Norwich bulletin., 1913-09-27
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR.
License or No License.

MT. Editor: A week from next Mon day, Oct 6. will decide if Plainfield will have a license for the year to come. Both parties have been very busy for the past few weeks and 1 want to call attention to just how these energetic actions look to me. Now I expect tC have some people say l had better mind my own business and not meddle with what l know nothing about. but l do know what 1 am talking about Last November we were told that the voters of the town had made the liquor business Hoth le- gal and respectable and the saloon must be treated as any other business; last spring we were told there was no evidence of illegal selling, but during the last month there has been consld- erable said and written and also plenty of evidence to convict. Now this would be funny if it was not for it's pathetic side, for we all know those men could have been convicted last summer just as well as now and hun- dreds of dollars saved for the mer- chants of this town.
 Now look at license in just Plainfleld village. A man gets his pay and drops into the saloon for a glass of beer and finds half a dozen friends there With their pay envelopes. One treats the crowd, another treats, and after all have treated they forget to go home and the grocer finds seven of his GUS toners dead broke that week. Or per haps he goes down street to get a bill broke and meets 8 friend and they go in for just one drink and the change is not worth bringing home by the time he gets there. Then to keep in society a man must drop in for a glass Saturday night and Sunday morning he is cross and half sick and the day is anything but restful to the whole family. I am told that gambling is III {,, c1ln IF ic in some and causes many a fight.
 Now if there is no license a man may get a pint or less and go home, but he can't set around and treat and the seller does not dare keep selling to the same man too often for fear of at tracting attention by his frequent vis it's and then only those who can be trusted can get it and that saves some poor families. If a man gets a pint and goes home his wife has a chance to use some of the money for her store bills before he gets that used up and a man who has worked all day will not go out of town for d drink often. If a farmer drives in for groceries and there is no saloon he will go home, but if he gets into a saloon he will stay for all home. shores or groceries, Many say it Is none of their business, but if you are merchant what is spent in the saloon will not pay for your goods, if you employ men, they may be drunk just when you need them most: if you are 8 farmer, people who support the saloon cannot buy vegetables and milk of you. and if you are a teacher you should be interested in the children who cannot have the foed and clothes they need because the mcney goes te the saloon.
 We all know that beer has been seid openly in this village during the past year. but that can be stepped. The ljpnnEo aIlPStiOp is th6- VafarS' hands, but the wives and mothers have the right te de- what they can to shame the men into doing their duty. The saleen keeper will sell to your bey er nay boy just as quick as he will to a stranger, and a drunken man will in=