Prohibitory Liquor Laws-Testimony
Taken Before tne Massachusetts Legis
lature-
Abont twelve years ago tbo Stato
of Massachusetts adopted a prohibi
tory liquor law, but having never
been able to enforce it,.an agitation
was started last winter for a new and
more stringent enactment. A com
mittee of tbo Legislature took the
matter in hand, and are now making
a very thorough investigation of the
subject the bulk of the testimony be
ing adverse to the law. Wo copy
the following from the Boston Adver
tiser of the 9th instant:
The hearings on the question of a
license law were continued yesterday
forenoon and evening in the Repres
entatives’ Hall. Rev. Dr. Peabody,
of Harvard College, was the first
witness at the forenoon session of
the committee. lie stated that one
time lie had been in favor of prohibi
tory legislation, but that he now be
lieved it bad done little good and
much harm ; It had caused perjury,
hypocrisy, and a general adulteration
of liquors. He thought the law had
been almost without effect in reduc
ing the sale of liquors m-Cambridge.
