Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1875-04-27

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''duiloess of the times is reported as the oc-
casion. About four hundred in Brooklyn
have also suspended. or have closed their
shops. The incseased temperance sentiment
In these two cities has also strongly operated
to bring about these results. The Women's
Prayer Movement in these two cities has done
mi much %. towards @ bringing about this result.
y. Bogfort's Yias and Liquor E;rcplar, in
late review of the year. says the irvine and
liquor trade does not present an exception to
the decrease in business which all branches Of
trade have suffered. There is, of course, no
admission that the progress of the Temperance
agitation, has anything to do With the falling
of OF the liquor trade. But many thousands
who we're its customers in 1873, reached by
the crusade of prayer aud the total abstinence
movement during the year just closed, ceased
TO be its patrons. --r i5.s
Bird. The efficiency of POhibitOry Lcgisla-
tion elsewhere
Restrictions on the Liquor Traffic.
A late number of the Toronto GIoLs. in an
article with; the above title, reviews paper
presented at the last meeting of the British
Social Science Association 1t also shows
the effect of such restrictive legislation as tho
Mackenzie law to have been to materially
diminish drunkenness and crime. We quote
this portion of the article in question as
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"lf the actnai cases of drunk enness and
crime. as given in official returns, are now
looked at, the argument for restrictive legisIa.
tion in reference to the liquor traffic will re-
celVe still additional weight. In seventeen
OF the principal towns and cities of Scotland,
during the three years preceding the enact
ment OF the Mackenzie law, the number of
cases of drunkenness brought before the
courts was l45, 1866. In the next three years
after this law was in operation, the number
fell to 1l6,lOl-a decrease of 80, ,365 cases,
without considering the increase of the pops
ulation. When we take individual cities, the
same fact is seen, If possible, more strikingly.
In lS5l-2-3, under the old law, there were
in Glasgow II ,648 cases of drunkenness. In
lSo4-5-6, under the new, SO, LAG, or de-
crease of 1852. In Edinburgh, during
1884, the number stood 1927, while
IN lS55-6-7 these cases had fallen to 1883.
To show that this change is not merely acci>
dental, We have but to compare the number
in Edinburgh during the year preceding the
passing of the act with what it was in 1873.
In 1852 the apprehensions in the Scottish
capital for drunkenness were 6.367; in 1873.
2,O5S. The preceding cases were those of
mere drunkenness. How stands the case in
reference to drunkenness combined with
crime! In Glasgow during the years 1851
2-3 there we're 81 ,972 cases of this kind
In lS54-5-6, under tho new law, Is, ,370.-
During the same time in Edinburgh the same
class of cases fell from 1856! to 20, ,S24.-
The very first year after the Mackenzie bill
passed there was in Glasgow, Of cases of com.
bined drunkenness and crime, fall from
10,659 to 6,787.
DOES PROHIBITION Prohibit ?-At late
meeting under the auspices of the Church of
England Temperance Society, held at Mau-
chester, among the distinguished speakers was
the Bishop of Lichfeld. In the course of
his address he said:
"Ee had just lately como from several
months travel through the State of Maine,
and he must say the appearances there wetc
very much in favor of the Maine Liquor Law.
(Cheers.l There was no such temptation
there as was exposed to the people in England.
where man, if Ire was of weak mind and
weak resolution, could go into one public>
house after another, spending sixpence here,
and shilling there, and two shillings in
another. until he went ont of the lat one
either to sleep in kennel or die in ditch.
No such. thing as that was possible in the
State of Maine, and he thought that 10 itself
was an enormous gain. As for what took
place in private he cared little to enquire. If
he passed through country infested with
bandits, he should think it some gain if the
police, though they could not apprebend all
the bandits at once, were at least SO vigilapt
as to compel them TO keep in their dens.-
Cloud cheering IF he were travelling in a
country infested with wild beasts, he should
think it great gain that man had attained so
much ascendency in that country that the
Wild beasts were afraid to meet him in the
face, and lie down in their Iairs."
Fifty thousand dollars in fines have been
collected in Maine during the last yeat under
the workings of the prohibitory Law. and
crime has decreased nearly twenty per cent.
What failures they are in Maine
SCRTTAToR.
LoAFEns.-An exchange concludes pun
gent article on the above subject as follows
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