TEMPERANCE.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XVI, Issue 5182, 15 November 1895, Page 3

TEMPERANCE.

Tlio New York correspondent of The Times says with regard to the fight with the saloon-keepers on the i enforcement of the Sunday Closing ■ law in that city "The Sunday 1 Closiug question has been practically ended by thosniTenderof the dealers, There was not much left of it after Recorder Golfs stern handling of tho offenders in tlio Court, of General Sessions, and after last Sunday's police work, when the .official reports showed that less than 1 per cent, of the whole number of saloons were open and were disobeying the excise law."

The IMini'iis/crGaa/fe, referring to this severe contest, in which law and order were really at.stake, says: —" The Sunday Closing struggle in New York, has ended in the triumph of the police and the defeat of the trade. Sunday Closing is the law, but it has been evaded in several ways, and the police have winked at evasion whilst holding out the exposed palm. But Mr Roosevelt lias triumphed. The trade has had to give np tho light, to consider it respectable lo yield, and lo promote a self-denying ordinance. It is nearly always so, when public opinion is resolute and the interests arc fairly tackled, whether they be liquor interests or other."