Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1855-02-24
[ From the Springfield Republican. /
FnE pROHIBaTORY LIQUOR law.

NV 'n"St oe'etiniheu opponents OF pfohib-
tory liquor law are obliged 10 admir-, that when
ully and impsftially enforced lis influence Is in
the highest degree salulsfy. Very many who
donot ADM, is intrinsic ptoprio,y, are noiwiih-
s'sndng anxious 10 give |, thorough trial, as the
only practical measure yet proposed that seems
likely to accomplish much against the fearful
evils Of incorporates.
In Connecticut facts show that even the par.
tal snfncenent Of the law has wonderfully re.
dneed the amount Of pauperism and CHINE, and
that too in very brief period. The good
results Of the law sppear at once, and can DO
directly traced, 80 that there lie no longer any
dispute as TO the fact that in closing liquor
shop you dry up the fountain Of numerous do
mestc and social evils.
q The inmates If the almshouse al New London
c., averaged SO in 1854; this year the largest
number has been 49, and there arc now but 0,
mast Of whom are old inmates. This is re-
markable decrease OF pauperism, at this hard
time too, when 80 many have been thrown out
uf employment. In Norwich the average num-
Der in the almshouse has diminished three-fnurths
since the liquor law came into opcraiion.-
These are facts ftr tax payers 10 think Of.
In the New Londun Jail there were bus three
prisoners the first Of this month one for selling
liquor, one e,r drunkenness and one for horse
stealing, ird only iwo-fi,hs as many have been
committed during the pas, six months as for the
came period Of last year. Tho jaier, who makes
shis statement, adds -
al assure you that the Maine law works won
ders In New London, and is getting more popu-
lar There is less Of misery and wretchedness
our streets are more quiet, the counienances Of
a certain class are very much improved. and il
Is 30 quiet here evenings that we can truly say
we sit under our own vine, and there is no one
10 make US afraid"
Commitments to the Norwich Jail have dmin.
ished 10 about the same proportion
Rev P. Brockctt, chaplain of the Connectieu,
state prison, reports decrease Of abont one
fourth in the number Of prisoners since the new
law went into effect. and remarks
''Most OF those who we're received before the
liquor law went into operation, acknowledge that
their crimes were committed while they were in
q ofsiaie intnxication. Those tina, have come for
the last two months appear generally, so far as
] can learn, not to have been Incorporate men,
hut hank robbers, pickpockets, &c, on whom
the hard times have had an influence In gen.
eral, they speak highly oil the Maine Law, and
hope it will continue 81 that they need not be |
tempted when they go away from here"
10 II strange. with such facts as these before 1
them, that the people Of Conuectcu, view the /
prohibitory law with increasing favori
An intelligent blacksmith in Wilimanic says
"Before the first Of August, men frequently
came to my shop, mot exactly drunk, but they
sbounded in silly. foolish talk some habituslly
came in the afternoon, and were moi sober when
they went hons. A man who brings charcoal,
used TO go home intoxicated, and sometimes turn
his wife and children ont of doors. Things are
very different now. Men get their work done,
behave like men and go home sober the char
coal man returns in good season his wife and
children are glad to see him, and have no fears
Of being turned into the street They 20 in
for the Maine Law"
OF course they do; the women all 90 for H.
One Connecticut woman, whose husband had
been reclaimed from drunkenness through the
restraints of the Maine law, said to her physi-
clan 49,
al have been married twenty years, but /,
seems as If my husband and had JUS, lived to-
gether. Talk about hard times never had 1
such easy times as now. Tea, sugar, -four in |
abundance, two pigs in the barrel, and twenty
five dollars due my husband when he has finis-
bed job of work. Formerly when he had
huchered his pork, he conld do nothing but drink |
and carouse the remainder Of the day. This year
he got up his team and broush, hume load of
wood 80
Has 1t not occurred to everybody while read
ing the accounts Of poverty and misery in the |
cities, this winter, how large portion Of ii |
would be entirely removed, and its place sup |
piled by domestic thrift and comfort. if the nu.
merous temptations 10 intemperance were but |
swept out Of existancel What benefcen,
change is made in the whole aspect of New
York merely by the suppression of the public |
sale Of liquors one day 10 the week. let It's |
thousands Of foul dram-shops be closed every day
in the week, and how wonderful would be the |
transformation Does anybody suppose that
there would then be thousands Of gauni and shiv-
ering wreiches thronging the soup houses and |
eking out miserable existence upon public
eharityi Away with nice theories about the |
right Of a man TO make beast Of himself!-
We arc taxed by panperism, afflicted with crime,
and the very air is polluted with putrid and
fostering social corruption, admitted on all hands
aspiring from The liquor traffic, and if the com
mnnity has any right of selfpro,ecton at all, it
has right to protect itself from evils so pal
paSle and insuherable as these. If Neal Dow's
plan Of relief is not the best, produce better.
But until that is proposed, let US have the rem
sdy which has certainly proved effecinal wher-
4 h.a kao al 4 4 IN
A sLEICHING STORY.
10 these times Of fine sleiRhing, a western
paper advises the young men to remember the
girls while the sleighing lasts, and says tina,