The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1898-12-13
BELIEVES IN LICENSE.
Ooutney Wants No Prohibition in Wor-
cester That Won't Prohibit

Ooutney Wants No Prohibition IN Wor-
cester That Won't Prohibit.
Thomas N. Doutney, the temperance
advocate, with ideas original and his
own, is back in Worcester on the eve
of another municipal election. He has
read The Spy's accounts of the no
license sermons on Sunday, and has
written his view of the case. Here 1t
is;
| To the Editor of The Spy
| This is election day, the day Whea the
I citizens of Worcester shall say who is
| and who is not to be the mayor. Many
| Of the events of my past are identified
/ with this city | studied one year at Holy
| Cross College and have been here, more
| or less. for number of years. My life.
! as whole has drawn me peculiarly and
/ strangely. yet pleasantly towards WOr-
| cester. ] love 1t as a city and admire its
| citizens. and while the world Is my
| field and while I talk to people at large
! in this and other commemorative. l want
| to say q word in particular TO the voters
! IN this section. My comments are made
from the standpoint of temperance; how
ever, 1 am not crank. I have no cakes
| to fry for my personal benefit. That
will get the frozen face" from many,
/ there is no doubt
/ I read the sermons and addresses in the
papers, yesterday, delivered by ministers
and others in this city, Sunday, on the
| question of license and no-licenSe. After
reading them all and claiming to be hon
1 est in my work and knowing that a
moral coward is the meanest coward that
! lives, and being q recognized worker in
| the temperance field of many years
standing, ] consider 1t my duty to give
| my views and convictions at this time !
! do not speak as either republican or
| democrat, nor as a member of any politi-
| cal faith; [ advise, from every clean and
! honest standpoint, every one in the city
who has vote To unreservedly cast that
vote for mayor in favor Of the Hon.
Rufus Is. Dodge, the present incumbent.
| do not ask whether Mr.. Dodge is a
total abstainer; I do not say vote for
him because he is a. republican, /
simply say vote for him because he is
an able executive, d hard, conscientious
and impartial worker; he is d man who
has hearing for everybody, and is the
soldiers friend"
| Cranks have attempted to heap oppro-
brium upon him because certain laws
! have been transgressed. They have for
| gotten that no power on earth can en-
public are always to blame for the con-
| tinued non-enforcement OF any law
| cannot conscentiouslY say vote for
democrat" although there are many
good, temperance democrats, whom I re-
spect as such), because there is a whisky
plank in the democratic platform, and
| theirs is the 'open-door policy; they
would even go so far as to permit the
| selling Of liquor on Sunday in many
places: nevertheless. I admire them for
| their honesty in being bold enough TO
| openly declare themselves Hence | say.
vote for the Honorable Mr.. Dodge and
those associated with him!"
| have noticed and notice the work of
municipalities, and there is no city in this
country that can boast of a cleaner adj
ministration, taking it as whole, than
| Worcester.
| The ministers and other speakers on
| this Issue, Sunday last, took the pig by
| the tail ana not by the head. They backed
| the horse into the stall, instead of leading
him. They are like the builder who
| thought he could begin the construction
| of building from this hrtic instead of
beginning at the solid foundation
They hold a few meetings Immediately
preceding election and then their effort
| ceases for q year The liquor-interests
work every day the entire year. The devil
is never idle; he never takes a vacation
It's only those who proclaim from on
high that they love God who want and
take vacations. 1t is the same old story
praying for the drunkard. but never going
more good and render more help to and
for the drunkard than all the temperance
talk made. IT, during the past year, as
much time had been devoted in a prac-
teal way to helm the drunkard and the
drunkard's family as has been given TO
the political side of it during the last
week there would not be a liquor shop in
this CITY a wear hence
those who heard those sermons and adj
dresses, will vote against license NV main
reason for referring to that is simply
this. The uuenforced law ALWAYS ma jSas
and other prohibitorv states are living
evidence of that fact In no-license times
people who speak as did those of Sunday.
become moral towards theV were AFRAID
from a business standpoint to assist in the
ment Of Of it, Education is What tt we enc need