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When the election took place, incorporation carried by 129 majority. 

 There were eight candidates for city trustees, and the five who received the 

 highest number of votes were the ones elected, which proved to be two 

 democrats and three republicans. When the time came to act on the saloon 

 matter they licensed it, but fixed the fee at the highest rate which they 

 thought would be paid without making a legal contest — $100 per month. 

 And thus a full-fledged dramshop went on in Pasadena, with the formal 

 consent of its city authorities. The original saloonkeeper, Beebe, having 

 been engaged to be married, his prospective wife refused to marry him 

 while he remained in that disreputable business (so I was informed), and 

 therefore he sold out to a man named E. I. Campbell, who paid his $100 

 license promptly each month, and pushed the business for all the money 

 there was in it. He employed two sets of bar men and kept the thing 

 open continuously, days and nights and Sundays. It became rumored that 

 he was the son of a Baptist preacher ; and a committee of W. C. T. U. 

 ladies went to labor with him, appeal to his moral nature, etc., and show him 

 what an evil business it was, and so persuade him to give it up. He re- 

 ceived them most politely, listened with gracious composure to their plea, 

 and then replied: " Ladies, you cannot tell me anything new about the 

 evils of this business. I know all about it. I could give you blacker 

 points in it than you ever dreamed of. But I am doing a lawful business. 

 I have both a city and county license, and United States tax permit. I am not 

 in the business for the fun of it, nor because I like it, but because I can 

 make more mojiey at it than anything else." The ladies retired, with some 

 new ideas about " moral suasion " for saloon keepers. 



Much talk was indulged in, in a loose way, against the saloon. But no 

 definite action was taken again until January 23, 1887, when I find the fol- 

 lowing record in the Y, M. C. A. secretary's book which is still preserved : 



"A meeting was held this Sunday afternoon in Williams Hall, at the 

 close of the Y. M. C. A. meeting. C. B. Ripley was chosen chairman and 

 Geo. Taylor, secretary. Remarks were made on the temperance work by 

 several speakers ; and 56 of those present signed a petition to the city coun- 

 cil, offered by Stephen Townsend, to abolish the saloon. Voted that a mass 

 meeting be held in Williams Hall next Thursday evening, at 7:30 o'clock 

 (January 27). The chair appointed Frank Wallace, S. Townsend and P. G. 

 Wooster, a committee to arrange for this meeting. On motion it was voted 

 that the following committee be appointed to ascertain and report what can 

 be lawfully done towards the suppression of liquor saloons in our city * * 

 and to report at the mass meeting : 



Dr. H. A. Reid, of the Congregational Church. 



Stephen Townsend, of the Methodist Church. 



C. W. Abbott, of the Friends Church. 



Geo. Taylor, of the Baptist Church. 



Geo. A. Swartwout, of the Presbyterian Church. 



The Valley Union of January 26, made a brief report of this meeting, 



