Mayor McCarthy and Presidio Saloons
By Editor
Mayor McCarthy, of San Francisco, has aroused a storm of protests as a result of a communication sent to Colonel John A. Lundeen, commandant at the Presidio, in which he seeks to break down the opposition of the army officers to the re-establishment of saloons around the entrance to the Presidio. Instead of bringing the military men to his view, a mammoth petition is being prepared at the Presidio, which will be signed by every officer and perhaps the 30,000 enlisted men at this post, protesting against the efforts of Mayor McCarthy to establish the soul-destroying retreats just outside the entrance to the reservation. When those to whom the people have committed their civil and municipal welfare, and in whom they have reposed their confidence, will go so far in perverting their office as to seek to establish immoral agencies that foster crime and that would drag protesting men down to bestial degradation—what are we coming to?