The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-03-20
EXPERIMENTS ON SALOONS
MORE YlNKEES GET DRC M
SITTING THAN STANDING.
Take Away screena and TheS DrtRh Ens
Enthusiastically In Piain saGht- higher
Ilcease Zee. More Drtnks-OnlS Cure
a. PrOhihllIon. Insists Pref. NleAosls.

l1ceRse Zee. N0Pe Dvtnks-OnaS cure
IN ProhihiIlOn. Insists Proa. NlcAosls.
Prof John A Nichols. one Of the many
MASSACHUSETTS, prohibitionises who have
run for Governor % their state. told 7OO
members Of the New York county pro-
hihitionist organization who dined In
a vegetarian restaurant In Bicecker street
last night some of the eccsntrictties OF
the attempted regula ton OF the LIQUOR
trafic as IL had been practised In AAsaa-
chusetts He drew = lesson from the
failure 81 these attempts to point Ms
argument that regulation does not rseu-
late and that prohibition IA the only sure
curb upon the liquor business
When regulation was fret attempted
in his State. said Prof Nicholls. one OF the
first provisions made was that every
sellsr'of liquors must have a good moral
character Though some could not see
eny CONTRADICTION inherent in this pro-
vision. Il took very wise man To discover
that whereas a seller % beer and spirits
must have a good moral character under
this Law. anybody with no character
whatever was free 10 sell boots or butteF.
Then through the wisdom Of the original
liquor regulators evsTy saloon keeper was
required 20 have victIIaller's license.
the theory being that one who sold whIskey
sold "A necessity Of life and should sell
other kindred necessities.
The letter e this Law prohibited selling
liquor over a bar said the speaker. but
this was ignored for years until We got
Governor who tried TO enforce this part
~ the law 40 well as the rect Of IL. Then
came some reforners, who said that ~
saloon keepers we're forced 20 put tables
and chairs in their places 20 that their
patrons could sat down and make a meal
at the same time they tooN their drinks
there would be lees liquor consumed.
This recommendation IN the form OF an
amendment was passed through the
Legislature. for you can pas almost
ANYTHING through the Massachusetts, Leg
stature that does not seem important
Every saloon was forced to install tables
aud chairs Al the end 81 the firet year
after this amendment 10 the law was
passed the reforiners took count ~ thu
number II cases 81 drunkenness that had
occurred IN the State In the year past and
discovered that more men had got drunk
sitting down than they had before stand
ing up.
Then these reformers said that u
saloons were obliged 90 remove their
screens from windows and doors men
This was put through the Legislature
ia the form 81 an anendment and nov
Won can 20 by the bars in Boston At any
hour - the day and see men tned up
three deep waiting for their drinks. AFTER
this change had been in force for year
n was discovered that there were stttl
NOR, dr,Inks IN Massachusetts, than ever
befnre
Prof Nichols said that the neat at
tempt a. regulation was to close all saloon
back doors. on the theory that men used
them - escape ObssrNation In entering
the hare All hack doors were clossd fer
q wear and still the tally % those who
had fallen grew apace High icenes vas
the next and last eSpedient Tried. and
though saloons IA Massachusetts, now
the country there were 5000 arrests for
drunk enne-S IN the state the first year
after the high license law vent into eject,
aud sometimes the record in Boston runs
20 i?I persons arrested in a day for drunk :
enness
-Bu-ion has tried every recommendA-
ton 81 regulation put forward by the
Mode License lea que. which n sp6nsored
by the brewers aud distillers. said Prof
Nicholls vet Judging the tree by Ito
fruits regulation 81 the liquor traffic 10
futile
The guest Of honor at the dinner Of
ire ProhlbItIdhists wAs Uncle Jerry
Brooke whose ninetieth birthday IL II
to-day Uncle Jerry became q membsT
- tho New York police force Ia 1897 and
remained with the force for eighteen and
a half years retiring with the rank Of
ser eani yet he helped 20 Organize the
Prohi bItion party at a meeting which
took place IN his house IN 1882