Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-02-21
THE OLD WORLD.
POLITICAL Movements at Various Euro
pean Capitals-American Cattle Ship
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or The United States had, at the conclusion of
lis civil war, understood the true character of
amnesty. MI. AndIeaux argued that the adop-
tion of plenary amnesty would cause disas-
trous reaction and deprive the republic of the
irulI OF eight years Of moderation. Minister
Ler"yer sincerely stlgmatiZed commune as a
premecitated socialist movement carried ont in
Tue presence OF the enemy. 1t was impossible
10 grant amnesty to those who boasted that
.ney would revive the commune and gloried in
tnelr mlsdeeds. III. Magnet spoke in sunport
oi piehary amnesty. General debate then
CLOSED. Discussion of the clauses is fixed for
tomorrow A IVA
THE WAY 1T Is DONE IN BURMAH,
CALCUTTA, Feb. 2O.--A report from Mondalay
asserts that the king of Burmah has murdered
all the royal princes and entire families. and
replaced the new ministers with those formerly
III oiiice' tnus restoring despotic government.
THE PLAGUE.
ST. PETERSBURG, Feb. 2O.-Despite the gen.
erai thaw and warm weather throughout the
injected districts, both public and private ad
VICES state That no fresh cases of plague have
occurred.
FRENCH DISSENsIONs.
PARIS, Feb. 2O.-There Is considerable dissen.
SION among republicans concerning questions of
amnesty for political ofenses and the impeach
5.
minister OF the Interior has become very u1
popular with the extremists in CONSEQUENCES of
.hhulllng the vote Of the municipality grant
ing money to assist returning communists, and
ms assertion OF authority over the police, The
'ou'1tH Aes OeO0tS, Leon Says organ, of TODAY
opposes the impeachment scheme,
BULGARIAN ASSEMBLY.
I1RNoVA, Feb 20.-The members of the Rnl-
gailan assembly have nearly all arrived There
Is considerable excitement in CONSEQUENCE of
rnmors OF Servlan encroachments. The power
iel party WISHES to postpone the date of open-
Ing the assembly. About twenty DELEGATES
rom East Eoumania and six from Macedonia
axe mere Claiming admission to the assembly,
AFFAIRS IN EGYPT.
LONDON, Feb. 20.-The minister of war has
resigned. It is said that Cherif Pasba. an old
Turk, will succeed Nubar Pasha at the head of
the ministry. The Times says neither England
nor france would be disposed to witness with
indifference the success of the coup d. etat
winch would place Egypt again under the per
sonal rule of the khedive.
SHIP BUILDERS FAILURE.
LONDON, Feb. 2l.-Thomas Sutton, ship
owner and merchant, of Shields and Newcastle.
HAS i1lleo. Liabilities estimated at 912D, 0GO.
AMERICAN CATTLE.
At meeting of the Mersey docks and harbor
board yesterday, it was decided to spend E35.-
ooJ IN erecting slaughter sheds and lairape
necessary to the continuance of the American
cattle trade.
COMMUNIST AMNESTY.
q correspondent at Paris states certainly less
than one hundred members OF the chamber Of
deputies Wall vote for unconditional amnesty.
MINES FLOODED.
= = Vienna dispatch states the salt mines at
Mlci.esha have been flooded. Tie miners Yer,
ed 49,
MISCELLANEOUS FOREIGN
a petition from worsingmcn of Austria. ask
log Tor universal suffrage, has been presented
III the lower house of the reichstas.
herr Luzlns was yesterday elected second
wee president OF the German reichstag, receiv-
ing Iz3 votes against Is for Herr Seydewitz.
A number Of young citizens of Zurich have
starred tor Georgi a, where it is proposed to
establish a Swiss colony under the aus pieces of
the Worklngmen's association. Others will
follow.
