No-License in Quincy

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III. The No-license Committee. IN UNION THERE IS STRENGTH. THE Legislature of Massachusetts had passed the local option law. Every community could now decide for itself for weal or woe on the license question. Quincy with its forty-two saloons seemed to many to be doomed to the liquor element, and...
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III. The No-license Committee. IN UNION THERE IS STRENGTH. THE Legislature of Massachusetts had passed the local option law. Every community could now decide for itself for weal or woe on the license question. Quincy with its forty-two saloons seemed to many to be doomed to the liquor element, and even the most enthusiastic temperance people had little faith that the city would ever be benefited by the law passed. Thrice happy ought he be who so wisely thought out his plans and courageously executed them, that the darkness of despair was lost in the sunshine of assurance and hope. All credit, indeed, to the man who set the wheels of reformation in motion; all honor to the men who sustained him and his work, making it their work. The Citizens' Temperance (No- License) Committee was organized March 16, 1882, and immediately began its active labors, which up to this time have been unceasing, in behalf of a large No vote on the license issue. Mr. Theophilus King was chosen chairman of the Committee, and for fifteen consecutive years held this office, doing honorable, faithful and efficient work. To the man who stood at the helm so firmly and well belongs, in no small measure, some degree of the success achieved. The basis of membership which was adopted for the permanent organization was as follows: That the Committee shall consist of all the resident clergymen of Quincy, and, besides, eight gentlemen and four ladies from the Center, and four gentlemen and two ladies from each of the other districts, viz: West Quincy, South Quincy, Atlantic, Wollaston, Quincy Point. The object as adopted read, to use all legitimate means for securing a ' No ' vote and its enforcement. Miss L. A. Pierce, who acted as temporary secretary of this first meeting, de...