The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1907-12-30
SALOON A NECESSITY
Settlement Workers Favor
a Poor Mans Club
on Sundays.

Chicago. Dec 30.-The Sunday saloon
was Endorsed yesterday afternoon at
the Sunday session Of the National
Ethical convention at Henry Booth
house. West Fourteenth place and Hal
sted street.
Enthusiastic applause from the au-
dience of social settlement workers
greeted the announcements in favor
of allosying the poor man" to have
his club"-the saloon-on Sunday as
well as on the other days of the week.
Dr. Emil G. Hirsch of Chicago. and
Prof Nathaniel Schmidt Of Cornell
university We're the speakers who had
good words to say for the operation
of saloons on Sunday. No one was
there to denounce the institution.
1t was as an ethical necessity" not
an ethical idea, that the Sunday saloon
was defended and favored by the dele
gates. The speakers pointed out that
those who are advocating the suppress
sion Of the Sunday saloon in Chicago
are unable TO offer anything to take
its place Until they can do So II
was argued, the Sunday saloon should
be tolerated If not upheld as one OF
the necessities of modern life in great
cities
/ Schools Of journalism and schools Of
acting were advocated as two re
/ forms" that would be found 10 be
ethical necessities" in the near future
Gossip Along With the Drink.
If the saloons had to depend on my
patronage" said DR. Hirsch, they
would have to go out of business But
T recognize that this would be a small
and probably a dull world If tastes
enioyments, and pleasures of all ran II
only one little groove. There is nc
question that a large class Of the popu
llation in large cities like Chicago finds
the saloon-even the Sunday saloon
a necessity of their existence. The!
go there TO gossip as we'll as to drinl
more often to gossip, l think Now
who will deny that people have RICH
to gossip? Who will deny that the,
have the right to take their GOSSIP
with their drink, or their drink witt
their gossip?
The reformers who want to exter
inmate the Sunday saloon will say tina
political gossip is about the only COS
sip heard in saloons. Well, what II !
is? Have not the working people tn
: right to go to the saloon for its socia
side. About the only social life the
have is in these poor mems clubs
the saloons have been called
Must Find a Substitute.
But suppose the reformers OF tia
special school which is devoting ii
activities to the work Of suppressin
the sunday saloon should succeed
their crusade. What then2 They hav
absolutely nothing to offer as SUP
stjtute. There IS absolutely no gain
saving the fact that an adequate SUP
: stitute must be found for the Sunda
/ saloon. If that institution is to be pu
out Of business.
For ii is the history OF retofi
movements that restrictive measure
which leave reasonable human need
; rnsatfsfed are almost invariably toi
lowed BY reactions that leave the prop
lem sought TO be solved in mo-
nerplexing condition than before -
reform was enforced
There is another important -
that should not Be ignored during t",
, agitation for a Sabbatarian OF p1ii
tanic Sunday. 1t Is that the Lali9il
who were the first 10 have 9NiI'I@
made Of it a day OF rest ana emo!
: nnent. and that it was only as 'te ,"
: Of the religious dogmatists eNpai'de
!. that the Sabbath day was msae purel
or mostly a day Of religious WORSHIP