270 HISTORY OF PASADENA. 



"Those who know me know that I am a very decided republican. I be- 

 lieve in the party, and the men who represent it. I started out in the advo- 

 cacy of a republican ticket for our city government. I found that party 

 lines were to be thrown down and a new issue taken. Shall we maintain 

 ordinance No. 125 ? They want to modif}^ this ordinance so hotels can serve 

 wine to their guests. If this law is made we will have hotels on every 

 corner. Do you think any one would come to Pasadena to get a drink ? 

 Where one would come hundreds would stay away. Our grand scenery, 

 beautiful lawns and grand orange groves are not the chief glory of Pasadena. 

 It is the order and sobriety of our city. The modification of ordinance No. 

 125 was likened to the crevasses which cut breaches in river levees, caused 

 at first by crawfish, which perforate the banks with small holes, but 

 which end in inundation. I^et there be no crawfish holes in Pasadena. I 

 beg of you, my friends, that you see to it that the flood-gates of intemper- 

 ance shall not be opened on this city." 



"Judge E. J. Millay, formerly judge of Sagadahoc county, Maine, was 

 called for, being one of the prominent republicans of the cit}^ ; and some of 

 the principal points of his speech were : We have assembled here to discuss 

 the issue of the coming election. The issue is, ' Shall we maintain the pro- 

 hibition ordinance or shall we license liquor sellers ?' Let me say to you 

 tonight, if you change that ordinance you will take a backward step. 

 There are more than four times the guests in Pasadena than Los Angeles, 

 in proportion to the population. Our prosperity depends on the mainten- 

 ance of our ordinance. 



"Rev. D. D. Hill, pastor of the Congregational church was next called, 

 and he gave a rousing short talk of no uncertain sound. He made the 

 point in particular that Pasadena has her freedom from saloons as her one 

 crowning advantage which no other city on the coast has, in combination 

 with the same other attractions, and this will draw to us the best sort of 

 families to reside here, for their children's sake. Pluck that crown from 

 our fair Pasadena's brow and you ruin her good name and destroy her pros- 

 perity." 



Rev. E. L. Conger, D. D., pastor of the Universalist church, was called, 

 and from his speech as reported in the Staridard I quote this passage : 



" Ever since I cast my first vote for Abraham Lincoln I have been a 

 republican. I believe the people should rule. I am for this citj^ for its 

 government and its laws. Is there any other issue before this city than the 

 one embodied in ordinance 125? The gentlemen on the other side say, 

 " There is no issue ; we don't want saloons — neither do you. We want an 

 economical government — so do you. There is no issue." But there is an 

 issue. We all understand that — and out of the whole column of the so- 

 called Citizens' platform, the issue is all centered in three lines — 



''Resolved, That we are in favor of our- hotels being allowed to 



FURNISH WINES AND LIQUORS TO THEIR GUESTS." 



' ' This is the issue and the only issue. All the rest of the Citizens' 

 platform is an unjust attack upon the ability and integrity of our city 

 councilmen, who are entitled to thanks instead of censures, for they have 

 served the city gratuitously and faithfully." 



From the resolutions adopted as the sense of this meeting I quote only 

 the portion covering the special topic of this chapter : 



