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St. Paul Daily Globe
Saint Paul, Ramsey County, Minnesota
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At a New York Temperance Union meeting on Jan. 3, lawyer Joseph Laird argued for maintaining 'dives' as outlets for social vices and lessons for reform, criticizing political parties' ties to liquor interests.
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A New York Lawyer's Reasoning Thereon.
New York, Jan. 4.—At the meeting of the Temperance union in the Grand opera house yesterday, Joseph Laird, a New York lawyer, advocated the fostering of dives in the city as an outlet for the social impurity of society. They would also, he maintained, be a standing lesson to the better elements of society, and would have a wholesome effect on them. So long, said Mr. Laird, as the Hoffman house remained and foot ball games brought college nabobs to the city to make its streets a public place of debauchery, then let these dives remain. These dives should be allowed to remain just so long as the Republican or Democratic party allowed the liquor interests to lead them by the nose. They will in time so sicken the people of this country that they will insist on reform.
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At the meeting of the Temperance union in the Grand opera house yesterday, Joseph Laird, a New York lawyer, advocated the fostering of dives in the city as an outlet for the social impurity of society. They would also be a standing lesson to the better elements of society, and would have a wholesome effect on them. So long as the Hoffman house remained and foot ball games brought college nabobs to the city to make its streets a public place of debauchery, then let these dives remain. These dives should be allowed to remain just so long as the Republican or Democratic party allowed the liquor interests to lead them by the nose. They will in time so sicken the people of this country that they will insist on reform.