Word: liquor
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Thorpe of Cambridge will speak before the Liquor Problem Club this evening at 8 o'clock in the parlor of Brooks House on "The Gothenburg System." Mr. Thorpe was among the foremost in discussing this system about six years ago, when Governor Russell appointed a committee for investigating...
...points, Reed considered the first two from the point of view of existing conditions in New York. It is impossible to prevent the extensive violation of this law by any ordinary means or to enforce it as one of the general body of laws. Both parties to every illegal liquor transaction are anxious to conceal it. There is no party injured to report the matter to the police and there is upon them the great burden of unearthing the violation as well as of arresting the violator. There is no active public sentiment behind the law demanding its enforcement...
...motive the saloon keeper has to pay blackmail. This is further shown by the experience of Mr. Roosevelt. In the Municipal Affairs for last December, Mr. Jerome said: "I am satisfied by careful investigation that the only result of our joint effort was that during Roosevelt's administration the liquor dealers paid for selling on Sunday $10 a month instead of $5. When the reform administration of Mayor Strong went out of office the tariff went back to the old schedule." And Mr. Low in his letter to Dr. Parkhurst says, "the pressure of strict enforcement causes the fires...
...established the fact that Mayor Low has sufficient power to enforce the excise law and that Mr. Roosevelt, when police commissioner, succeeded in accomplishing a more difficult task and proved this statement by quotations from Mr. Roosevelt himself, Mr. Riis and by citing the resolution passed by the Liquor Dealers' Association at that time. He then cited some of the beneficial results which the Raines Law has brought about, such as reducing the number of saloons in New York City and as far as possible destroying the influences of the saloon as a political factor in the city. He then...
...Liquor Problem Club. The Gothenburg System. Mr. J. G. Thorpe, of Cambridge. Parlor, Phillips Brooks House...