Saloon-Keeper Supervisor Boasts of Saloon Lineage
“Whose Glory Is in Their Shame.”—Boosting is generally deemed foolish, even when one has something apparently worth the while; but to boast of being a saloon-keeper, and of saloon-keeping lineage, is something rarely heard of. As a rule, men in that business, when outside of their immediate environment, would rather not have their business known. A noted exception, however, is that of a San Francisco supervisor. A correspondent of the Palo Alto Citizen reports a discussion in the board of the saloon-license question, from which we cull this item: Supervisor McGushlin, who was strenuously opposed to high license, stated in making his speech against it, that he was a saloon-keeper, and that his father was a saloon-keeper before him, and he was proud of it. He went on to say further that in his opinion they “should be lenient with saloon-keepers in this matter because of the fact that every man in the room owes his election to the saloon-keepers.” It is a sorry prospect, morally, for a city when the saloon element can wield sufficient influence to choose administrative officers. It had been demonstrated, even to the minds of the saloon-elected supervisors and mayor, that the saloon could not be tolerated during the recent crisis, yet as soon as matters begin to settle, they install the wicked thing again as a necessity—to their own future political prospects. “WHATSOEVER things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things.”