Prohibition Gains in Massachusetts

International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Dec 30, 1889

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 15, No. 50.

Prohibition Gains in Massachusetts

THERE seems to be a sentiment in favor of Prohibition in the old Bay State, which the elections last autumn did not seem to warrant. On the election of the 3d instant nineteen of Massachusetts' twenty-five cities voted upon the question of license or no license. The Australian ballot system gave every suffragist the privilege of voting as he desired with none to let or hinder. Last year these cities cast an aggregate majority of 1,000 in favor of licensing the saloon; this year their aggregate majority was 3,000 against it. The secret-ballot system did not give the saloon power the opportunity to gather in the floaters.