Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 70, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 February 1909 — PASTOR FIGHTS FOR LICENSE [ARTICLE]

PASTOR FIGHTS FOR LICENSE

Regulation of Traffic In Liquor Favored by Long Island Rector. New York, Feb. 2. —Two thousand letters headed “Grace Church Rectory, Riverhead, Long Island,” were sent out by the Rev. William A. Wasson, rector of the church, In the interest of saloons and their licensing. “.The object of the league,” the clergyman says, “is to convince our fellow citizens that the licensing of the liquor business and its proper regulation is a far better plan than that of no license, which has always caused lawbreaking, perjury and hypocrisy.”