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by on the other side; all that is best and 
bright in social life would shun our _ bor- 
ders. All this is self-evident. The 
town therefore is in debt to the churches. 
“* Frankly, how can that debt be dis- 
charged? By making the work of the 
churches just as easy as possible. By 
this I mean that forces antagonistic to 
thejchurches should be put under check. 
If there is anything that opposes the 
evangel which the churches proclaim, 
that thing should be removed. Nothing 
so obstructs and nullifies the work of the 
churches as the saloon. For that reason 
the town should see to it that no-license 
is granted for the sale of liqours. 
‘There are two reasons why men will 
vote for license atthe town meeting. 
First, because they want it. I have little 
to say to this class, except to express the 
conviction that on sober second thought 
many of these so-called license advocates 
would vote ‘ No.’ 
“There are few men so selfish as to 
wish to imperil the morals of hundreds 
of young people simply in order that their 
taste for liquor may’be gratified. These 
are few fathers who want their children 
to look through the swinging doors of a 
bar room on their way to and from school 
almost every day of the year. That 
seems to be the inevitable lot of city chil- 
dren, God pity them, but it need not be 
the lot of children in the villages of Mas- 
sachussetts. 
“* Another reason why men will vote 
for license is because the no-license law 
has not been enforced. I wish to speak 
very earnestly to this class. You should 
vote for no-license, first, from principle. 
If you believe the saloon is an evil you 
should never join hands at the polls with 
those of the opposite belief. Would you 
like to be photograped standing along- 
side the liquor dealer holding up a ballot 
marked the same as his in the space de- 
voted to the question “Yes’ or ‘No?’ 
““Second, you should vote ‘ No’ be- 
cause a no-license law is the only possible 
basis upon which efforts making toward 
a clean town can rest. If there were no 
such law, however zealous you might be 
for the suppression of the saloon, your 
zeal would not only go for nothing, but 
you. would be laughed at for your pains. 
“Third, you should vote no because 
the larger the no-license vote the greater 
heed will the officials elected pay to your 
demand that the law be enforced. 
“Tt is held by many that a no-license 
law cannot be enforced in our town. 
First, because it is complicated; second, 
because itis unpopular. Neither of these 
reasons are sound. In fact, they are no 
reasonsat all. If the law is complicated, 
who made it so? It would be perfectly 
simple if impartially administered. Any 
NORTH SHORE BREEZE 
machine. no matter how fine work it 
turns out becomes complicated when al- 
lowed to clog with dust, or to fall to 
pieces through disuse. 
As to its being an unpopular law 
there is no evidence that it is. Indeed, 
if we were to judge from the facts in the 
case we would be constrained to take the 
opposite view. It is the old cry of 
‘wolf.’ It is not always those who 
make the greatest noise who feel deepest, 
and because there are some who seek to 
justify a slack enforcement of the law on 
the ground of its unpopularity, the sober 
thinking people of the community should 
not be thus beguilded. That law is popu- 
lar here tonight. It is popular at the 
voting booths. It is popular in many of 
our homes. ‘There is nota mother in 
town with whom it is not popular. 
“©The no-license law should be en- 
forced because it isa just and wise law. 
Its framers intended that through its 
adoption the people could get relief from 
the presence of an unsavory nuisance. 
If the officers receiving the majority of 
votes at the next town election should be 
restrained from entering upon their sev- 
eral offices by a revolutionary element we 
should be greatly scandalized, and wheth- 
er we had voted for them or not we 
should all feel under equal obligation to 
put down the revolutionary uprising, and 
to see that these men lawfully elected 
were inducted into office. The same 
principal applies when considering the 
enforement of the no-license law. 
‘This law cun be enfirced. There 
are men whose special duty it is to see 
that this law as well as others is enforced. — 
ee 
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The machinery of government is quite 
sufficient. Our recouses are very ample. 
‘Finally, the no-license law must be 
prestige as a law abiding community. 
As in the conscience of God it is decreed 
that he who offends in one point of the 
law is guilty of all, 
tain the ea forcenient of all other lawsand _ 
neglect this one, our fame for integrity | 
and civic righteausnese is hopelessly tarn- 
ished. 
a ship, one crime to jail a criminal, and 
enforced if we wish to maintain our 
so though we main-— 
It takes only one rock to wreck — 
it takes only one transgression of the 
carefully devised and 
a seed plot of anarchy and confusion. 
‘You will not misunderstand my mo- 
intelligently ap- 
proved laws of our community to become 
tive in making this personal statement. — 
It is at least a sober statement, however 
else it may fail in purpose. And I am 
of the profound conviction that there are — 
very many who will regard what has been 
said with sympathy.’’ 
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