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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
Augusta 31 
" FREE LUNCH.’’ 
No doubt mo t of our readers know 
something abouu the time we have been 
having in New York City over the closing 
of saloons on Sunday. Some years ago, 
the politicians passed a law which pro¬ 
hibited Sunday selling of liquor. They 
had a double purpose in view. They ex¬ 
pected to deceive the temperance people 
of the State by making them think this 
was a great bit of moral legislation ; at 
heart they had no idea of having it en¬ 
forced properly. The plan was to arrest 
only those liquor dealers who were not 
in the political deal, or who did not con¬ 
tribute money as bribes to the police. 
Of course this left all the best trade to 
the rascals who bribed and thieved. 
Their money even went to the judges on 
the bench. The Sunday trade was the 
most profitable, because on that day 
they had a chance to get most of the 
working man's wages away from him. 
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At last there came a brave and honest 
man at the head of the police force. 
He said that law must be honestly en¬ 
forced, and he made every saloon shut 
up. Of course they tried to beat him. 
Men went sneaking into back doors, 
crawling through sewers just to say 
that they got a drink on Sunday. How 
that man was abused and insulted for 
saying that the law must be enforced. 
Hut public sentiment was with him. 
The people are always on the right side 
when they once understand a question. 
The best people in the city upheld him. 
The great Catholic Total Abstinence 
Union met here and gave the rum sellers 
red hot shot. That knocked the pins 
from under them, and last Sunday they 
practically surrendered and shut up their 
saloons. They found that police and 
judge meant business at last; that 
money and “political pull” had lost their 
grip this year. The loss of this Sunday 
trade has brought ruin to thousands of 
rum sellers. Since June 1, over $1,000,000 
in chattel mortgages have been put on 
the fixtures in these saloons. Down in 
the tenements where the poor people 
live, there is less crime, less drunken¬ 
ness, more rest and more food and ice. 
A good share of the money that formerly 
went to buy Sunday beer, now goes to 
buy fruit, milk or other necessities. This 
is the general testimony of those who 
go among the poor and note their con¬ 
dition. 
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Now our first thought about this is a political 
one. What, politics in The R. N.-Y. ? Yes, a very 
simple dose of it on this occasion. The enforce¬ 
ment of this Sunday closing law shows the pos¬ 
sibilities of our government. There are lots of 
good laws, both State and National, that were 
passed like this liquor law without any expecta¬ 
tion of really putting them in practice. They 
now sleep like a dead letter, while if some true 
and brave man were to enforce them, they would 
make the rogues and scoundrels jump, like a hot 
poker. We need men to handle the reins of 
government. We have had enough of rogues and 
mere figureheads in office. Just now, a dozen 
men are scheming and figuring to secure the 
Presidential nomination next year. They all 
seem to be dodging every living issue for fear 
some one will really pin them down in a black 
and white promise to go in and enforce some of 
these laws that are now pigeonholed. We are 
tired and disgusted with such shuffling, and our 
opinion is that the majority of the plain common 
people of this land are losing faith in leaders 
who fly the flag of party above that of country. 
Give us men at the head of affairs who will en¬ 
force some of these dead letter laws with an iron 
hand. Quit making so many new laws, and en¬ 
force the good old ones. Quit dodging and shuf¬ 
fling over the tariff, and go down to the quick and 
boldly face living issues. 
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But, hello ! See here ! We haven’t said a word 
about The R. N.-Y. That won’t do ! The appli¬ 
cations we have to make from this liquor business, 
are two: In the first place, we know that many 
farmers are suffering and complaining about 
hard times—with reason, too; for they find no 
cushioned seat on the saddle this year. Our point 
is that many farmers suffer, not because they 
need new things, so much as because they do not 
enforce good and sound laws of nature that are 
fixed and sure. We don’t mean political laws, but 
laws of cultivation,watering, breeding, manuring, 
selling and packing. In their haste fora short cut 
to relief, some farmers have let these true laws of 
science become a dead letter. The result is that 
they are paying bribes and tributes to a lot of 
scrubs and rogues, who demand their pay just as 
these New York City scoundrels have done. The 
R. N.-Y. says, “ Enforce the laws of true agricul¬ 
tural science,” and that is what we shall stick to. 
Here is the other point: All these saloons in 
the city give away what they call a “ free lunch.” 
Some of these set quite a table, and those who 
buy liquor are invited to step up and help them¬ 
selves. Now, how can they afford to give away 
this food ? It’s a simple thing when you know 
how. This food is always seasoned with a free 
hand. Salt, mustard and pepper are poured into 
it. What’s the result ? Every man who eats it, 
has a thirst like that of a two-inch steam pump, 
and he drinks twice as much liquor as he other¬ 
wise would. There is no charity in a “free lunch” 
—it is what you can call a “ Business Bite,” for 
every mouthful creates an extra thirst for a glass 
of beer or something worse. 
Some one might start in and say that our short¬ 
term offer is like a “free lunch.” In one sense, it 
is. Strictly speaking, we lose money on this offer; 
but we expect to get it back when these short¬ 
term subscribers renew in January, and become 
yearly readers. To that extent, it is on the “free 
lunch” principle. We hope that it will create a 
thirst for more. But there is no extra seasoning 
in these autumn issues. Not a bit of it. We shall 
print 52 issues next year, and each one of them 
will contain the best work we are capable of 
crowding into it. No “free lunch” about that, but 
a good, square meal. 
It beats all how the trial subscriptions are com¬ 
ing in. North, East, South and West are con¬ 
tributing. The winners of the dollar prizes last 
week were : 
Aug. 19.—Wm. H. Bunting, Lincoln Co., Ont. 
20. —D. J. Shanahan, Harford Co., Md. 
21. —C. D. Carpenter, Chautauqua Co., N. Y. 
22. —Jay II. Northrup, Lawrence Co., Ky. 
23. —S. P. Bell, Washington Co., Md. 
24. —V. M. Lord, Winona Co., Minn. 
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