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istries, and predictions of failure cast against it both openly and covertly by its 

 enemies. From one of these reports dated April 5, 1887, and published in 

 the Pasadena Union, I quote the following passages which show some- 

 thing of the situation then . 



" But sundry special threats have been circulated which it may be well 

 to report. 



' ' While the ordinance was pending a threat was reported as coming 

 directly from the Los Angeles Liquor Association's attorney, that he would 

 break down our city charter — show in open court that Pasadena had never 

 been lawfully incorporated — that all her municipal acts were null and 

 void — and thus remand her to the sovereignty of the county board of 

 supervisors again. This, he said, "would knock the stuffing out of all her 

 damned foolishness on the liquor question." This idle boast fell flat and 

 limp, as a drunk man falleth. 



"2d. They would prosecute those who pledged money in the case for 

 offering a bribe to the city trustees. This little threat was a child of beer- 

 mug wisdom, and died of froth on the brain. 



" 3d. They would prosecute for damages every man who signed a 

 pledge of money to enforce that ordinance, as being engaged in a con- 

 spiracy to destroy the business of a fellow citizen and drive him out of town. 

 This threat got up a little scare for one or two days ; but six men who 

 had signed for $100 each, said they would make their pledges $500 right 

 away if the liquor men would only start in on that game. They didn't 

 start. 



' ' 4th. They will keep on selling liquor in spite of the ordinance 

 against it, and then see what the city will do. This is the latest word from 

 the whisky camp, and is probably just about what they will do. 



" Of course it does not rest with the saloon keeper here. He is a mere 

 figure-head, and will have to do whatever the liquor organization at Los 

 Angeles decides they had better do in this particular case. We know full 

 well the David-and-Goliah nature of the conflict. It is little Pasadena 

 against the entire liquor interest of California ; for if Pasadena can drive 

 the dram shop out of her limits, there are a hundred other towns in the 

 State ready to take the same step at once. Our people are not going it 

 blind. They have counted the cost ; they have planted their battle-flag, 

 and stand firm and steady in solid square around it, ready for the enemy's 

 attack in front, flank, or rear." 



Of course, when the first Monday of May arrived, Mr. Campbell w^ent 

 on with his saloon, in defiance of the law. He was arrested, tried in the 

 Pasadena police court, convicted, and sentenced to $100 fine, or imprison- 

 ment 100 days. C. N. Terry, judge. He appealed his case to the superior 

 court at Los Angeles, and there it hung for several weeks. The committee 

 had engaged Williams & McKinley to carry the case, as attorneys for the 

 people, through the superior court and supreme court for $1,000 ; and after 

 this was all agreed upon, they showed their faith in the case, in opposition 

 to the opinions of a large majority of the Los Angeles lawyers, by volun- 

 tarily giving Dr. Reid a written agreement, that if their position on the 

 right of the city trustees to prohibit liquor saloons was not sustained by the 



