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enforced the law impartially with all the vigor I could control. . . . 

 I looked it all over to see what I had accomplished; I found that I 

 had driven out of the business one set of men, and another had come 

 in worse than the first. I found that the young men were establish- 

 ing club rooms. Not only did they become drinking places, but they 

 brought in gambling and other vice. While I was driving liquor out 

 of the ordinary shops I was driving it into houses and kitchens, where 

 even children dealt in it. ... I am sorry to say it, but the law 

 makes perjury alarmingly common; it opens up ... an avenue for 

 bribes.* 



" The local authorities could not be trusted to enforce the law. 

 The price of liquors has been lessened and the quality is worse. . . . 

 To those who shunned the open bars the apothecary shops supplied 

 liquor by the bottle as often as desired. . . . Then arose pocket 

 peddlers, young men who loiter about the street supplying customers 

 from the bottle with a drink known as splits a concoction of the 

 cheapest alcohol mixed with a dash of rum and coloring matter, 

 which produces a dangerous form of intoxication. . . . At the city 

 agency the question 'Medicine?' and the answer 'Yes,' was quite 

 sufficient, and throngs of people were constantly waiting with flasks 

 to be filled. . . . ' Bars,' ' Eating Houses ' (so called because pro- 

 tected by the police), ' Kitchen Bars,' ' Pocket Peddlers,' ' Hotel 

 Bars/ ' Apothecary Shops,' ' Bottling Houses/ ' Express Companies/ 

 ' Clubs/ and the ' City Agency.' " 



But all these, under the very eye of the late Hon. Neal Dow, were 

 powerless to convince the Hon. Neal Dow that his policy was not 

 a massive and monumental success, and to the end of his days the 

 good old man delivered glowing eulogiums upon its exalted benefits 

 to a suffering and liquor-ridden world! 



Among the novel devices among the statutes of States classed as 

 licensing sales of liquor (or which have rejected prohibition) may 

 be mentioned the following: Apothecaries may sell without a license 

 if they keep records of sales. Purchasers of liquor must make 

 affidavit of the purpose for which they require the liquor. Physicians 

 prescribing liquors must make affidavit that they are required by 

 the case they are attending. Public officers who tolerate or refuse to 

 prosecute are fined. Name of owner of premises where liquors are 

 sold must be painted in large letters on outside window with the 

 word " owner " added. A provision that any one may sell liquor, 

 but that the Legislature may provide in any way it sees fit against 

 " the evils resulting therefrom." No barmaids, or dancing, gam- 

 bling, or oil paintings on premises where liquor is sold. The pro- 



* Annual Report of the New York State Commissioner of Excise, 1897-1898, 

 p. 716, Id. 



