New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-01-25
pESu,TS or LIoUOR PROHIBITION


The thriving young community known as
Vineland in West Jersey was founded on two
fundamental principles: 1. That no land should
be sold except in small tracts to actual set
tiers. under stipulations which oblige the
purchasers to enter at once upon Its improve
ment 2. That there shall be no grog-shop,
lager-beer saloon, or other place Licensed OF
permitted to sell Alcoholic Liquors. unless the
people, at a regular election, ishall other
wise decree Gas they never do nor
Will. The settlement is now some
twelve wears old, and has about ten
thousand inhabitants-all Of them, but some
half dozen families, immigrants in moderate
circumstances, including widows with young
children, and the usual proportion OF disabled
or infrm persons. Aside from the founder, Mr..
C. X. Landis we believe no one of them could
be considered rich, and not twenty would be
termed "forehanded" in New-Engand. Most
of them live by tilling the soil, which is a part
of the well known Jersey barrens," formerly
devoted to the production of charcoal,
and covered, from time immemOrial, with
a thin growth mainly of stunted pitch
pines and scrub oaks. Naturally, many were
utterly without experience in agriculture, and
not we'll adapted to the new career on which
they entered late in life. Surely, if there
should be pauperism anywhere, we might rea-
sonably expect it to be developed among the
pioneers of Vineand, many of whom brought
no more means than suficed to pay for their
land and had to clear, build, fertilize, and
plant, from the proceeds of their daily labor.
Yet the Overseer of the Poor (Nr. I. I. Cortis)
reports as follows:
although we have population of 10000 people, for the
period Of six months settler or citizen OF Nheann hs
required relief at my hands Overseer OF the Poor
Within days. there has only been one case among What
call the floating population at the expense Oh -,
During the entire year, there mas only Deeh one IN
dctment and that trng case of assault and battery
among our cOlOred population.
$50 few are the fires in Yineland that have need
OF a Fire Department There has only been one house
burnt down in year, and two slight nres Whch were
soon put out ...o ot,
one per cent on the valuation.
The Police expenses Of Vineland amount to sI5 per
year. paid ito and our poor expenses mere
ascribe tins remarkable state Of things so nearly
approaching the golden TO the industry VI our people
and the absence OF King Alcohol. ,.,,,
Let me give you IN contrast to this the state OF things
population Of the 9OOa little less than that OF
Vneland. 1t maintained forty liquor shops Ilese keps
busy police Judge city marshal assistant maTshai tOur
night watchneu six policemen. Fires were almost con-
tinual That small place maintained para nre uepaI
Of four companies OF 40 men each at an ot
years and the fires averaged about one every TWO week
and mostly incendiary The support OF the poor Co.'S
$4,000 per anDum. The debt OF the township was NAOOo
The condition Of things in this England town Is as
favorable in that country that OF many otner places
where liquor is sold -
We challenge those journals which uphold
Liquor Licenses and the Liquor Traffic to set
these facts before their readers and then argue
them down if they can.