Sunday Closing in Fort Wayne
By Editor
THERE is a Sunday-closing movement on foot in Fort Wayne, Ind., which seems to be directed solely and honestly against the saloons. The new mayor of that city has created a profound sensation by demanding a reorganization of the police forces, and the strict enforcement of the law with reference to the liquor traffic. Sunday, May 19, every saloon in Fort Wayne was closed, both front and back, for the first time in twenty-five years. The Liquor Dealers' Association held a meeting the same afternoon and decided to file affidavits against everybody found following their usual avocations on Sunday, and thus make the enforcement of the law general, hoping in this way to create public sentiment against it; but the mayor has publicly stated that he will dismiss all such cases brought before him, thus openly committing himself to war on the saloons and gamblers alone. We shall watch the progress of this controversy with some interest.