Seattle is the largest dr\ city in America. Its Mayor, Hiram GilL had always been a wet. His political and sona| re'ations are wet. He was elected as a wet. lie fought He ;n actment of the dry law. When the drv law came in force, he laboured much to see it enforced. He saw .the good to Seattle in the dry law, and, regardless of consequences to himself, he went into the middle of the fighi. “I am as dry as hell, and if you know how dry that is you know how dry J am. I know men in Seattle who never earned an honest dollar in their lives who are now at work supporting their families.”
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White Ribbon, Volume 24, Issue 284, 18 February 1919, Page 13
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119Untitled White Ribbon, Volume 24, Issue 284, 18 February 1919, Page 13
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