The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1873-07-17
A STRONG PLEA FOR PRO
BIBITION.

IN this county and Ireland, has been
looking into the matter of prohibi-
ton, and thus presents his views:
How to free Ireland, how to amel-
iorate her condition. have long been
the desire of the bulk of her sons.
Agreeing with your article on '.the
Home Rule movement" [ do not
think any other step than that of
''moral suasionp is at present ,jxdic
So~s. But that does not hinder
me from holding that physical sua-
siou," exercised toward John Bull, :"
might be far more efiective.
Now, on just the same grounds, l
am a thorough believer in "moral
suasion'' for the inebriate. but Of
illegal suasion' for the man who
makes theHinebriates, and for the
drink which turns the image of God
into poor, deluded sot.
You say that wherever the ex-
pertinent has been tried of making
men temperate by legal enactment,
it results in aggravating the evil to
be remedied." If you mean by this
that wherever the licensed sale Of
intoxicating beverages has been pro-
hibited there drunkenness has in
creased, then the facts within my
personal knowledge prove the oppo-
site.
There never was a glass of intoxi-
eating liquor sold publicly in the
manufacturing town of Bessbrook.
County Arn,ag', three short miles
from Newry, Ireland. There never
was liquor saloon there; there
never was a policeman in the town;
never pawn-ofice there; never a
pauper from it; never case of crime
perpetrated in it. There are 1000
people living there in peace, CON-
fort and happiness. The county
town of Cayan is about the same
size. It has about 40 liquor stores,
near as many police, and poverty,
pauperism, crime and wretchedness
as the results of intemperance. At
Bessbrook the men do not even go
the short distance to Newry to ''liq-
uor up" [ appeal to your Judge
ment and good sense if this is not
proof positive from an Irish town
that prohibition of the licensed sale
of liquor there prevents sintemper-
ance? I refer your intelligent read
er to Mr.. A. NJ. Sullivan, of the
Nation, Dublin, for confederation of
these facts, known to him as they
are to me.
Again, district Of 50 IL square
miles in the County Tyrone, Ire
land, has been over twelve years
entirely cleared of saloons. The re-
suits are these: The eight policemen
were removed from the place; their
barrack made a decent barn; the
pauperlsm reduced; the poor rate de-
creased from Is. Cd. to Sd. on the
FL valuation, annually; crime, NIL;
drunkenness wholly unknown.
ThersSis population of 10000 and
odd in that district. These facts
are know to almost every man in
Ireland, England and Scotland, and
our people ought to know them in
America.
Still further, the Most. Rev. the
Archbishop of Cashel, DR.. Leahy;
the Rt. Rev., the Bishop Of Ferns,
DIR. Furlong; the Rt. Rev. the Bish-
op of Fillmore, DIR. Conaty, have
for years prohibited the sale of aico-
holic liquors by the Catholics in
their large diocese, on Sundays.
The results have as been already de-
scribed, intemperance reduced, pau
perism decreased, crime lessened.
police removed, bridewells (prisons)
in the diocese of Cashel closed up,
taxes brought down, and the whole
Of society benefited.
Now these facts [ can prove be-
You'd cavil. as the results of prohibi-
ton in Ireland.
All that l have stated regarding
Bessbrook, county Armag h, applies
equally to Slatair, near Bradford,
Yorkshire. 1t was built by Sir Tt
tus Salt, around his factories, and
the never allowed a licensed house in
Al