CITIZENS OF HANCOCK, MD. PROPOSE PUBLIC WHIPPINGS FOR TOWN DRUNKARDS
Hagerstown, Maryland (JFK+50) On April 27, 1926, The Evening Star reports that the town council of Hancock, Maryland will consider at its next meeting a request that "sobriety be beaten into the town's drunkards...at a public whipping post."
Concerned citizens will point out violators of liquor laws are easily able to pay their fines and then "their habits of intemperance recur."
Their thinking is that "a few stinging lashes with a cat-o-nine tails" will make drunkenness unpopular.
SOURCE
"Town Would Beat Sobriety Into Rum Users With Lash," The Evening Star, Washington, D.C., April 27, 1926, Chronicling America, Library of Congress, www.loc.gov/
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