The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1878-08-28

State one hundred agencies established
by the law, where vinous and spirit
Gus liquors are sold for medicinal and
mechanical purposes; now to verify |
Defenders position, we must find the
State of Maine not benefited in any
degree by this law. Is such the case? ,
| CLEAN these facts in regard to the |
matter, from the report of Ex-Govern.
or Dingley. Ipresume Defender will
consider them authentic. Be |
fore the enactment of the law, SlO,-
100000 were spent annually in that
State for intoxicating liquors, making
average of S22 % to each inhabitant,
since its enactment, the sales by the
one hundred agencies, amount to
800, 900 annually, or about 10 cents
to each inhabitant, then allowing lib
eral conjecture, say 81, OOO.OOO for the
amounts imported for private use, and
the amounts disposed Of surreptitOusly
that makes the total annual expendi.
lures under the workings Of this law,
about 81 IS to each inhabitant, against
s22 % before the passage of the law.
Taking into consideration the increase
of population, the people of Maine
would now under the old bar-room re-
CINE, be spending annually for strong
drink, s13, 1898, 900; deduct from that
the 500, 900 received by the agencies
and the 81 900, 900 expended by those
importing for private use, and the sur
reptitous sales, and have left, some
thing near s13, 900, 900 annually saved
to the State by that law. Not only
that, but its greatest and grandest
achievements, say the same authority,
are to be seen in her homes, school
houses, roads, courts of justice, jails,
alms-houses, and their taxes, and the
enactment of the same legislative meas
ures, and the rigid endorsements of its
provisions would obtain like good re-
suits for the people of Kentucky. The
opinion of r. Campbell to the contra
ry, Notwithstanding. III wasn't deaf to
the hearing of anything good, 1 would
try to dissuade him from his avowed
determination to eliminate spurious
liquors from the channels Of legitimate
commerce; we people living here in
this region of malaria, are prone to al
most all the facilitating and exhaust
ing diseases that human flesh is incident
to, and not unfrequently, our lives de-
pend upon the timely and judiciOus
administration of spurious liquors. Sit
uated as we are, our chances for good !
health and long life are meagre enough
at best, and if Defender persists in de.
priving US of this stay in emergencies
I very much fear such rigid and I'M
just measures will produce a spirit of
emigration ruinous to our country.
Defender thinks its herculean task
to stop the manufacture and impOrta-
ton of whisky, but regards us Muir
phies as equal to the emergency. l
think he has every reason to be san
guine of success. The Murphy rage
has long since passed its meridian, and
is now far down the decline, almost
sunk to rest, l can't, and l very much
doubt whether Defender can point to
one bar-room that has been closed by
the Murphy rage; and among the hun
dreds have seen don the blue, | can call
to mind but one who gives any prom
Use of permanent reformation. Our
annual August election. which is just |
over, shows conclusively the salutary |
influence it has exerted upon society
in general. Wherever a voting place |
was in close proximity to drinking sa-
loon, drunkenness was almost the rule |
and not the exception, and constant
stream of ribaldry and profanity that
would put to shame Billingsgate, and
the worst specimen of dragon ever seen
in Flanders. A man that could not de-
rive encouragement from these favOra-
bic prognosties, must be the veri-
est hypocondriac that ever lived.
My advice to defender would be to
devote his time and attention to writ
ing poetry, not that l have seen any
thing that would justify me in pre-
dieting for him the achievement Of any
great repute in that line, but from his
seeming obliviousness of the matter of
fact affairs of this life confronting him
constantly, 1 would judge that his
mind was generally off peregrinatIng
in that region, midway between the
terrestrial and celestial, where the
minds of poets are supposed to rumin-
ate during their moments of inspira-
tim. It's no matter of surprise to me
that he hangs with particular empha-
sis, on my analysis and synthesis, for
they are words the practical import of
which is evidently sanscrit to him.
Notwithstanding the persistent and
determined efforts of Defender to ostra-
CHE me from the brotherhood of ortho-
dox temperance defenders, have
heretofore earnestly desired to see
some measures of reform perfected,
compulsory or otherwise, that would
remedy all Of the evils connected with