Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1909-08-20
WORCESTER CELEBRATES.
Mayor of Worlds Largest Prohibition
City Summarizes Results Of No Sa-
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loon Policy.
ing citizens of Worcester, Mass. a
city of 10000. population and now
said to be the largest municipality In
the world under Prohibition, sat down
to a notable banquet Thursday even
ing, June 10, to celebrate the compile
ton of the first year without the legal
lied liquor traffic.
Addresses were made at the banquet
by Mayor James Logan Of Worcester,
former Governor J. Frank Hanly Of In
diana and other prominent public men.
"There are comparatively few men
in this city who have been around the
streets of Worcester more than / have
since l became mayor Of the city,"
declared Mayor Logan in his address.
81 have left the city hall more times
nearer midnight than at any other
hour while have been mayor. and /
have kept a record Of every intoxicat-
ed man l have seen, and i have seen
under the conditions which formerly
obtained more intoxicated men on
Front street in one single trip to the
Union station than / have seen in the
thirteen months of no license.
Why Some Liquor Is Still Sold In
Worcester.
"Some people say, Why is 1t that so
much liquor is allowed to come into
the city in a no license year" And
the answer is: Because the interstate
commerce law allows 1t to come in
and there is no power in Worcester or
Massachusetts to prevent it. Neither
the city nor the state can override the
laws of the national government.
at has sometimes seemed to me In
studying this problem as If about
every law ON the statute book was
put there in the interest Of the liquor
business. and some of the laws on the
statute book in the attempt to control
conditions have legal holes in them
through which you could drive an ele-
plant.
The Value of Prohibition Law.
81 am not looking for miracles In
Worcester in the year of grace 1909.
I don't expect that the old soakers.
who would like drink out Of a bottle
fished out Of an ash heap or a swill
temperance, but am optimistic
enough to believe that the young men
of this generation can be counted on
to do their civic duty with the same
spirit that their fathers did their pa
triotic duty in the days which. looking
back to them through the perspective
of years, is a sacred memory and our
choicest possession"
Richard B. Murphy, secretary of the
no license committee, in his address
noted that there was 113 per cent more
drunkenness in Worcester with the
saloon than without 1t and 119 per
cent more offenders.
William G. Mcnamara. assistant Sec
rotary Of the citizens no license COM
mittee of Lynn, Mass, was present
and noted the fact that his city of
$4,000 had also voted two years In
succession for no license after a Pc
Rod with the wide open saloon.
IT am of Irish parentage." declared
Mr.. Mcnamara, land take a great
interest in this work on national lines.
find that of the great number of ar
rests made in Lynn during the last
license year 1,025 were born In Ire
land. During the first twelve months
of Prohibition the number was re-
duced by 382."
William Courtney. a prominent coal
dealer Of Lynn. was bitterly boycotted
by the liquor men for his advocacy of
no license. "Since Prohibition went
into effect" he says, where formerly
we sold coal by the barrel in certain
quarters we now sell it in ton and
two ton lots"