STEADY PROGRESS IN MASSACHUSETTS.
In the great State of Massachusetts 321 towns and 33 lar^e cities submit the matter of licence or no-license to the vote every year. Any place that does not like no-license may return to license by a bare majority. Each year, however, shows steady gain for no-license, very few aieas going back to license ar.d many adopting no-license. From an American exchange the following is taken :—: — '•' To-day 20 of our 33 cities have voted ' No,' 270 of our 321 towns are ' Xn,' or have so voted, and there is a 'No ' majority in. our State of over 26,000 votes. " But the most extraordinary fact of all is that here in Massachusetts we have one-half as many again as the whole of the rest of the United States put together of large cities which under local option or State action have abolished the saloon — six of the 10 largest cities in all the United States where it has been voted either by local or State action to abolish the saloon are here in Mat-sa-chi^etts." It is rilculatcJ that the net sain in population jiving under no-licen-e laws in Ma-se-acliussetts a-- -i res- id t of t);e 1908 vote it. 45.000.
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Otago Witness, Issue 2892, 18 August 1909, Page 13
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203STEADY PROGRESS IN MASSACHUSETTS. Otago Witness, Issue 2892, 18 August 1909, Page 13
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