Saloons Evade the Liquor Law

International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, Cal. · Nov 11, 1886

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 12, No. 43.

Saloons Evade the Liquor Law

In Springfield, Mass., to evade the liquor law, the saloons are being turned into club rooms, with no change at all except in the name of the place, and in the fact that those who formerly frequented the saloon, now become members of the “club.” Thus under the new title the same old business is carried on in the same old way, in defiance of the law. There are ninety of these clubs in that city, and thirty-seven of them are only old saloons under the new name. So says the Springfield Republican.