Notes of Reform
February 17, 1900
Summary
A lack of “legal saloons” is causing reform in Iowa, Illinois, and Philadelphia.
Transcription
Calhoun county, Ia., will have no legal saloons for at least another year, as the saloon men have given up the fight for licenses.
Lafayette township, near Medina, O., has gone dry, leaving but two wet townships in the county, those of Liverpool and Wadsworth.
The Montreal saloonists have appointed a committee to wait upon the Quebec government and demand certain changes in the license laws in the interest of their trade—National Advocate—.
A crusade against the 90 saloons of Joliet, Ill., is now on. The point of attack is their violation of four laws, viz.: selling after 11 p.m., keeping open Sundays, selling to minors, and selling to drunkards. Mida’s Criterion, commenting on the fact, says: “If the saloons kept to the law, they would not be so vulnerable.”
Last year’s consumption of whiskey was the highest ever reached in the United Kingdom, according to the English temperance journals, being more than a gallon a head for every man, woman and child. Compared with 1878, there has been an increase in deaths from chronic alcoholism of 82 ½ per cent among men and 145 ½ per cent among women.
The Philadelphia Record calls attention to the fact that the iron workers who build the sky scrapers never go on duty when the least under the influence of liquor. If any one of them sees or hears of a derrick or scaffold man taking a drink, it is his duty to report at once, and the man is watched. When proof is found, the offender is instantly discharged.
Lafayette township, near Medina, O., has gone dry, leaving but two wet townships in the county, those of Liverpool and Wadsworth.
The Montreal saloonists have appointed a committee to wait upon the Quebec government and demand certain changes in the license laws in the interest of their trade—National Advocate—.
A crusade against the 90 saloons of Joliet, Ill., is now on. The point of attack is their violation of four laws, viz.: selling after 11 p.m., keeping open Sundays, selling to minors, and selling to drunkards. Mida’s Criterion, commenting on the fact, says: “If the saloons kept to the law, they would not be so vulnerable.”
Last year’s consumption of whiskey was the highest ever reached in the United Kingdom, according to the English temperance journals, being more than a gallon a head for every man, woman and child. Compared with 1878, there has been an increase in deaths from chronic alcoholism of 82 ½ per cent among men and 145 ½ per cent among women.
The Philadelphia Record calls attention to the fact that the iron workers who build the sky scrapers never go on duty when the least under the influence of liquor. If any one of them sees or hears of a derrick or scaffold man taking a drink, it is his duty to report at once, and the man is watched. When proof is found, the offender is instantly discharged.
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Lower Left Quadrant
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Elizabeth Lopez-Lopez
Citation
“Notes of Reform,” Black Virginia: The Richmond Planet, 1894-1909, accessed February 19, 2026, https://blackvirginia.richmond.edu/items/show/1346.