The Penn's Grove record., 1916-01-07
HOTEL LICENSE FAILS

AOL1A AlCLNNcE FALLS
The application of Louis A. Bowman.
stranger to Penns Grove, to keep an
Inn or tavern at 10 South Broad street.
Penns Grove, was heard. Because the
premises did not comply with the require
ments of the law for a hotel, the a%ppliea-
ton was laid over. Later the Judge al
lowed Bowman's counsel to withdraw the
application so the premises may be fitted
to comply with the law and the appli-
cation granted at the April term of
court. If the application had been re-
fused it could not be renewed for a year.
That is one of the tricks allowed by a
Judge who wishes to favor the liquor in
terests.
SQUIRE CANNOT SELL LIQUORS
John K. Duffy went to the County
Clerks office on Monday with his bonds
men and $1,000 to procure his license
certificate. He was informed that a law
IF 1902, page 502, Sec. 9, reads as fol-
lows:
1T shall not be lawful for any Court or
municipal authority to grant to any per-
son a license to keep an inn or tavern or
to sell vinus, malt or brewed liquors.
who shall be at the same time a Justice
Df the Peace or in virtue of his Office
Exercise the powers of a Justice of the
Peace, and if any person shall be elected
or appointed a Justice of the Peace or
an officer with the power of a Justice of
the Peace, in any of the counties or mu-
inequalities within this State, during the
time that he holds such a license and
shall accept of said Office, such license
SHALL thenceforth be absolutely void"
Prosecutor ID. V. Summerin had in
formed the Judge of the above law. Thus
the golden fruit turned to Apples of Sod
ONTO ashes on the eaters lips.
~ JUDGE DUFFY HAPPY
squire Duffy, however, announces him
self happy over the turn of affairs. He
I'D not want the golden fruit. His
frieTds wished to thrust it on him. All
he wanted was a vindication of his repu-
tatifn, ~charaeAer, which has been proven
goof in the eFes and in the opinion of
the Judge. The letter and spirit of a
law equity and Justice sometimes differ
from a Judges opinion. Such have ere
atet political revolutions and lost kings
heals in past history. We do not say
theie is a difference in this opinion. 1t
mai save a political, official head.
Ar. Duffy prefers to hold the honorable
position of Squire and be called in
tbe court at dupont Powder Works
~ dge". a most honorable and righteous
Judge. His family does not want him to
go into the degrading business of rum
selling. They do not want to flourish
on the sale of poison.
The United States Pharmacopea has
elm mated alcohol from the drugs bene-
fetal to the human system and put it
among the p~oisons.
WHAT OF THE JUDGE?
Who granted the license? What a
learned Judgei What an honorable
Judge! How gracious and considerable of
the humble and beseeching remonstrantsl
What a noble and highly moral decision.
10 use the words of John Randolph.
1T shines and stinks, it stinks and
shines like a rotten mackerel in the moon
shine" Not only does it disgust the
temperance people of the community, but
meets the ridicule of those who drink IL
quors and favor a licensed hotel for the
travelling public. "a jug shop where a
pint of rum and three bottles of beer may
be bad for a drink" 50 sNS
Behold how he bows before Gawbrimis,
the German god of beer; before BAG
chus, the pagan god of wine, who made
the laws of Rome.
DOES HE KNOW LAW?
The inn and tavern law of 1916, Sec.
10, re; DIS:
1T shall be the duty of, and it is here
BY expressly enioined upon, the said
court, to license no more inns and tav-
erns, in their respective counties, than
shall be necessary to accommodate and
entertain travellers and strangers, to
serve the public occasion of the said
counties, and for the convenience of
mems MEETINGS together to transact busi-
Dass: and to prevent, as much as posi-
bic, inns and taverns to be kept for the
encouragement of gaming, tipping, drunk
enness and other vices
Turn to the law on vice and immoral
ity and find that a person convicted of
swearing or cursing shall pay 81 for each
offense to the poor fund. Failure to dc
SO he shall be committed to Jail not ex-
ceeding four days.
Turn to your law on crimes and read
IF any person shall wilfully bias
eheme the holy name of God, by denying,
fursing, or contumeliusly reproaching His
being or providence, or by cursing or
contumelously reproaching Jesus Christ.
or the Holy Ghost, or the Christian re-
ligion, or the holy word of God (books
of the Old and New Testament) or by
profanely scofing at or exposing at or
exposing them, or any of them, to con-
tempt and ridieule, then every person so
offending shall, on conviction thereof, be
punished by a fine, not exceeding two
hundred dollars, or Imprisonment at hard
labor, not exceeding twelve months, or
both, at the discretion of the COURT
Since the Judge of the Salem County
Court does not seem to know this law,
the editor of the Penns Grove Record APP
peals to the high Court of public opinion.
Since ]. Mercer Davis, a former
preacher, and Judge Waddington.
declared Salem County Court has
nothing to do with morality we refer
them to the declarations of the common
law doctrine that s.The T,eRislafure of all