Perth Amboy evening news., 1909-03-20
Letters from Citizens Defending
Excise Board On Cadek License

best Excise Board Perth Amboy has
ever had, fer the people of our city
to present their objections to the
granting OF this license, If they SO de-
sired. The license was not granted
when it first came up before the
board, but a special meeting was
called to get the peoples views as to
the desirability of granting this II
cense. Fair notice was gtveL IN the
newspapers and the special meeting
was attended by a goodly number of
people, yet our new demonstrators
failed to appear and now claim that
the Excise Board are "deserting our
peoples interest when in reality
they, even the ministers of the gos-
pei, might be accused of having de-
serted the peoples interest they rep
resent, in not being present TO pro-
test against the granting of any Ii
cnses, more especially this license.
not being present at the meeting they
are evidently acting on hearsay evil
dence, which is never acceptable.
Some of the people signing this
remonstrance have not been in
Perth Amboy long enough to get their
feet warm and are now endeavoring
to run the town. They own nothing,
pay no taxes on real estate, keep the
city out of taxes which they should
pay on their personal property and
only pay their poll tax, so they can
have the pleasure of voting.
One of the very prominent signers
made his home for number of years
in a liquor dispensing place in this
city and not one, so near as ] know,
ever heard OF his objecting to them
dispensing liquid evils.
Another remonstrator is heavy
imbiber of the beverages that exert
such evil influences and spends many
of his evenings in an establishment
of this kind.
II the granting of license to any
saloon is 1ustifable the granting of
Mr. Gadek's license at his present
location is most especially so. At
this point a cinder path (the cinders
of which we're furnished by one of the
demonstrating parties) is run from
The American Smelling & Refining
Co. plant towards Gypsytown and is
used by hundreds daily, it being only
three minutes walk from the trolley
to Gypsytown, while by the Amboy
route a man must pay heavily for a
conveyance or walk a matter of one
and one-half miles from Perth AM
boy.
Almost every one in Gypsytown
comes to Perth Amboy by this short
route, as we'll known by Mr.. Gadek
when he applied for license and Mr..
Gadek's will be highly appreciated In
the winter time by those who are
compelled to wait at this point for
a delayed trolley Mr.. Gadek has
done more to build up Perth Amboy
and has paid more taxes than all the
last demonstrators put together. And
The American Smelling & Refining
Company's objection that 1t would
tend to make their laborers drunken
and less competent is ridiculous, as
they told the Excise Board they could
easily place a gate at another point
far removed from Mr.. Gadek's place
of business and much closer to Perth
Amboy Even though they do not
see fit to so place that gate, surely
their foremen (unless they are get
ting a monthly rake Off would not
allow a man under the influence of
drink to work when there are dozens
OF sober men at the gate begging for
work.
Mr.. Gadek's record as a saloon
keeper is of the best as there are, so
near as l know, no record of any dis
order, fight, etc, In any of the many
saloons that have been run by him.
How true it is that fools rush in
where angels fear to tread"
ONE OF THE FOOLS.