Word: saloons
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...practically irrepealable. In the state legislature, which alone has the power to annul the law, New York City has only one-third of the representatives and according to Mr. John G. Agar, in Municipal Affairs for December, "upstate sentiment is unanimously opposed to the legalization of the Sunday saloon." Theodore Roosevelt was put at the head of those forces which could repeal this law, and failed because his enforcement took effect only on the people of New York City and made the law obnoxious. As Dr. Abbott said a few weeks ago, the old truism of enforcing...
Grossman, in the second negative speech, contended that the strict enforcement of the excise law and the closing of the saloons brought about violations of the law in a co-ordinate form which are just as illegal and even more pernicious in their nature than those which it is attempted to suppress. But, on the other hand, Mayor Low's policy of judicious enforcement, recognizing that the law is not enforceable strictly, is made necessary by forces actually at work in New York life. The first of them is the increased temptation to blackmail which strict enforcement would hold...
...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 said that even admitting that conditions in New York City were as bad as the negative had painted, that the policy of the affirmative offered...
...license system is also generally admitted to be a failure. It leaves the saloons under unrestricted private control, with the tremendous stimulation of private profits. Though the license system is as well developed as it can be, it has neither decreased the political power of the saloon nor lessened intemperance to any extent...
...Club for the Study of the Liquor Problem. The Saloon as a Social Institution. Randall Room, Brooks House...