Daily Iowa State Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1856-1859, 1857-06-11

DECLINE or TKNpERANCE.-Mr. Cough.
the orator, hes recently borne testimony
to the decline Of the temperance cause
ct the North. The sons Of temperance
have dwindled down from 200, 900 to
less than sc. 900. and the life has about
gone out Of this once powerful orgsui.
sstion. The "Tempersnce" papers
have sunk into mere "whippers 10" Of
faction. The amount raised for lectures
and for temperance tracts 10 one fifth Of
what it ives i've years ego. The Provi-
dencs Post, speaking Of this, and repell-
ing some false assumptions Of Neal Dow
before . Black Republican meeting
Gays:
Mr. Cough went further. He said
that more liquor was cold 10 Massaohu-
setts than he had ever before known, and
th it Wss the same 10 other states. lle,e,
sgsiu, he spoke the truth; and it 10 folly
for Nesl Dow to Say that bis statements
are set variance with the isots." We
can tessify for Rhode Island. Mr..
cough hss known the State about IT,
teen years. We have known it - losg /;
and We are sure that more liquor IL now
sold 10 the State than has been sold at
any former period within that time. We
know that before Neal D0W's machine
went into operstion-say six yesrs ego
there we're not one fifth 90 many grog
shops or one-6fth % many drunk ards 10
the State - there are to dsv. There
we're then seven towns where liquor was
not cold openly or slyly. There were
twelve or fifteen in which it we not sold
openly aud there were only I've 10
which censes were granted. Now it is
cold openly in every oos Of the thirty.
two towns and in Providence there are
at least three mes % many grog shops
- there were then. 10 the town Of Bur-
rillsiile, six yesrs ego, there wss not ,
single gr0g shop. We have bad the
Maine Law Eve yesrs, and now there are
twenty five grog shops in Burrill-
Vile.
What 10 true Of Rhode leland 10 near
" trse Of Connecticut, nearly true OF
Vermont. nearly true Of Maine and New
Hampshire, true to the very letter OF
b0V WOol0 VI U100O0Ouy00tt0s 0OU ttOOS "
. great extent, Of New York. Indeed,
it 10 true, 10 its main features, OF every
State where the Maine Law has been
tried. 10 every ono, the Law hiss proved
. failure Mr.. Dow knows better than
to cay that the law 10 enforced 10 Yer.
mont and New Hampshire. 10 the for
mer it does little or no good. In the
latter it 10 everywhere dead letter.
He knows better then to say that the
Msins Law carried Maine last Fall. The
Repaid cans carried the State, it 10
true but they did it BY ignoring the
Maine Law question, and ssking into
their service the only papers 10 the State
tho State Of Maine and Lrposiior-
that we're recognised - orgSos OF the
tumsellsrs. Nssrly every rumseller 70.
ted for their candidates, becsuss they
knew them to BE- unfrieodly towards the
stringent license Law which hsd been
enacted BY the Democrat, and which 10
now, owing to the fact that tho Ststs 10
10 the hsnds Of the Republicans. only
partially enforced. II NJ. Neal Dow's
Maine Law party sriumphsd last Fall on
the Maine Law issue, Why did it not re-
store the Maine Law Last winter, when
the Legislature Vac 10 session Why
have they got liosnss 10 Maine TO dayP
Answer ~ that, Mr.. bowl