Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 April 1896 — THE LAW IS A FARCE. [ARTICLE]

THE LAW IS A FARCE.

SUNDAY IN NEW YORK A DAY OF WILD DEBAUCHERY. t - - Hundreds of Saloons Hastily £anlp. ped ns Hotel* Henlthy ImproveU Bent in Commercial Circles—Linton Not in the Race for President." “ ' Ignore the Raines Law. There was more liquor sold in New York Sunday than on any previous Sunday in many years. There was more drunkenness seen upon the streets, more depravity and more dens of vice wide open than the city knew almost in the worst days of pro- ■ , tected viciousness. Three hundred saloons, which had been * transferred into "so-called hotels during the Last week, were ■wide oppn all day and night. The proprietors gloated in the evasion of the law and greeted every .out with.joyous expression. Scenes of drunkenness almost universal on the East Side could have been witnesed in isolated spots all Over the city where the subterfuge protection of a hotel license permitted beer to flow freely over the little saving sandwich that is called a meal. The kitchens of the hotel saloons had no stoves, no chefs, no larders. Thin board partitions had been, set up to make cubby holes called rooms and beds were thrown in, bat no one slept In them. This is a fair sample of all of New York's hotel licensed saloons. In Brooklyn there was also the usual amount of drunkenness. Hotel saloons are not numerous in that city and saloon screens were drawn away from the windows, showing empty interiors. But the thirsty knew where and how to Obtain their beer. j . To Make Postage Stamps Sweeter. Senator Cullem's attack on the Bureau of Engraving and Printing, ana the proposition to have the postage stamps made by i contract once more, seem to have touched a popular choTd. Letters have been received' by many of the Senators from widely separated sections of the country declaring the “stickum” on the back of the postage stamps was of,the most villainous taste, and that the stamps wpuld often decline to adhere to the letters until they were treated from private mucilage pots. In Senator Cnliom’s mail was a letter from the office force of the J. W. Barry Company Of Chicago, in which tjie suggestion is made that in the next supply of stamps prepared for the Government, the “stickum,” ns almost all the letters call it, should be sweetly flavored with -sassafras or strawberry or violet or wintergreen-, or some other congenial flavor, so the pretty typewriter girls to whose lot this duty generally falls should no longer rebel againsf putting on stamps, but welcome the job as a positive treat.

Slight Gain in Trade. R. G. Dun & Co.’s Weekly Review of Trade says: “The sudden change from sleighing to miu.»unmier heat, with fair skies'in most cities, has tested the prevalent idea that good weather only was needed to bring general improvement of business. Everywhere there has been more retail buying, and in some branches better demand at wholesale and at the works hns resulted, but not as yet in most lines. There is no abatement of the almost universal disposition to deal with unusual conservatism, and not to anticir pate tUtuM wants, and this has b*eii especially conspicuous where combinations have been formed or prices advanced. The comparative infreqiftmcy of serious failures, with money less disturbed since gold exports began than might have been expected, helps to give encouragement, but does not kindle speculative fires. Such improvement as appears is mainly of a healthy sort.” Linton Not a Candidate. Congressman W. S. Linton, of Michigan, who has been urged by certain of the A. P. A. leaders as a possible candidate for President, says he is not now, and never has been, a candidate for the honor of nomination. He says the use of his name in connection with the Republican nomination for President is unauthorized, and that it will not be presented to the St. Louis convention with his consent, and that he will not be a candidate on, an independent A. P. A. ticket. Mr. Linton is a candidate for renominatiou to Congress and is fixing up his fences in that direction.