Editorials – Moral Glory

New York, 1895

The Catholic clergymen of New York have covered themselves with moral glory. They met to consider the question now so much discussed of having saloons open during certain hours on Sunday — the hours when religious services are not being held. A unanimous vote was given against open Sunday saloons. It could not have been otherwise with the declarations of the third plenary council of Baltimore standing as their religious guide. Perhaps the Rev. Mr. Zimmer of Far Rockaway, who so ardently advocated a compromise with the liquor shops in his town, will find food for reflection in this action of the New York clergy.

Some gentlemen in the west end of the county want to build a ship canal from Newtown creek to Flushing bay. It is an enterprise worthy of the best efforts, but these gentlemen are badly handicapped at the outset. They will ask the legislature to make an appropriation of $250,000 for the work, but the state will not be likely to do so, for the reason that the legislature last year granted a charter to a company that proposes to build the canal with private capital.

—The Long Island Farmer, Jamaica, NY, Feb. 22, 1895, p. 4.