The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1874-05-19
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WINE THE WATER.
TEMPERANCE IN EUROPE.
THE CRUSADE IN GREAT BRITAIN-wHAT THE
WOMEN ARE DOING IN MANCHESTRR-TEN-
PERANCE REFORM IN swEDEN-sOMETHING
PRACTICAL-TAKING AWAY THE RIGHTS OF
THE DEALERs. ...i
The Manchester Guardian England speaks
thus concerning the movement in that city:
A movement resembling to some extent the
women's whisky war in America has been
commenced in Manchester. The fair ground
at Knott Mill, which, during Easter week,
had been given up to the annual fair, was on
Sunday the scene OF very different gather
ing. From temporary platform, consisting
of q lorry, about a dozen workingmen's wives
addressed an attentive crowd on the evils of
intemperance. The chairwoman said she had
been teetotalar for twenty-seven years. and
had never regretted it. Some ofthe speakers
we've members of good templar lodges, and
were styled " sisters" and all had, in some
way or other, been brought over to total
abstinence through the terrible examples of
drunken husbands and fathers. One woman
introduced herself as no star away bird, but
the daughter of old Joe Blank, the drinkers
est man in Deansgate." Another speaker
also locally connected, said she 'shad been
twenty>one years drink-cursed, having for
a husband the greatest druDkard that ever
walked the streets Of Manchester" This
woman's husband, who at one time
never without an excuse to thrash
her, was now a reformed character.
At the close of the speeches
Of l. f11a
pledge. From Dundee, too, we learn that
female crusade against drink has been begun
there. A deputation of women, principally
of the middle classes, waited, on Monday,
upon the provost and magistrates of that
town, and in the name of the "wives. moth
ers, and daughters, and women forming
part of the class in this large community
which suffers most from the evil results of
the liquor traffic." presented memorial in
favor of restricting, as tar as possible, the
granting of licenses. In the evening there
was a PRAYER meeting and conference, solely
attended by women.
TEMPERANCE IN SWEDEN.
The New York World contains the follow
ing synopsis of a paper read at the last meet.
ing of the British Association for the Ad-
vancement of Science on the licensing system
and laws of Sweden and the Gotbenburg
public house system (: At the last meeting
of the British Association for the Advance
ment of Science Mr.. d. Carnegie road a pa
per on the licensing laws OF Sweden and the
Gothenburg public house system. In
Gothenburg, a town of 10000 Inhabitants,
the public houses had for the last seven
years been conducted on an entirely new
principle and with such success that a bill
called the spirituous liquors (Scotland) bill.
\ founded on that principle was intropuced in
Of rlf
doubt, be renewed next year. In 1880,
$4,000 stills delugej Sweden with guam
| tity of spirits calculated at ten gallons per
head. The consequences were fearful, re-
sulting at last in reaction, which at length
induced the diet of 1854 to pass the present
| licensing laws, the principal features OF
which were that all small stills were abol-
ished, and an excise duty imposed of Is,
sid. per gallon. The local authority had
the power of fixing the number OF licenses
| in each district, which were periodically sold
by auction, and the amount realized was
| paid to the local treasury, to the relief of the
rates. The effect was that in the rural dis
tricts, comprising seven eighths of the pop
ulation, a most remarkable reform was
effected in the drinking habits ofthe Swedes,
the number OF licenses being reduced on an
average to one in 5000 of the rural popula-
ton, while in many districts licenses were
altogether prohibited. This had
CONCENTRATED THE TRADE
| in towns. where, although some improve
ment was effected, the consumption ard
trade still continued on a very large scale.
A committee appointed in 1854 by the inhab.
itants of Siothenberg reported that in orde
to extend the reform to the towns it was
necessary to reorganize the liquor traffic on
an entirely new principle, viz: no individ-
ual, either as proprietor or manager, under a
public house license, should derive any pri-
vate gain from the sale of spirits. thus abol-
ishing all temptations unduiy to extend the
consumption. The principle was immedi-
ately carried out by an association of the
| most respected members of the community,
who formed limited-liability company 70
take over all the public-house licenses, to
conduct the business solely in the interest
of sobriety and morality, and to pay over the
whole profits TO the town treasury. The
result had been that the police cases Of
drunkenness, which, in 1854, was 6.10 pen
4 cent, decreased to ?. % per cent. in 1870. The
last two wears showed an increase mp to 2. Y
per cent, caused by large increase of wages
and a practice of what is called "saining,'
or four or FIVE men clubbing together to buy
the minimum quantity of spirits allowed &c
be sold at the grocers' or retail shops where
spirits were sold not to be drank on the
nremises the licenses of which were sold 81