Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1869-04-28

The thriving young community known
rs Nineland, in West Jersey, was found-
ed on two fundame ntal principles: l.
That no land should be sold except in
small tracts to actual settlers, under slip
ulations which oblige the purchasers to
enter at once upon its Improvement
2 There shall be no grog-shops, lager
beer saloons, or other place licensed or
permitted to sell alcoholic liquors, unless
the people, at regular election. shall
otherwise decree (as they never do nor
Will
The settle is now some seven years old
and has about l2,000-alI OF them but
some ha dozen families, immigrants
in indicate circumstances, Including wild
ews with young chi dren, and the usual
proportion Of disabled or lnfirm persons
Aside from the founder, Z. K I.an3is,
we believe no one of them could be con-
sIderedrich, and not twenty would be
| termed ''forehanded" in New England =
Most of them live by tilling the soil, which
is a part of the well-known jersey Bar
rens, formerly devoted to the production
OF charcoal, and covered, from time i'm
memorial. with thin growth mainly OF
stnnted pitch pines and scrub oaks.
Naturally, many were utterly without
experience in agriculture, and not well
| adapted TO the new career on which they
Suffered late in life. Surely if there
should be pauperism anywhere, we mishi
reasonably xpect it to be developed
among the pioneers of Nineland. many
of whom brought no more means than
sufhced to pay Tor their land, and had
to clear, bui d, fertilize and plant, from
I Il 1t 4
the Overseer of the Poor, Mr.. L. L. Cor
tbs, reports as follows
Though we have population of 10000
peop.e, for the period of six months no
settler Oh citizen of Vineland has required
relief at my hands as Overseer of the Poor.
Within serenity days there has only been
one case among what We call the floating
population, at the expense of four dollras.
During the entire year there has only
been one Indictment, and that a trifiing
ease of assault aud battery among our coll
orea population. So few are the fires in
Eineland that we have no need of fire de-
partmeut There has only been one house
burnt down in year, and two slight fires,
which were soon put out.
We practically have no debt, and our
taxes arc only one per cent, on the valua-
tion.
Ihe ponce expense OF lneiahd amount
to So per year-the sum paid to me; and
our poor expenses are mere trifie. l as
cribe this remarkable state of things, so
near approaching to the golden age, to the
industry of our people and the absence OF
King Alcohol.
Let me give you, in contrast to this, the
state of things III the town from which
came, in New England; The population
or the town was nine thousand and FIVE hun
dred i a little less than that of Vineland.
1t maintained forty liquor shops These
kept busy police judge, city marshal, as
sistant marshal, four night watchmen and
six policemen. Fires were almost contin-
nal. That small place maintained paid
fire department. of four companies, each
company having forty men, at an expense
of 50. 600 per annum. | belonged to this
department for six years, and the fires av-
eraged about one every two weeks, and
mostly iueendiary. The support of the poor
cost 81, 800 per snnum. The debt of the
township was SI20 600. The condition of
things in this New England town is as ia
vorable in that country that of many
other places where liquor is sold.
We challenge those journals which mp
hold liquor licenses and the liquor traffic
to set these facts before their readers,
and then argue then down If they can.