Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 July 1886 — Prohibition in Massachusetts [ARTICLE]

Prohibition in Massachusetts

Lafayette Call. . t We are indebted to Ira G. Howe, who is spending,a few weeks at his old home in Worcester, Mass., for a copy of the Daily that city, of last Sunday, with an ar tide marked for attention. Worcester is a very strong prohibition city, the temperance law being always strictly enforced- Yet the article referred to by Mr. Howe shows that inside of the seventeen days previous to May 4 last, 6,781 pints of liquor were sold by the druggists of that city. Tl;o average price paid was 75 cents per pint. These figures, as officially reported, show only a small part of the liquor sold in this way in that city, and many a pint and quart were gotten away with, of which no memorandum was ever made. From this it would seem that in Wor tester, at least, prohibition does not prohibit. - .