New-York tribune., 1909-03-31
DIR. .FARR ASKS SUPPORT
SUNDAY SALOON OPENING.
Presbytery Temperance COMMITTEE
Dirided on amendment

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ment last week IN favor of the amendment TO the
Raiues law enabling saloons to remain open gun
days from to II p. M it was learned !ee'eiN'''
/ and as DR.. Farrs action asan Individual ohiy
II was said that meeting probably Wouiu oe heiu
before the Presbytery meets. on April Z
The committee is COMPOSED Of Dr. f6rr' the
Rev. Gaylord S White and Thomas tochi aiie' an
elder in the Scotch Presbyterian ChuTch- MI
White approves Dr. Fairs action, but MI Coch-
rane does not. Or. Farr IN view of the opposiuoh
: among the minister's issued tie following state
ment yesterday:
few DAYS ago a letter Of mine, with regard
to the amendments TO the present RadG- ad5-essed
proposed the Committee Of Fourteen dduT
10 the PRESBYTERIAN ministers in the city was
TdeIE PS6sfea II 6seIs 5hs Gs passed
resolution at its last meeting In opposition 10 the
exceedingiv sorry that this adverse action has
/ Taen tgEe1 nv i6e men 70 whom I specially ap-
neaje5 since however this is matter which
: concerns every citizen of New York as well as
! New York that those who have read sympatheI5
cally my representations, or VINO nave Otem rd 1e
ments should bring their personal influence to TO
! bear upon the legislators to secure the passage
I have ti this morning received letter from
senne of snT veTy active agitation in favor of
this measure, am confident thSt II VII ha +be he
6r Gnnftfa 70 stir mp such favorable agita-
ftoI, as nnaars to be necas=aTv It is therefore
essential for those citizens who desire to see con
ditions with regard to the sale Of liquor IN Inls
city improved to write at once to their repre-
sentatives in behalf of these amendments. II
YOU do not know who your representatiiveS ar ar
call up the Committee OF Fourteen on the teie-
There are many good people who favor all the
amendments with the exception OF the one reiat-
| day closing law must remain on the books and
must 6e enforced May ask for how iong g IiL [iI
| ity would he demonstrated. and who Is the man
we are to put in power to carry the law into ef-
fect9 The law has been tested for thirteen years;
has never been en0r9ed & except uP94 a ga 5ae 9fg had
! the strongest in the nation In charge OF tRe
task ta fnq " where g Mr. r. l"ced % We have Police
Commissioned at The present time above the aver
ot the Sunday closing law is disgrace TO the city
Or Farr then tells of seeing saloons doing bust
ness Sundays, and says:
/ am no friend Of the saloon. Nothing would
piease me Cit axcen 70 see them cased on
every DAY in the week; but we live in a democracy
of our democracy and where the people Of the city
are opposed 10 law they are not likely to concur
| the sentiment OF another part OF the state The
eStr IL T yor I = tn. m 44Gnnsed an1endn7ents are
! drawn up with careful study Of conditions in
! New York CITY and with an honest desire TO i'm
! prove those conditions. l therefore, as private
! ctuzen, believing sincerely In these anen1RenJs IN
as calculated to promote the improvement OF cqn- &
dons in New York, ask that other citizens Of like
mind will Join with in the effort 20 secure their
! enactment
Mr. White said yesterday that SO long as saloons
| we're open any way it would be better TO have them
legally open. He said he understood that DR.. Fairs
letter personal letter. Mr.. White said he had
never been informed that he the temper
ance committee. Mr.. White also said he was
strongly in favor of closing the saloons, but If the
law could not do then II would he better, he
felt to wipe out the travesty-
! Mr.. Cochrane said he had been a member of the
! temperance committee for several years. He ex-
/ pressed a great liking for DR. Farr. and said he
would like to back him up in his stand, but could
/ not do The bill all right. with the excep-
ton of the Sunday opening clause. Mr.. Cochrane
said and it was up the city to enforce the clos
ing law could be done, he said, but at present
the law farce.
The Rev. Dr.. D. J. Mcmillan, pastor of the New
York Presbyterian Church said that he could not
see why liquor business should get a privilege
not given others. The saloon. he said. should
be recognized either as a legal business and then
put on the same basis any other business. or as
an evil and as such forbidden, theft and murder
/ are forbidden. The Rev. G. f Merriam pastor Of
the Fourteenth Street Church, agreed with DIR. Nc
MILAN.
The Rev Dr. David G. Wylie. pastor of the
Scotch PRESBYTERIAN Church, said last night that
he read DR. Farr's letter several times before he
could convince himself that il had been written by
! a member of the Presbytery. the position the
letter advocated seemed foreign TO the PTesby-
terian wav OF thinking. Dr. Wylie said:
4 presumed after careful consideration, that the
committee on temperance had met and seriously
considered every word and paragraph; but / md
that meeting of the committee has been held,
and that at least one member is unaterabiy op
posed TO the opening of the saloons on the Lord
Day The serious aspect of the question is that
the letter signed by the Rev. Dr. Farr as
chairman Of the Presbytery committee on temper
anCe, thus. in q certain sense committing all or
US 20 the proposed.
1t would have been quite a different matter had
the letter simply been signed by DR. Farr, for no
one doubts or denies his right take any position
he thinks wise as Individual whether on tenn
perance an open saloon the gambling evil. So
far as the merits of the question concerned, l
desire place myself on record as opposed to the
open saloon Sunday
To sound the sentiment Of the people d mass
meeting vas held last night under the auspices OF
the Peoples Institute to discuss the opening OF
saloons on sunday, advocated in the bill intro
duced al Albany by Senator Brough- The senti-
nlen Of the majority Of those present in favor
Of the proposed legislation
Congressman Bennett, in explaining the object OF
the bill, said
puts such q temptation in way of the police,
The Excise Department should enforce these laws.
sale OF liquors and It employs only sixty men to
enforce the excise laws and then hen only on the spe;
and fifty men, and three-ffths Of them ought to be
in the cities.
The Rev Or. John P. Peters, chairman Of the
Committee of Fourteen, after reading letters from
well known men indorsing the BILL explained its
provisions. He followed by Frederick Within.
secretary the committee. and the Rev DR.. John
Haines Holmes. Paul Fuller said:
Don't be Ike an ostrich. The Ranes Law hotels
should be made to cease. As it stands now the
law is a burden 70 the honest liquor dealer. we
openly Public opinion does uphold the present
Law for four thousand saloons open In this city
every Sunday.
NO MORE STANDARD OIL CAPITAL.
4 published report yesterday that the long
rumored plan for increasing the capitalization OF
ard he m