Quincy's Prohibitionist Record
The town of Quincy, Mass., has been a prohibitionist town for the past twenty years. During that period the population has more than doubled; the valuation of property has increased nearly three-fold, the deposits in the savings banks nearly five-fold, and the number of new houses more than five-fold. Notwithstanding the great increase in population, the amount expended for the poor has actually decreased 12 per cent during that time. What the absence of liquor has enabled Quincy to do, it will enable any other town to do. The advocates of the abolition of the liquor traffic have an unanswerable argument in the existence of this town with its model record. It stands as an object-lesson to the whole country; and yet it is not the only town in the United States, by any means, that has had such an experience as this.