Hannibal journal. (Hannibal, Mo.) 1853-1853, 1853-09-07


duced 10 per cent. Moat Of these are Irish
Dwellings, Of the lower clsas~Awhich cannot be
searched without express proof Of sals--WhsFs
liquor is kept in very small quantities.
Quantity Of liquor seized and condemned,
about 1000 gallons, and still larger amount
roshipped 10 Boston.
The state Of the streets and city, according to
the City Marsha's statement, l. "impreVed
10 per cent" as compared with the previous
quarter.
As concerns pauperism, an oversesF Of the
poor says: 1.-THE applications for aid, for the
last three months, have not been half 20 hume.
rous as the three preceding months. We I'm.
derstand that the extra help during haying on
the City Farm is all hired Il has heretofore
been performed by persons committed 10 the
House of Correction for drunkenness, Of whom
there has never been deficiency. Tie H0usS
of Correction is notO empty"
The operation of the law will be to add some
400 or $500 to the amount Of the poll taxes Of
this city. In other words, it creates body Of
some hundreds of new citizens, in place Of an
equal number Of degraded and burdensome pau
pers, or of men who FOR charity'S sake were
spared the tax. I"
[Do you hear that9-you who tell u, that to-
suppress the liquor traffic will drive away
trade, impOverish our treasury, and exclude
population
Outdoor expenses Of the Pauper Establish.
ment:
Quarter ending June 30, 1850, 60 supported,
$5o6 Is
DO. Sept. 80, 1850, 40 do. 4O6 43
Do. June 80, 1881, AZ do. 40 80
Do. Sept. 30, 1851, % do. 2lS 08
Showing reduction of more than fifty per cent.
for the last quarter, against twenty per cent.
last year.
Expenses Of Aims House, resulting from in.
temperance, in 1851:
Quarter ending June 80, $l6l So
Do. Sept. 80, 8 OF
Showing reduction of 1856 81, or ninety.
seven per cent.
Cost Of support OF common drunkards in the
House of Correction, for PenObscot county, in
1851:
Quarter ending June 30, $l47 SO
Do. Sept. 30, 40 81
Showing reduction of $lO7 IA, or 70 l-2 per
cent.
We have the Marshal's testimony that "csn-
siderable improvement" is manifest in the con.
dition of the Incorporate classes, and that the
comforts of many families have been greatly
augmented.
There are attached to the above report some
arguments showing the comparative advantages
Of the Maine Liquor Law. These omit, be-
cause am not trying 10 show that the Maine
Law is better than any other kind of liquor law,
but merely that PrOhibitOry laws diminish, in.
stead of increasing the evils attendant upon the
liquor traffic.
We are said to be leagued with the abolition.
lists. Last Wednesday an abolition convention
assembled at Syracuse, New York, at which
John Jay, John P. Hale, Senator Chase and
Garrett Smith figured prominently. An attempt
was made to engraft the Maine Liquor Law
among their resolutions, but they voted the pro.
position down. The suppression of the liquor
traffic is principle by itself, which has never
been, and probably will not be, engrafted into
the platform of any party, wing, or democratic,
or abolition, or frSesoil, until it becomes very
popular, as it is now in Ohio, where both whiR
and democratic candidates find it necessary to
convince the people that they are sound Maine
Law men.
1t is said by some that the clause in our char.