Removing Screens from Liquor Saloons
The new law which went into operation in Massachusetts on the first of May, and which gives licensing boards in towns and cities power to order all screens, curtains, stained glass, etc., to be removed from the windows of liquor saloons from midnight until six o'clock in the morning, and all day on Sunday, it appears is already giving liquor-sellers serious trouble in many places. In Cambridge, where the law has been enforced, the New York evening Post mentions that the dealers say "that the consequent loss of custom has amounted to fully fifty per centum of the former trade, and a few assert that they will be compelled to leave the business." By all means let the screens and blinds be removed.—Am. Prohibitionist.