Morning journal and courier., 1889-11-22
AT THE COMING ELECTION. A Prohibition View Of the Pending License Questi on-Prohibition Claim ed Co be Not q Failure.

A Prohibition View Of the Pending
 License Question on-Prohibition Claim-
 cd Go be Not . Failure.
 To tho Editor of the JOURNAL AND COURIER:
 In the JOURNAL AN COURIER of Tuesday something was said of reported concert ac- tion of saloon keepers in this city to favor prohibition and their claim that injustice was done them. Now do not believe five liquor dealers in the city of New Haven have any idea, or ever did have any serious thought, of voting on the temperance side of the question; and they know that the mo- license side is the temperance side. They know that with officials in office who have any vestige of honor left no-license does not mean an opportunity to sell with impunity, or to sell at all without much greater risks than are now run by unlicensed violators of the license laws. Those who don't feel like paying high license fee may talk big to bluff the commissioner into naming lower figure, but as for marching up to the polls with no-license ballot, they won't do it.
 But the good citizens, who love our city and are praying for the moral and physical welfare of all our people, should be on hand bright and early on the morning of Decem- ber to put in . big no-license ballot. And they should bestir themselves before that time arrives and see if they cannot arouse some enthusiasm in behalf of a measure which Is so full of promise for the welfare of our municipality. If any one doubts the de- durability of ne-license, let them inquire for themselves what the facts are as to the suc- cess of the measure in the cities of Semer- vile, Cambridge and Newton in Massachu- setts, and compare them with the results of high license in some other places in that State.
 The Cambridge Tribune, in the last issue, which have at hand, devotes more than two that oity. They have had no-license for three years, and, in accordance with the State Jaw, the vote is to be taken again in December. The preliminary meeting of the citizens in behalf of no-lioense was held last Wednesday evening" It was stormy muddy night. but Temple hall was flied to over flowing with an enthusiastic audience. Ad- dresses were made by the most prominent business men and clergymen of the city. Mayor Gilmore, the present Mayor, said that he was formerly license man, but had come to believe firmly in no-license. The good results from that policy were strongly manifest in the oity, and he could never re. urn to his former idea, SO satisfactory was the operation of the present system. To re. turn to license would mean going backward ten years, and the transformation of pleas
 
 Father Scully, the most prominent Catho- lio clergyman in the city, telegraphed from Baltimore to the meeting: "Put me down aa | a worker for no-icensei" Father Moody, another prominent Catho- | lic clergyman, was at the meeting and testi- | fled that during the past two months he had | visited two hundred families in his parish where it was formerly common to find traces of drink, and he now found such traces in only three or four cases. With such results | to show for no-license he could never by word or deed do anything to bring back the saloon.
 The ministers of Cambridge have organized for the no-license campaign. They had 6 meeting last Wednesday afternoon, attended by clergymen of all denominations, and ap pointed 8 committee to prepare an address to | the citizens, one to arrange for Q mass meet ing under the auspices of the clergy in the largest hall in the city, one to arrange fol simultaneous union church services through. out the city the Sunday night before election | and one to secure contributions from the churches for tlA use of the citizens commit tee. On these committees were pastors oi ConereRational, Baptist, Methodist, Unitarian, | Universalist, Episeopalian and Roman Oath. olio churches and representatives of Harvard
 On Sunday evening the temperance sooie. ties had grand meeting in the largest hall in the city. n. s.
 Now, why cannot the good people of our oitv wake ID in some such fashion as thisi Clsroymen and laymen of New Haven, who of won shsll have the honor of being leaders in movement to redeem this place from the thraldoA of the saloons s~as egasa B LOCAL OPTION.