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more time necessary ; and final action was not taken on the matter until 

 November 13. At this date I find in the city clerk's records that Committee 

 of the Whole made a formal report on the petition for saloon license elec- 

 tion, reciting at considerable length reasons for denying petition. The re- 

 port was unanimously adopted and made of record. The points covered 

 were in substance as follows : 



ist. Present board elected on pledges to maintain ordinance No. 45. 



2d. The claim that public sentiment has changed on the saloon ques- 

 tion since April 9 last, is not warranted by facts. 



3d. Not advisable to engage in another election so soon after the strife, 

 contention and excitement of a national election. 



4th. It is the purpose of the board in proper time to submit the ques- 

 tion of change of city charter ; and the saloon question would then be one 

 of the questions involved. 



The next historic move on this line was the starting of the Pasade?ia 

 Standard, December 22, 1888, by Dr. Reid. The work of the committee 

 which he headed was so constantly misrepresented, falsified and traduced 

 both at home and abroad by the daily newspapers, that he was compelled in 

 self-defense to start a paper of his own. This he did, and kept it up for 

 seventeen months — or until May 3, 1890, after the city election of that 

 year. [See page 218.] 



There is abundant material pertaining to Pasadena's "Whisky War," 

 from 1875 to 1894, to make a large and interesting volume of itself. But I 

 could give in this work only a few of the more prominent historic way- 

 marks along the line of years, or within the most active months of the long 

 campaign. However, I give names, dates, references, documents, news- 

 paper citations, etc., so that any one wishing to investigate the matter more 

 critically can know where to find information at first hand. 



The misrepresentations of the newspapers, both at home and abroad, 

 in regard to the situation in Pasadena were kept up so persistently, and be- 

 came so annoying to the council and other ofiicers, that they at last put 

 forth this document, each point of which was necessary to officially contro- 

 vert some widely published falsehood : 



Pasadena, Cal., March 14, 1889. 



Whereas, P'alse reports have been circulated by the I^os Angeles and 

 other newspapers in regard to the prohibitory or anti-saloon law of Pasa- 

 dena, we hereby state, for the information of all people who care to know, 

 the following facts in the case : 



I St. There is no open saloon within the city limits of Pasadena, 

 though there probably are a few places where liquor is sold "on the sly." 



2d. The law against saloons is as well enforced as the laws against 

 other forms of vice. , 



3d. The city authorities have never given permission to any hotel to 

 keep a bar or sell liquor ; and there is no hotel in the city keeping a bar. 



4th. If any persons in the cit}^ are selling liquors otherwise than in ac- 

 cordance with the provision made for legitimate drug stores, they are doing 



