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y public arroat, or by inf1ictlng physical penal

by public arroat, or by inaictlne physical pensl-
! tios.
| At tho TINA pf tho passage Of hlr. Gladstone'a
bill tho Liberal party waH in tho usoondoucy. It
| was tho party Of progress. 1t WAS In tho worry
! hciBht Of ita powor, and could count a hundred
| majority In Parliament. 1t swept al tho elco-
tiots. oxcoptin tow Of tho strong Tory dstricts.
whore tic powor OF tito nobility md 1andhofdorB
| was complete over tho tonnntry. It gayo to
England the voto by ballot. It gave hor tho
| froo-scool Byston. It gave her law roform.
It nlatlo an inmonBo reduction In taxation. Not
withdrawing tho blessings 1t Ind and was con-
| fosring upon England, from tho worry day OF tho
/ passaga Of this bill Its majority began to melt
away and tts power to waue. IA tho mombors Of
Parliament aro elected for acvon ycars, thero was
| no general election, but whoncver vacancy oo-
| ourrod, either by death or from any cause,
for somo mysterious reason It was found
that tho Tories filled four out Of five Of
tho vacancies IN districts carried previously by
tho Liberals by overwhelming msjoritios. lii
1873 tho Liberal pntty lost 25 or 90 seats. Tho
majority continued to disappear. The strongest
Liboyal boroughs contlnuodt torettlrn full-bloodod
Toros. AB 4 fnal resort. Gladstone dissolved
Parliament, which ho feared to meot, last spring,
and vent beforo tho people with proposition to
roduco taxation S27, 1000, ,000.-a measure which
| ho supposed would meet with universal favor.
The campaign WAS 0 very abort and exciting ono.
lasting but ayo or ai1 weeks. and ut its close II
4.,t>1fn f+1
! tereHt Ind gone oyer to tho Tories, and
that tho Liberals had met with tho
| most torrib!e dofoat they had ovor encoun-
tered since tho days Of Peel. Thoro aro 100000
publicans in tho United Kingdom, and thoy and
| tloir immense constituency Of rotalnors allying
Themselves with tho Tories, had upset I'LL pre-
viouB calculations. Tho Liberals waro cut and
Gladstone was crushed. md tho very first net Of
| the Tory Government was to repoal 30 much Of
the Gladstone bill as the pnblicans aud thoir
/ customers demanded.
Unless tho Atloanco is 80 protudtcel that 1t
won't SEQ anything at all which it does not wish
to believe, 1t must acknowledge that tho results
| Of prohibition In Great Britain md tho United
States aro precisely similar. both morally and
| politically. The Adrdnce esya:
Ithe editor Of THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE, who has
beon nlakiuy elaborate Of the figures Of tho Fost
will refer to tho fsaue Of Tho advance for March ~,
he will find thoro tho opinions Of Gov. Dngloy, aena-
tors anlln aud Morrill, tho ley Dr. Fsko, tho Hon.
| J. D. Foster, ex-doy. perham, and othors. nil Of
whom testify to tho great beneAconco Of the Law in
TINT State, however 1t might mght not succeed In
other States.
The oditor Of The Tribune has no occasion to
| refer to those statomonts. It was theao very
statements which tho Boston Post at first aud
subsequently the Chof Of tho Stato Oonatabu-
| lary OF Maine completely refutod. Tho Aduanee,
however, need not sot The TRIBUNE down us =
| foo to temperance. We agreo with the Adva,ee
that drunkenness is the crowning evil OF this
| country. No agroo with tho Adrance
that 1t is urgently necessary to sup
| proas 1t. Wo differ with the Advance,
| however,, In tho method Of doing 1t.
| Apart from the moral and pollt1cal results Of
prohibition, which re havo shown repeatedly,
| there is personal and individual Wow Of tho
aubtect which tue Atpance ought to recognize.
It is the height Of ahsurdity to attempt to re-
strain man from doing thing which he do
eirea to do, and which ha neitl.or knows nor
feels to be cziniually wrong. So long as he
feols it to DO personal right FIR him to use
stimulants, and nos In isa nature criminal act,
he will resont such Interference Is violation Of
natural and personal rights. Tho application Of
tho lav In tho first place is folt to DO an imper-
dnence, and tho ingtrumontality with which it Ia
sought to bo enforced ia utterly inadequate to
tho end, inaamuoh aB tho great majority Of
policemen, constablos, mad other ageuta Of tho
law hayo IN nppetito for stimn,antB, and thoro-
foro do not feol or believe that its Indulgence ia
| crime, and consequently sympathize with tho
victims Of the law. When tho Advance can
convince men that 1t Is criminal to drink, Just
AZ It is to stonl, 1t will not DO any moro difficult
to enforce laws against intoxcation than 1t is to
enforce laws against thoft. 10 thia end tho
4tdrance eLould bend all ita onerEos through
the medium Of tho schools, tho pulpit, tile
home, aud its own columns. Moral moans arc
the only reliable, eaioont weaponB to employ,
Mon can only be weanod from strong drink by
reaaon, pleading, and appeals to their better
nature, and mover by loyal coercion.
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EXIT MuLLETT.
Tho action Of Secretary Driatow in promptly
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