The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1907-09-06
Busse Threatens to In
force "Blue Laws" if
They are not Good.
SUNDAY CLOSING MAY RESULT
They Must Keep Their Hands OFF
Public Questions Not In
volVing Them.

served notice on the saloon and brew
cry interests of Chicago that the at
tempted interference of this class of
citizens in the settlement Of public
question IS not to his liking.
He has accompanied this notice with
the statement that the continued use
of such tactics as the liquor interests
are employing to defeat the charter
will indicate that the saloon power of
the city needs curbing.
He has informed the representative
men of the brewing industry that they
can have blue laws in Chicago indie
pendent Of the result of the charter
contest, and that they will prove that
they need them by continuing in an
effort to influence the decision of
public question by the unfair and de-
ivous methods employed in a saloon
fight
Sunday Closing "a Prospect.
he closing of saloons on Sunday will
be the direct result of a refusal on the
part of the saloon men to keep their
hands off the charter. The fact that
brewery interests are opposed to the
charter and thati is opposed by men
in the saloon business did not lead the
mayor to make his declaration to them.
1t was the fact that the liquor interests
were endeavoring, by unfair means, by
falsehood, misrepresentation and mis-
statement, and by every device and
method known to the business, to de-
feat the charter simply because they
feared it might revive prohibition or
dinances in former towns now a part
of Chicago.
The motive which Influenced the
liquor men and the manner in which
they were manifesting their opposition
led Mayor Busse to believe that the
saloon element was endeavoring to at
tain dominant position in the city and
to defeat measures which were a pub
lie benefit, but which might affect their
business.
Has State Law at Hand.
| In such cases he held that 1t was
time for the saloons to be refined in,
and he has the means ready at hand
in the state law for Sunday closing,
the city ordinances for 1 o'clock clos
ing, and the power of revocation Of Ii
censes.
| When Mr.. Busse heard that the brew
ers not only had been responsible for
the red and yellow yell" which the
United Societies fathered in opposition
to the charter, but that they were rails
ing a campaign fund to be used against
the charter act, he sent for Austin ].
Doyle, secretary of the Chicago Mil
waukee Brewers association. He told
Mr.. Doyle that he did not wish to be
understood as making any threats
That was not his purpose. he said.
He called attention to the fact that
ha
because he made plain statement OF
his intention not to interfere with the
saloons as they had been conducted
before him and that he had hoped to
make 1t possible for them to be con-
Quoted in an orderly manner with all
the privileges it was possible to grant
| such places when orderly.
He told Mr.. Doyle that the return
for this attitude on his part seemed tC
be an Immediate assumption of free
dom and power on the part of the
liquor elements to do as they pleased
to interfere in the settlement of city
questions, and to stop at nothing in
the way of Misrepresentation and abuse
to succeed in defeating something thai
they did not want.
May Close Saloons This Month.
IF these methods are continued" h,
said, and if because of them the char.
ter is defeated, 1 think that all the sa
looms of the city will be closed tn,
Sunday after Sept. IT, and I think they
will remain closed for three years anC
eight months. I do not wish to be un
derstood as making threats, but if Il
. saloons of this city have come to tn
opinion that they can run the city it +
time to restrict their power"
Mr.. Doyle took this statement of tn
mayors intentions to the brewers anC
yesterday it became generally known
to the liquor interests. One Of thu
German papers sent a reporter to tn,
mayor for corroboration and Mr.. Buss
repeated what he had said to Mr.. Doyle