A Brief History of Winthrop From 1764 to October 1855
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Dram drinking in stores was becoming an appalling evil. At the meeting of the Society March 25, 1816, the Standing Committee were instructed to take such meas- 7* 146 HISTORY OF WINTHROP. ures as their discretion might dictate, to prevent the evils resulting from the present mode of retailing spirituous liquors at the stores. In September the society instruct- ed their committee to circulate the Address of President Appleton, D. D. , delivered before the Massachusetts Society for suppressing in...temperance, particularly among the members of this society ; and to take such other measures as they shall deem expedient to awaken the public mind to the importance of reform in regard to the manner of retailing spirituous liquors. At the meeting in October, the use of sj)irituous liquors was discussed and after the reading of a very interesting circular addressed by the committee of the Bedford Society for the suppres- sion of vice, to the venders of spirituous liquors, it was Resolved, that this society view the use of spirit- uous liquors, except as a medicine, or in some rare cases, as injurious, and that in the present state of things, civility does not require and expediency does not permit their being used as a part of hospitable entertainment in social visits.
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