had been
cited during the day.
He roasted the clause Of the bill hold
ing the landlord jointly liable with the
license holder for violation Of law, and
said the clause was unconstitutional, be-
cause it would deprive a man of his
property without the process of law. He
also said 1t was unfair TO place SALOON
keeper in jeopardy of jail. because he did
NOT always guess a twenty one-y year-old
mans age right.
Senator Hudspeth ATTACKED the idea
of pulling down the screens. He said:
Making saloons show places would be
denioralizing to the young, who would
view everything and talk about what
they saw