BOSTON REFUSES PROHIBITION
The Citizens of Boston, by a vote of two to one have refused prohibition.—Cablegram. Sir.—That Boston, the finest City in America, the' Athens of the States, with ■ its 165 Protestant Churches, 2ff. Roman ' Catholic Churches, and three Jewish ■ synagogues, and 499 schools and. universities, should refuse Prohibition by two to one is a- tribute to the enlightenment, independence, lovo of freedom, high conventional and' religious attainments and principles of its people. It was consistent with its history that Boston should refuse Prohibition. li, was Bostonians who took the first stop against tho imposition of wrong taxation; it was Boston that first laid down the principle) that there should be no slavery in America. Bostonians have honoured tho champions of freedom, honoured the lovers of their country, and honoured the groat in letters and statecraft. Bostonians arc daily reminded by maemficent statues in their streets of Washington, the Father of their country, of Alexander Hamilton, the Scotsman of consummate genius, who drafted the Constitution, of Daniel Webster, the ablest lawyer and most brilliant forensic orator of his dnv. Boston save to tho worla Franklin, Poe.'.Emerson and Abbot. How could one-half a million men and women born in n city that Rave place and birth •; to such honoured names m its history .; accept that narrow enslaving policy called Prohibition. Tho more onlight- ; cned the more highly educated, the ' more truly religious a city the less inclination it will havo to make the admission that its citizens aroincapablo of self-reverence, and self-control. .Boston is such a- city, and it-has accordingly refused Prohibition. ' Boston has fewer paupers, fewer msaiiD, and fewer criminals in proportion ■ 'to its population than any other city in tho States. Its solid prosperity is not surpassed. It has more than double the hotels of any of the chief centres of New Zealand has in proportion to its population. That Boston should refuse Prohibition is a, declaration tint ; its acceptance would not! improve the ; high standard of the intelligence, free- < dom. enlightenment, and religion of its i people. The more benevolent, upright, . and generous a city becomes the more certain is it to refuse Prohibition. Let. it ho remembered, therefore, that the ~ city which was the head centre of the - moVemont for the abolition of slavery refused to countenance the introduction of another form of bondage which would
practically put in gaol the whole Boston's freedom-loving citizens. Boaton's action is an example to the whole world.—l am, etc., MODERATE. A-otkknd, Decciribet 27.
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Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 2974, 11 January 1917, Page 6
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414BOSTON REFUSES PROHIBITION Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 2974, 11 January 1917, Page 6
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