Norwich bulletin., 1909-09-27

An enthusiastic nO-license rally was
held Sunday evening in Broadway the
| alter, in which the churches of the city
| united and the audience present filed
all the seats ON the main floor and in
! the balcony, the upper gallery not be-
| ink opened. On the stage, where the
| speakers and the male chorus of TWEEN
| ty voices were seated floral decora-
lions had been attractively arranged
by tire Central Baptist Young Fec
| pies Union and in the rear was big
| poster with the pictures of boy and
g. girl, around which were the words:
THE Saloon or the Boys and Girls.
| The Real ISSUE" No-license literature
was handed to all entering.
| Or. Kaufman Speaks.
! o. E. Ryther opened the service by
/ announcing a hymn for which the
chorus led the singing, conducted by
| Frederic w. Lester. DR.. M. S. Kauf-
man. d. D., Aof Trinity Methodist
| church was the first speaker in a Wig
| orous address, at the end of which he
introduced Rev. WIS. MacIntireof HART
ford, one Of the secretaries Of the Com
| necticut Temperance Union. We have
| come to critical hour in the history
our rum ridden. saloon cursed city
This very night our own city Is ex-
listing under a bondage to the hcuor
1 traffic more debasing than African
4
ism more calling than that inflicted
upon the Cubans by Spain. I call up
| on yOu-men of NOrwich-to witness
| the fact that many of our best citizens
| are wearing shackles on their hands,
| riveted there by the accursed liquor
traffic and padlocks upon their lips,
| placed there BY the same despotic
| power They dare not speak ami act
| in keeping with the clear dictates Of
their c0nsciences and the noble i'm
| pulses OF their hearts. This tyran-
| meal traffic has them in its vice-like
| grip. Do net blame too severely, but
| give your sympathetic support to those
| public officials who really want to do
| their duty, but are dominated by the
! frightful pressure brought to bear up
/ on them by the strong drink tyrant.
| Do you say turn them out and put In
fearness men? I will answer: First,
| where will you find the more fearless
men? and, second, It often happens,
| in the a. tempt to elect such, The liquor
| traffic beats y,,u and and puts in worse
men.
/ Net then, remember the Maine, but
remember the crimes, curses and cru
/ elites which for thirty years have been
4 inflicted upon this town by the legal
| lied saloon; remember the homes and
| hearts 1t has wrecked and ruined;
remember Franklin square with it's
| disgraceful array of rum shops; re-
member the Globe saloon, running
| wide open without a license; remem-
Der the underhanded and brutal meth
DDS of the liquor traffic in the present
| struggle; remember the blackmail,
| black hand policy by which it seeks
| to intimidate voters; remember that
on one side Of this battle are the sa-
loon, the gambling den, the brothel,
| and on the other side are the home,
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are you on? Remember when you vote
| for license you vote for all the natural,
| inevitable consequences of the legal
| lied saloon. Remember the chains
| and padlocks of your fellow citizens.
Remember that citizenship is a great
responsibility and for its use or abuse
you will be called to give an account
| to your own sense of manhood--to
your conscience-and to God. Vote
your honest convictions and be Ian.
not a slave.
Rev. w. e. Maclntire Speaks.
Following the applause which greet
ed Dr.. Kaufman's words, Rev. Mr..
MaeIntire took up the argument
against the saloon saying that we are
forced to deal with this business as
with no other, and in our treatment
of 1t by state law we are trying to
eliminate all the danger we can from
d ICCOBnlLGu UQSIIGSS.
previous acquaintance with the tactics
Of the opposition, he said, he might
forecast something that they would
do. Along about the last hour before
election they might be expected to is
sue some startling statements but take
these with a large dose of salt, for the
no-license people have discovered that
such statements coming from the liq-
uor men are absolute falsehoods. They
lie like Beelzebub, said the speaker,
when they try to support their BUSH
ness.
1t is also an argument of the opposi-
ton that you will have to raise your
tax rate and you can't get along with
out the revenue from the fees from Ii
censes. According to the county COM
misSioners report, the revenue in Nor
wich from license fees last year was
s35,2S0. What have you got and what
have they got in return? What have
you lost? Allowing that each saloon
started one man on the road to ruin
In the year, you've sold your men for
$500 per head, less than the price of a
slave boy before the war. Norwich
men are worth more than $500 apiece.
The saloon men have cheated you and
you've accepted the money. A year
ago the state president of the Liquor
Dealers association said in a conven-
ton in Norwich that the average sa-
loon in Connecticut costs its owner s4,-
coo a year, and his receipts were &c.
500. On these showings the saloon
too out of Norwich s598,O00 and re-
turned $35,2S0. Will the tax collector
like to collect the tax on that basis?
The liquor interests have hired Mr..
Klein to go around the state, said
Rev. Mr.. MacIntire, following the tenn
perance speakers, and you'll hear from
Mr. Klein that there's more misery,
drunkenness and crime in no-license
places than in license territory; more
in Maine under prohibition than in
Minnesota under license. AS a matter
OF tact 1t is sobf;ety, industry and COM
fort under no-license, opposted to de-
bauchery. misery and crime under Ii
Gems. The jails are full under license,
the jails were empty. They said in
Kansas when prohibition went into eff
feet that the grass would be growing
in the streets. Then Wen raise more
hogs and less hell" said a Kansas
man. You'll have better streets and
cleaner homes if you vote NO than
il you vote Eyes" He avs loudly ap-
plauded.
A hymn written especially for the
campaign by Mrs. M. S. Kaufman to
the music of Marching Through Geor-
gia was sung by the audience, led by
the chorus. Mr.. Ryther made the fol-
lowing announcements OF evening rail-
lies for the week:
Rallies Of the Week.
Monday. M. c. A. hall. Dr. E. o.
Taylor of Boston university, recently
hirne from world alcoholic congress in
London, Eng.
TuesdayIGuild room, Yantic. Pone-
mo AddrnGC w q