Delaware tribune. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1867-1877, 1870-06-09

Charles X. Landis, the founder Of this place,
is a sagacious anti-dram shop man, and in the
beginning he laid his plans to build up the place
as a temperance town. where tho scourge Of the
rum traffic should be unknown. At an early day
in the history Of the town, Mr.. Landis was sent
to the Legislature, and he procured bill grant
ing to yineland the special privilege, among, the
Jersey towns, of deciding for themselves by a
popular vote each year whether TREY would have
liquor selling licensed, or utterly prohibited
The question comes up regularly every year, and
it has uniformly been decided by great unanimity
that dram-shops should not exist in the place;
This spring, out of population of 12,00O, but
one vote was cast for license. The Democrats,
as we'll as the Republicans there, go for prohibi-
ton. Vineland is ahead of all other places Of its
size in the land on temperance, and may well be
classed as the banner town of the United States
on prohibition
An audacions attempt was made some two
years ago to inaugurate the reign of whskey on
small scale. A scalawag came into the place
from Philadelphia or New York and brought his
liquors with him, hired cellar. and attempted
to run the business of making lunatics and
drunkards. The citizens took the alarm, and
public meeting was at once called to decide what
should be done with this nuisance.
Mr.. Landis made the opening address, lie ap-
pealed to his fellow citizens to know ii they were
willing to give up their character and vantage
| ground as an ultra temperance town and sink to
| the level of other Jersey communities in this
| matter-to give up their low taxes, have the
nuDlc morals ueIlOrdllLtu, 10 lHNt IL purity
| created, and paupers and other criminals manu-
factured and turnedout uponthe people tosupport
/ and take care of. These views were unanimously
endorsed by the meeting and committee was
sent from the hall to the cellar to inform the man
| that he must not sell, or further attempt
to sell, intoxicating liquors in Vineland !;
that it was against the law, and an
| outrage upon the moral sense OF the people.
| He refused to hear, and claimed that he had a
right to sell, as he had a license from the Uni
u,,tl, tiaa ttnn al
adjourned to the dram-shop, and marched e,,
| ,ntsse to tho spot, blockading the street and
sidewalk with their numerous presence. A com
mittee was sent into this breathing hole of pan
demonium, to inform the keeper that the citizens
of Vineland had arrived at his door, and unless
he was ready to abate the nuisance they shoult
proceed Immediately to do up this work for him
lie concluded that discretion was the better par
OF valor, and promised to remove from the place
the next day. This was the first and last OpeI
attempt to establish dram-shop in vineland
The unaniniity of the people on this matter is re
| markable.
1t is not strange that some of the peopl
should see and comprehend the fact tina
the liquor traffic il curse, scourge q
any community; but that all should see am
understand that the dram-shop will increase til
taxes, injure business, open tho iloodgates o
= crime and pauperism, and repel the best class O
settlers, is marvel indeed. The results of pre-
hibition in vineland are, taxes are only $40 o
) $1,000 one policeman looks after matters pei
tanning to the public peace and takes care OF til
poor, and all for salary of $50 per year; all
: he has but little public duty to attend to-crim
is hardly known, and the whole expense OF aid
8 ing the poor was but about $500 for the las
Z year Would it not be we'll for the city father
in Boston, and other cities and large towns
= Massachusetts, who fear that the suppression {
= the liquor traffic would injure business and dan
o age the public good, to send delegation Of MOI
y tippling officials, Gf such may be found,
j. Vineand, to investigate the workings Of well ei
forced prohibition, on taxation in particular, an
the public good in general. Perhaps such a
& investigation might shed some light on the'
1 dark matters. = Wdtchmdn and Retiect0r.