Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-10-16
"Rieid" Bay State Rum Law.
Livery fall about this time the board
gets after the licensees and reminds
them what the law IS"


Of Wednesday and refers to the actor
of the Boston Licensing Board. With.
out further comment or proof il
shows vividly that regulation" does
not regulate the rum traffic. Read the
following from the same article
Trading stamps, extra drinks and
all other bonuses and inducements 10
purchasers of liquors are barred by a
decree of the Boston Licensing Board,
{ssued yesterday.
Slipping gifts To imbibers when
practiced only by 4 few concerns could
he we'll hilnked at the board com
mented. But of late so many liquor
dispensers have been competing with
one another in dragging the bibul9usly
inclined into their enporlums that the
board stated IL felt called upon TO take
action.
.sRegrettable results were predicted
from the extension of the custom. The
commissioners. therefore, requested
licensees 10 quit their donations. tie
quests from the board in years past have
amounted to commands. for if requests
are not complied with they have often
been known 10 develop into commands.
Trading stamps have for nearly a year
been the bane of small dealers, who have
been claiming they cut into profits. -Four
drinks for the price of three, South
End custom. although popular at first
has been so widely adopted that ii re-
bounded lar more to the benefit of the
consumer than OF the house.
Hotel proprietors were en1oined by the
board 10 take special care mol To sell to
minors. If an applicant for ardent spirits
bears youthful Visage, such as might be
tasA at.sHfe ..f hFIF
keeper Is directed To refuse to serve him.
In cases of doubt the dispenser is warn
ed not 10 sell He was assured that he
would get ne mercy nor consideration in
case the person TO whom he sold turned
out not 20 have rounded n fun y years
Many licensees yesterday were warned
by letter or circular. Others were called
tn the boards office in Pemberton square
Tor conference. At the conference the
liquor men We're urged not 10 sell 10 Wo-
men any more than they could help.
Prosecutions We're threatened III case
further sales were made to persons under
the Influence of liquor. 1t was pointed
out that theoretically there should never
appear n person very much under the IN
ffaenee of liquor on the streets. because
Il showed he must have been somewha,
under the influence when he was sold
his last drink.
OF COURSE saloon Keepers and
their commission bootleggers and side
line dives always obey orders in the
form of requests" and commands"
No one could suspect that these vul-
lures, subsisting on human blood and
brain. honor of families and food
taken from the mouths of little chill
dren, would ever think of disobeying
xls.tt 11a.
licensing board, They could not stoop
10 deceit for the sake of building UP
their depleted profits, due to special
inducements to drinkers.
II these Boston ruiflsellers where the
streets in some parts of the city are
lined with Keeling, quarreling men and
women, and brazen. sadly unchildike
chiidren:--if these dispensers of liquid
danlhation sHoUED disobey in the
slightest the requests of the licensing
heard, they dhe rumsellers) would be
slapped on the wrist, real hard,
Boston I'umsellers, as In all other
license cities, are selected by the IL
censine board from the ranks OF the
honorable, iaw-ahiding and highly
respectable business and professional
men of the eity-so the rum trust as
serts. And IN turn the licensing
boards are named by politicians OF
approyal Of the liquor interests ane
are elected be- the, rumsellers and
their friends.
Simple. isn't 1t Easy TO understand
why the board gets after the salooi
Raepers. every fall about this time
II is the public evidence OF official duts
discharged. And the saloon keepers
ga en- Offering premiums on drunken
ness and special prizes for new drink
srs-fresh material for. soaks aho
pnms. paupers. Migrants and muir
slerers
Glorious recommendation for city
10 offer country talent rs increase ia
population, isn't it, Country fathers
ami mothers Who hear Of city openings
for sons and daughters should con-
slider long before sending them where
special Inducements are offered to con-
vert them into drunkards and the
lowest grades Of humanity.
Trading stamps. extra drinks and
bonuses are barred by the board,
they say. Competition" must be get
ing sharp TO necessitate suen meth
DDS. We wonder why the board does
not reduce it's list of Licenses, IL
DRINKERS ARE BECOMING SO
SCARCE in Boston that bids are
made and premiums paid for imbibers
Of course /. must not be suspected
that in a great city under the "fegu-
lation'' Of a rum trust approved law
could harbor sa sfaene tissf syo,i,d
do business without the iaw's 'pr5vt
sions: an element tho. is making the
fsaenee hl,vers deauarate