The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-12-10
T. N. DOUTNEY
TURNED DOWN.


! IlSul ulTeCllOn, can pcISudue many VIZ
ers to cast a no-license vote. He said
| that hornet can make things pretty
| lively, but a woman is worth a whole
| bunch of hornets if they but perform
/ their duty as Christians.
! If the saloons are to be abolished,
| however, Mr. Puddefoot claims that
some place must be provided for the
| men. In Worcester he would have 100
good coffee houses, Not the usual cof-
fee house, where a scripture motto on
the wall is made to serve for cream, but
places where good, healthy coffee is
| served. The so-called coffee rooms in
many cities are enough to make a
sober man go ON a tear.
Mr. Puddefoot closed by saying that
if the people who are working to carry
the city for no-license put in the en-
thusasm evidenced in the man who
starts in for an evenings carouse and
spend money as recklessly as he does,
there would be but one result.
A A. White said he believed in
temperance and no-license. When in
politics his friends had been alarmed
on account of his going into temper
ance rallies, and speaking in favor of
what he believed, but he won out just
the same. He said that no saloon
keeper is proud of his finished work,
and that no man is turned out of the
brollen-down, dirty loafer when he has
no money to spend and is reduced to
the last stages of degradation. 1t is
then that the saloon keeper turns the
poor wreck over to the charitable So
cieties for them to take care of while
he reaches out for the youth and the
laboring man.
Mr.. White referred to the fact that
$500 children are being cared for by the
sfa+s ~ =.
phans, but those rescued from their
own homes, taken by force in many
cases and cared for when the parents
were untitled by drink to care for
them longer.
Next came the first Doutney episode,
and when the smoke had cleared away
Rev George w. King was introduced
Mi King said that during the past five
weeks he has been conducting revival
service and during that time many
men have come to the altar under the
influence of liquor. He considered that
no men We're more to be pitied nor
harder to redeem from the error of
their ways than the poor fellows who
are slaves to drink. He was sorry that
the sixth ward had not produced a
stronger no-license vote in years past,
and hoped there would be an improve
ment this year.
much liquor is sold during a no-license
year as during years when license is in
! erect, but he does believe that all the
arguments introduced in favor of Ii
cense may be used equally as well in
! favor of gambling houses and other
evils tabooed by law. He believes in
getting Do-lieense and keeping it. He
urged that men use individuality in the
vote and pay no attention to what
! their i- 10
Mr.. King said he had heard of a man
who had been going about town lately
talking wildly on the license question.
lie understood that this man had once
been drunkard, and while he could
/ not sympathize with his wild talk he
I prayed God to bless him and keep him
/ from falling into his old habits.
! Rev. DR.. Willard Scott made strong
! address. in which he brought out the
idea that in providing for the present
! license law, the temperance people real
/ ~ ala more to injure themselves than
/ Otherwise and the system fought at
| the time of its introduction is just what
/ the saloon men want now, and what
they are working for. He said, be-
/ cause this business is sanctioned by
law, the saloon has as good a right in
the community as the church. Giving
such sanction has made it a thing to be
feared. and increased the chances for
! damage. In the first place, license was
a restrictive measure, and the saloon
| men We're against it. They did not
realize to what length it would go
Neither did We A man has right
to keep a saloon as the matter stands
at present
When firing the gun against license,
don't aim in the wrong direction. Aim
toward yourself. We west-siders are
doing this, 1t is said with no-Hcense
that liquor will be sold in the high
ways and byWays and by way of the
side door, but this would be better than
having the front and rear doors open
The liquor dealers have put up screens
before the windows; let us put up the
blinds
The saloon is a most dangerous ele-
ment in the community, because II
creates appetite. | would be willing
that all people with the appetite should
be gathered together and shut up in a
saloon forever if in this way we could
rid ourselves of the appetite It is in
creating the demand that does not ex-
list. that does the damage
When the number of saloons was re-
duced from 1000 to ZOO the power of
the whisky business was placed in the
hands of few men. l believe Henry
George was not altogether wrong in
his estimate when he said that the
surest antidote for the liquor question
was free whisky. Not only is the sa
loon store, but it has become a DO
Hucal headquarters as well, reaching
out for legislators and bribable officials.
We cannot stop drinking by law, but
we can shut up the gilded den We
cannot do much for the old drinker
but we can for the younger ones. You
say a no-license law cannot be en-
forced. | was at dinner where the
mayor was present a short time ago.
and | should judge he was man who
would enforce it. But what if officers
do not attend to their duties. The
citizens have remedy for such action
the following election day
They say we cannot carry the cleo
ton. We are not talking for Tuesday
but for the town and eternity. 1t is
said that we do not want to drive out
| the saloon, but regenerate it. How
shall we dot it? Have grace at the
bar or prayers after services are over?
Or shall we establish church saloons.
as has been tried in some places? l
say no power on earth can
keep young men out of the open saloon.
The only way to make them respect
able is to turn them inside out. AS
the woman said to the tramp who ap-
Dlied for assistance. Had you rather
be hit with an axe or be shot?" We
should give the saloons their choice.
They must be hit or downed by the
ballot. Tuesday They have hired all
the hacks in town, kept printing presses
running most of the night printing car
| tickets. in order, according to their
arguments, to keep Worcester from be-
ing flooded with no-license rum. No
more appropriate Christmas present
can be devised than to make this city
a Christmas present of no-license.
Rev. Roland A. Nichols pronounced
the benediction. and Rev. Mr.. Thomas
invited all those who were able to take