The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1871-12-26

selves become Prohibitonists. Inq quiret
of if anything could be done in that CITY
of Sailors to diminish the social evil, tht
Mayor cmphatically answered, "Yes; ban
ishing liquor greatly lessons the crime by
removing tho cause 1t is the stimulan,
of strong drink, and the associations a
round low groggerics, that furnish chici
Indictments TO frequent bawdy houses. II
The City Marshall Of Now Bedford
expressed to mo substantially tho same
opinions as have just been recorded. He
spoke Of "many whom he had known to
be addicted to drink, and some even to-
pers, who were reclaimed and reformed
by Legal Prohibition" lie also added
"tho breaking up Of liquor-seling has
greatly and undeniably lessened the so
cial ovil."
Captain Benjamin Cushmau, veteran
ship-naster, who has visited most of the
cities of the world, said to me, THE en-
tire safety of person and property, the
public order and social decencies here in
New Bedford, are greater aud more than
III uuJ OtutT tOWn ever SAW.
Records of the County Jail and House
Of Correction show that New Bedford,
with one-fifth the population of Bristol
county, furnishes onc-twentieth the GRIM
inals. That is, the average monthly COM
mitments Of the whole county Of 103, 900
being from ~ to 80. Fall River, a neigh
boring city of -, 1000, furnishes tpenty !;
Taunton, also near, but smaller, furnish
es Seren criminals and New Beford tuo.
The City Missionary, Mr.. Dennison,
writing to friend under date of July 5,
1870, says:
"The half cannot be told of good re-
sulting from the execution of the Prohib.
itory Law in New Bedford, not only in
the vast destitution itremoves (for have
not known for the past seventeen years
so little suffering in the Winter season,
arising from intemperance, as during the
past Winter, but also in the peace and
happiness it has brought to families !
have frequently visited, affording me an
opportunity noticing the blessed change
And now from these facts, which could
be extended almost indefinitely, is it not
high time that the people say, what has
been done in this eastern city must be
doue in New York 1t is not ten years
since New Bedford was publicly stigma
tizod as lawlcss and degraded place.
Whiskey made it SO. Now it is pro-
nounced By eminent men who visit there,
"thc best governed city in the world"
Why cannot we have this reform in New
York ? y few determined, self-denying
men, under God, did the work there. We
surely do not lack some such in our many
cities.
Is it not blasting, withering shame
that million Of moral and Christian pco-
pie in this great State should stand with
folded arms, and see few thousand IL
quor dealers fill the ials and prisons with
crime, endapger the lives and characters
of our children, send untold anguish into
10000 families, double and treble our
taxcs,-that they may get rich? Ifpoli.
ticians have not yet found out that ques-
tons connected with the Temperance Re
form transcend immca,urably in import
anco all party issues, they do not know
enough TO be voted for. fla true man
hood and the fear Of God do not depart
from the great middle classes Of our State,
surely the consuming evils Of The liquor
traffic, which now threaten tho very lif.
Of the Republic will not be quietly en-.
durcd.