. The passing of the saloon; an authentic and official presentation of the anti-liquor crusade in America;. I once knew a saloonkeeper, a quiet, white-haired old man who soldgroceries in the front of his shop and intoxicating liquors in the Sundays the front of the shop was closed, but customers had access bya side door. Had the side door been closed, they would have gone to thesaloon on the corner. As others violated the Sunday-closing law, this oldman conformed to custom, on the ground that the law infringed upon per-sonal liberty. For the same reason he sold to minors. But he sold o
. The passing of the saloon; an authentic and official presentation of the anti-liquor crusade in America;. I once knew a saloonkeeper, a quiet, white-haired old man who soldgroceries in the front of his shop and intoxicating liquors in the Sundays the front of the shop was closed, but customers had access bya side door. Had the side door been closed, they would have gone to thesaloon on the corner. As others violated the Sunday-closing law, this oldman conformed to custom, on the ground that the law infringed upon per-sonal liberty. For the same reason he sold to minors. But he sold once too often,and a seventeen-year-old boy who bought drink at his bar, became deaddrunk for the first time on a Saturday night, and died in bed before day-break of Sunday. An inquest was held, and it was ascertained that theboy had belonged to a club organized for the purpose of getting drunk,one of scores of similar clubs in the city. Witnesses testified that he hadbought whisky, cheap whisky, at the old mans bar. The old man him-self, having been subpoenaed, testified that he had sold whisky to many. PQPQ O H| 31
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