Polynesian. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu], Hawaii) 1844-1864, 1854-04-08
Maine Liquor Law at the south.

Nearly every State between the Susauehanna and the
Rio del Norte is agitated with the preliminary
throes of imminent and absorbing agitation for the
complete prohibition of the Liquor Traffic.
In Maryland, the unexpected and decisive trinmph of
the Prohbitioniss in the election of their entire legis
ative ticket in Baltimore city last October has probably
settled the main question, leaving to the Legislature
about to assemble the choice of passing the required
o-hand, throwing the question into tire next election
when Prohibition tickets will be in nearly all the
counties, and glorious triumph for sobriefy achieved
In the District of Columbia, is well known the
people Of Washington city voted directly last
the question of prohibition, and full vote decided
by majority of about two to to ask Congress to
invite their Municipal Authorities with power pro-
hi6It the traffic in intoxicating beverages.
In Virginia, the agitation for Liquor Law like that
of Maine is now so strong that The Richmond Ercn,
Rer, which is bitterly hostile thereto trying hard to
arouse Virginia prejudice against the temperance ad
vocates, stgmatzing them Yankees, interopers,
meddlers with what is of their business &C.. &c
Yet the work will 90
In Kentucky and Tennessee, the first blow struck
at the election last August by by the enemies of Pro-
hbition, who defeated Whig candidates for Con-
gress in Wing districts, ard two Democrats in Demo-
cratic districts because they Sons of Temperance
and thus presumptyely Irohbitionists, though they
had made for Prohibition and said nothing on
the subject Several stump candidates for the Lesla-
ture in Kentucky came out for Prohibition but were
nearly all crushed between the upper and neither mill
stones of Party but in the important county of shelby,
Tennessee, (ncuding the city Of Memphis the friends
of Prohibition took the wise and Of que-
tioning all the candidates and adopting those who
answered fayorably; and the result their signal
triumph, showing how the work to be done in other
counties at the next opportunity.
Missouri is now awaking Temperance agitation, and
will have Of it from this time to next August,
when new House ahd part of Senate arc to be
chosen; the Political fight being triangular that the
friends of Prohibition will enjoy such advantages as
they improved in State at the recent election
We trust they will be successful were.
In Texas, large and influential Temperance Con-
vention held at Austin, the capital simultaneously
with the meeting of the Legislature, by which the qus-
ton Of Prohibition brought directly and pointedy
before the Peoples Representatives. The Liquor m
terest is evidently alarmed at the prospect The md
a,oa Bulletin, for instance, is arguing that law OF
prohibition should not be passed because 1t cannot ne
enforced which is in substance saying that the majority
shall make such laws they deem essential to the
public well-being, because the minority will not OBEY
them If that is valid reason, see no solid ground
whereon to justify any penal legislation whatever
On the whole, the cry of hapless wives, mothers and
children for protection against the immeasurabe wrongs
and woes which they have been long subjected Dy
the Liquor Traffic begins to be heard and needed from
one end of the Union TO the other. CALIFORNIA Will
not be the last State to and enforce Prohibition
for she has suffered deeply from Intemperance and the
slowest communities to this subject are those
that have suffered and suffering least from the fangs
of the Alcoholic Demon Give us ten years more OF
steady resolute Temperance effort, with liberal and
unfailng dissemination of Temperance documents, and
the last state in the Union will have enacted Prohbi-
tion.-N. Y Tribune.