The Union and journal. [volume] (Biddeford, Me.) 1858-1882, 1869-01-29
Results Of Liquor Probation.
ITrom The New Yak Trbsns.l

. .I IYrom The New Yuk rr.bsnsl d..
r The thriving young community known as
yipelan.l in West Jersey Was founded on tive
fnndauuental principles That no land should
be sold except In small tracts 20 actual settlers,
un,ler stipulatous which obligc the purchasers
20 enter at once opon iis Improvement; That
there shall be no grog shops, lagar-becr saloon,
or other place licencci or permitted To sell al
coholc liquors, unless the people, mt q regular
election, shall otherwise decrce las they never
do nor Willy The settlement Is now some l.
years oil, aud has about ten thousand inhabi-
ants--all Of them, but somc half dozen hmi-
lie. emigrants In moderac circumstances, m
c,uding widows with young children, and the
usual proportion ofdisablel or infrm persons.
Aside from the founder, Mr.. e, X. Lands, We
believe no one II them could be considered rich,
and no, twenty woull be termed "f6re handed y
I'm New Hngland.--AIost Of them live by tillng
the soil, which Is q part of tho well known"Jer-
ssy barrens," formerly deyotei 10 the prviuc-
ton OF charcoal, and covered, from time
immrtnorisi, with = thin growth mainly
of stantcd pitch pines and scrub oaks.
Naturally. many were utterly without eIPe-
rience In agriculture, and not well adapted 10
the new career on which they entered late IN
life. Surely, 70 there should be paurerism any
where, We might rsasonably expect u TO he
developed among the ponesrs Of 'ineiand, many
IL whom brought no more means than sathsei
10 ray for their land, and hal to clear, build,
fertilife. and plant, ftou' The proceeis OF tneir
daily labor. Yet the Ov~rssr OF the Poor, (Mr'
4. q. Curtis) reports ~ follows: .l
Though we have population OF iV,Wv
people, for the period ofsix months no settler OF
citizen Of vincland has rcquirrd relief at my
hands Is 0yersser " ihs Poor. Within ~
days. there has been one case among what We
call the floating population, At an expense o.
-. .'
During tho entire year, there has only been
one inlie,meut, and that a triaing case Of as
saul, and battery among cur eolOrcd P0Paia-
ton.
So few are the fires in vinelsnd that we have
no need Of Fire Department. Thsrc has only
be,n one house burnt down in year and two
slight fires, which were son put cut
We practically have no debt, anil our taxes
are only one per cent on the valuation.
The Police expenses u vineiand amount to
go per year, the sum paid to me; and our
poor expenSs mere tribe. .....-.- ....
ascribe thisrsmarkablc state OF things, -
nearly approaching the golden age, TO the in
dastry d our people and the absence Of King
Let me give you in contrast to this, the state
OF things in the town trOm which came, I'm
New England. The pcpuistiOn of the town was
$1,000 Little los than that Of vinelsnd. II
maintained forty liquor shops. These kept busy
= police Judge. city marshal, assistant marshal
four nirht Waterman, six policemen. fires
,rre alrnoSs continual. rhst srnsn phce main
tainsi paid Ere department. 81 far companies.
Of 40 men each, st an expense, o. s3,OoO per
annum. Ibclcngcd to this department for six
years, and the fires averaged about one every
two wetks, and mcstiy ipcsdiary. The sup
port Of the poor cost s2.Joo per annnm. Ihe
y, dsss q tho township was Sia0,000. The con-
dition Of things in this New England town IS As
favourable In that country as that Of many 9TH
or places where liqac~ b sOh.''lod MI
We challenge ihose journals which Uphold
LIQUOR LLenocs and the Liquor traffic TO ~
these fAets before their readers and then argue
them down II they can. le