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at his restaurant, under pretense of his ' ' appeal ' ' case in court still pend- 

 ing, and also that restaurants had a right to serve liquors with meals, any- 

 way. The original private "agreement " as to the Carlton Hotel [see pages 

 243-44] now came up with a barb on it ; for the claim was made, and rightlj^ 

 too, that if a "first-class" hotel might furnish liquor with meals, anybody 

 else selling meals might do the same thing. The law could not discrimin- 

 ate in favor of any particular " class" of houses or price of meals. And 

 thus things went on from bad to worse until August 6, 1888, when another 

 great mass meeting was held to consider the situation and decide what 

 should be done. The gauntlet which had been thrown down by violators 

 of the law was taken up with vim and earnestness ; an enforcement cam- 

 paign was here started, which met with organized resistance from those who 

 favored legalizing for a high pj^ice the sale of liquors ; the conflict went on 

 for months, and thus came to be characterized as the "Whisky War" 

 period. 



CHAPTER XIII. 



The Whisky War. — Enforcement Committee. — Progressive League — Petition for 

 Licensed Saloons. — City Election Contest. — Ordinance Changed. — Violations Con- 

 tinue. — Cases in Court. 



THE WHISKY WAR. 



With the appointment of an Enforcement Committee at the great mass 

 meeting in the Tabernacle commenced the period historically known as 

 "The Whisky War in Pasadena." Those in favor of maintaining and en- 

 forcing the city's prohibitory ordinance now organized for vigorous action, 

 and moved at once on the enemy's works, where the law had been violated 

 either openly or secretly for several months. In regard to this historic 

 Tabernacle meeting and its work, I here quote from a public document en- 

 titled "The Whisky War in Pasadena," which was published in vSep- 

 tember — -an edition of 2,000 copies: 



THE mass meeting. 



On Monday evening, August 6, 1888, a mass meeting of about 1,000 

 citizens of Pasadena assembled in the Tabernacle to take action against the 

 liquor outlawry in this city. The meeting was called to order by Col. W. A. 

 Ray, chairman of the committee of arrangements. On motion of Dr. 

 O. H. Conger, Hon. P. M. Green was elected chairman of the meeting. 

 Theo. Coleman, city editor of the Daily Star, was elected secretary. On 

 motion of Dr. Lyman Allen, it was voted that a committee of five be ap- 

 pointed by the chair to prepare resolutions expressing the sense of this 

 meeting, and to nominate a committee of substantial business men to carry 

 them into effect. The chair appointed Rev. D. D. Hill, pastor of the First 

 Congregational church, J. M. Glass, president Pasadena Electric Light Co., 

 T. J. Martin, Dr. H. A. Reid, and H. N. Farey as such committee. 



