New-York tribune., 1869-04-10
wHAr TIE EXCISE Law Has DONE.

"The proof of the pudding is in the eating
saws the well worn adage, and 1t may he equally well
said that the proof of the good bad effects OF law is
contained its results To those who cavil at the exist
ence OF the Metropolitan Excise Law, well as to those
who appreciate its beneficial results the following facts
aud figures will be interesting 1t is generally conceded
that to make the laws efficient it is essential that tue
power Of arresting without magistrates warrant
power of revoking licenses and power to close hquOf
stores on Sundays aud at hour OF the night should
he delegated TO intrused with its execution The
following statements show what the law has accom-
plished: . .....t ..
l. 1t has reduced the number OF liquor shops, Before
t law was passed there were 9270 places whore liquor
was sold in New York aud brooklyn At the end OF 1867
there 676l; and NJ the end O lobo SI rue siieh
increase from 1867 1865. shows that the allegation That
the dealers cannot afford to pay the preSet rae % % 1i
licenses untrue Prior TO the law there were nut 14
places IN NeW-York which had license. W the
7,3m licensed places at the emu oI iSoo' o''Eo To-
spite Of the dmnution. the proportion OF hqnor stores
to population is the basis of the census OF 1862 one
ONE TO eyery 100 in Brooklyn; or assuming wYork
70 have 600 inhabtants and BROOKLYN S160oo t s
Brooklyn The proportion OF liquor stores IN pom Cites
no other class of business when Is carried on ~
so many different places as the hqlof business, Ihe
S'eertiv nStne MS wines and liquors only stores
which are for that business exclusively OF enemy
while II omts from this class ana essses ~ 'ITiu %
selves. hotels groceries, merchahts places, Iu sOni n
Others which liquors are also sold III gives ABOUT 25N
and 0uOr Stores nut III also gives Low
nearly all of whom liquors are sold and l65 hotels ~
gives about 675 merchants, portion OF whom also sen
ngnoT III we add together the wine and liquor stores
he ocers and the hotels have aggregate of 1866
at which hduor is reported by the Directory 20 be
sod The largest number Of places devoted to any
other business given by the Directory, Is
boot and shoe stores about l,lOG butchers stores,
about SOO tailOrS stores, about COO lawyers aDOnt I0
brokers' about 1000. These numbers are but approx
mate and so far as relates TO liquor stores about 1000 be
low the real number but they show that the number OF
places at which liquor is sold is greatly IN excess OI the
humber Of places at which any other business Is car
ried on. -,
The Excise law has given this city and Brooklyn
nuet SUNDAYS aud has largely reduced the number OF
arrests on Sunday. We able To make Iaf cOlnPr
isOn by contrasting the records OF arrests Tor SUNDAY
a1d Tnesdavs Thus record kept for period OF eigh
sundays and $3.50 for the same cause ON the IOlOWl
Tnesdsys OF week. the 135 excess on Sundays ind
rating, doubtless, tho number that wan
uf attenuation ON the Sabbath leaves the eaSie
victims OF intempeTate habits. In the first 10 months
during which the present Excise law In force Goa
arrests were made the Tuesdays against only asia
the SUNDAYS of the weeks; and this 3507
Tuesday over Sunday arrests according to the rat
shown for the prior eight months fell considerably shor
OF the number Of of disorder OF which the Sab
bath had been relieved Ii should be remarked tina
some portion OF the Sunday arrests under the presen
Excise law have been OF persons who have gone out o
the district aud drank much liquor that they fell int
the hands OF the police on their return
The following table shows in detail the arrests for In
toxIcatIon Sundays and Tuesdays for the year
preceding the LIST OF November last aud TO this detailed
10 added the uch for the
period from Jan. j, 1867, 10 Nov. l, 1867: