Life — October 3, 1895 — page 4: what you’re looking at

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*LIFE: “QVKile there is Life t VOL. XXVI. OCTOBER 3, 1895. tg West Tuirty-First STREET, New York. No, 666. Published every Thursday. $5.00 year inadvance. Postage to foreign countries in the Postal Union, $1.04 a year, extra, Single copies. 10 cents. Reyected contributions will be destroyed unless accompanied by a stamped and directed envelope. A NEW example of the inconvenience of being sovereigns instead of being ruled by a benevolent despot appears in the obligation that New York State voters are just now under of finding out what their views are about local option. Most voters know what local option is, but comparatively few of them know whether they are for it or against it, or on what grounds. It is very generally s 3 believed that the Sunday liquor ~ @ law which the Police Commissioners are enforcing with so much zeal does not accord with the preferences of a majority of the community. Most of us seem to believe that it is better to have liquor sold during certain hours of the day on Sunday than to try to shut it off on that day altogether. © those of us who hold that view it is a vexation that our personal comfort and convenience should be jeopardized by a law made for sentimental or political purposes by some squad of hypocritical hayseeds at Albany xeept the oni and enforced in no city in the state nm Manhattan Island. We lon't like to be the sport of reformers who believe in viearious reform, and in so far as we understand local option to mean. self- Hut there are jections t both general and particul The most important general persons whe say that onduet of citizens telling what crowd will come on top at the next election, and if a hard crowd can make immense mischief by admini: tering the state liquor law to suit themselves, how much greater disturbance may they not contrive if they have the power to make those laws as well as execute them. . . = HAT New York needs, in the opinion of divers sagacious observers, is such a 1” Sunday liquor law as London has, and which permits the sale of beverages during certain hours of the afternoon and evening. There is no reason that LiFE knows of why such a law should not suit every city in the state. Whatever law we are to have it is important to New York that it should be good, for here at least it is likely to be enforced. A man can endure even a very tight shoe if he doesn’t expect to wear it, and if its proportions are pleasing he may stand around in his slippers and admire it. But if he is going to wear it, itis a different matter, and he won't be happy unless he can get it to fit. Happy the New Yorker who knows what sort of a Sunday liquor law he wants, and can guess, after reading the recently concocted Republican state platform, what sort of a law the Republicans favor, ems likely to fit this and whether it will be such a law as s town, R. RICHARD CROKER has re- turned to these profitable shores. Mr. Croker finds England a pleasant place " of residence, but he does not hesitate to cross the water and parley with his old friends when the hu- mor strikes him. He is an interest- ing citizen, and at present remark- ably solid. The Irish party in Great Britain is very much in need of a competent boss, and it has been suggested that Mr. Croker is a very suit- able person for the job. But there is no reason to believe that he covets It is an exceptional n that knows when he has enough rs to be, Such an exceptiona person Mr. Croker app a memory, the still } TOW that the cup races have become that Not many dissatisfaction with Dunraven'’s conduct obtains is not entirely unrelieved by sympathy is are angry with him, and our representatives have come out of itmuch better than he has, but itis a pity tt WE hands did net come out of it well comicbooks.com.