Norwich bulletin., 1917-10-01
PROHIBITION MEETING AT
 CENTRAL BAPTIST CHURCH Addresses in Behalf of No-License Made by Prominent Lawyers.

Addresses in Behalf of No-License Made by Prominent Lawyers. Over three hundred people assem- bled in the Central Baptist church on Sunday evening at the last pSblic mass meeting conducted by the sup porters of no-license and heard three eminent lawyers. Charles L. tSewart of this city,. Hadlai A. Hull of New London and Samuel H. Davis of wes- terly, in brief addresses on the no-li- cense question. The speakers brought out facts that could not be denied in regards to the evil of the saloon and city.
 A mems meeting was to have been held in the Broadway church but 1t was decided that it would be better to unite the two meetings and the men adjourned to the Central church
 After the devotional service Rev. Edward S. Worcester introduced Charles L. Stewart, one. of the lawyers petition in the superior court last week. MT. tSewart outlined what oc- cured in the court when the liquor dealers tried to prove that the peti- ton was invalid. MT. Stewart said: Tn the first place the. petition had 59o names on 1t but owing to the death of the late Amos A. Browning there remained only 5S9 and of these 33 had failed to give the addresses which they had given on the registration list. It was on these grounds that the liquor dealers contested the petition. Upon investigation it was found that a num- her of the voters had given false ad- dresses on the registration list and that there was one address which had been on the registration list for four teen years and had been wrong dur ing the whole of that period.
 A week ago the liquor dealers . nd VHyTf fJ,A foo fN have clause inserted in the warning, which according to law must be post ed a certain time before the election. stating that there would be a vote on the liauor question; ai .s On a, Monday came to my office and said that they could not agree to have the clause in- serted in the warning until the court had handed down decision. The had to be posted on Wednes- til Tuesday SO it would be impossf- ole to get a sfeStsion until the warn- ing had been posted. I consider this } direct intent on the part of the iquor dealers to break their word with he no-lfcense forces. It was a mean. trick on the part of the iuuor forces.
 The city officials who have a cted in great fairness with regards to the mat ter had the clause inserted in the
 
 In closing MT. Stewart said The is- sue is between the saloon and this beloved country of ours and for one ame in favor of the country
 The next speaker of the evening was 7adiai A. Hull, who spoke of the great 1eed of the people toabolish the sa- oon that the boys who are fighting Q protect our homes from the ravages If nerciless and inhuman foe might 1 lot be weakened and made inefficient 1 hrnnPh nf hat there are 1T saloons in the city If Norwich and with these on every l treet no sane person would doubt for | } minute that our sailors and soldiers | When the soldier and sailor lads get i o drinking they cease to become an | Lsset to the ntafon and become a bur l len and e1 the present time the coun- | ry has no use for burdens. We are | m mperilled so in the name of our young | nen. humanity. home and law and | iecency carry the town for no-license | nd make Norwich a real town.
 Following Major HulPs talk Samuel 1 I. Davis of Westerly. who has been | connected with the Anti-Saloon league or number of years. spoke upon the 1 iquor traffic giving many statistics 1 moving the result of no-license in the tate of Massachusetts.
 The saloon is the enemy of the tax aver. said MT Davis. The average ax of the license cities is $1Os per b bousand higher than in the no-Iicense I fties. Why? Eighty-f1ve per cent. of he pauperism is the result of liquor 5 per cent. of the criminals are re- r. ults of liquor and B per cent of the l insanity is the result of liquor. This 5 the reason why taxes are higher.
 The saloon is the enemy of the wage arner. The average wage per year 5 s74 more in no-hcense cities than , license towns.
 The saloon is the enemy of the ome: There is more misery and pow rty in the license town than in the o-1fcense cities. I' The saloon is the enemy of the pub hi1dren in the schools of the no-H- < ense cities than in those of the 1i- ense towns. Tn the license towns the ft hildren are taken out of school and ( ut to work because the bread win tt CT of the family is g. drunkard II The saloon is the enemy of Nthel hurch. There was 100 per cent. more tendance at the churches in Mass town for ten years of mo- cense than during the previous ten . ears of ,license. There are three principles in life, rst, benevofence or philanthropy. hich is service without profit or hope pro, pronf; second business: which is hich is profit without giving service. S ow- where will we class the 1fouor : aff4c? Surely it is not benevolence ( no saloon keepers give away their t ares Aurely not business because I ere is no service rendered and 1t \ 'es not one any good. Judge for ourselves and give your verdict of ii1ty or not guilty at the polls to- orrow, 6 The collection of the evening was e no-license fight in this city.
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