The negotiations between China and Russia
are at standstill, the latter refusing to sur
render the Kudiah.
y, Inc number of shipbuilders on strike in the
lyme snip yards Increased 5000 yesterday.
ohio IrOh'bitiOnists. Tickle. aud Platform
COLUMBUS, O., Feb. 2O.-The State Prohibi-
tlon convention met here to-day, about 100 ner-
sons being present. The following ticket WAS
nominated: For governor Gideon T. Stewart
OF NorWalk; lieutenant governor j. w. Sharn
OF Delaware; state auditor, Michael J. Tanning
OF Nor"aik; treasurer, Elias Blove, of Craw
toEd supreme judge, J. H. Hardy, of Cleve-
land; attorney general, S. B. Foster. of Logan
county; member of the board of public works.
Jas. Il. Horton, Miami county, The platform
adopted favors a law giving labor for cornnra-
lions first lien for wages, for reserviuo nuhlic
lands tor homesteads; the suppression of gam
ping IN stocks, prohibition of labor of children
under fourteen years in mines and Factories
universal suffrage, issue of small interest bear
ing ponds, compulsory education, reduction of
Official salaries and local option.
Prohibttory Legislation.
To the Editor of the Globe.
In your daily issue of February 10Th, you
take occasion under the above caption to sneak
against the pending constitutional amend
ment prohibiting the manufacture and sale of
intoxicating liquors. The usual bare asser-
tions are made upon this subject without one
fact or figure to sustain them.
remit me to say in the first place, that
proh1bltory statute is not a sumptuary law, If
1t we're then all license laws oug ht to be abol-
lshed There is just much sumptuary in
making 1T Illegal to sell liquor on Sunday as
on Monday; to sell to inebriates as to sober
men. Prohbitory law forbids the sale, not the
use. 1t Is not true that prohibition increases
the use of liquors. This oft-repeated fallacv
L have challenged the proof of again and
again. both through the public press and from
the platform, and it has never been given. If
the GLOBE thinks that the principle of prohibi-
ton increases the crime against which it is
If Ynf hp w,
amendment to the decalogue. What a mistake
the Lord made when He commanded. Thou
shalt not kill, Thou shalt not steal, Thou
shalt not commit adulterv.'
How much wise" it would have been to have
licensed all these crimes-sold induscnccs for
instance.
Maine is referred to as an exhibition of tho
failure of license. First, it tends to onium-
eating, beside which drunkenness almost as
suines the dignity Of virtue" Is it possiblel
Sncu sentence in the nineteenth century,
VIII the GLOBE show where and how opium
eating increases taxation? When has there
been single crime committed through it's
use? What victim the gallows ever laid his
terrible fate to opium? Docs it bring three
fourths of our convicts to their PRISON. The
absolute absurdlty of this assertion would
shade ten columns of truth as black as nipht
1t is claimed that prohibition Dies not decrease
drunkenness, but does increase it. In the next
pu IL ID tiLuulIlctl LnaJ IN Name 1t Is
nearly suppressed. This is for the sake of in
Producing the opium argument. The assertion
is true There is not one-tenth the amount of
drunkenness nor one-tenth the amount of
liquor sold in Maine, as before the enactment
of the law.
In 1882, the population of Maine was 40
600. There was then 1000 licensed saloons.
Their sales were Sl0GOJ, 900 annually. The
population now is 625O00. There is not now
an open bar in the STATE Who says so? Here
are the witnesses. Over their own signatures
they assert it.:
Hon. Neal Dow, Hon. VIM p FRYE. Hon. Tx
Coy. Perhau, Hon. Hannibal Hamlin, Hon.
Judge Isockberry Davis, Hon. Ex Gov. Nelson
Ding!ey, all from Maine her honnrcd sons.
can produce hundreds of like testimonials
The widest estimate Of secret sales does not
exceed $l.O0O,O QUO, reduction of nine-tentbs.
In 1881 there were thirteen distilIeries. now
not one In 1888, by official report, there were
lo,00O persons, 500 of them women, accnstomed
to get drunk. This was one to fortv-6ve
Now there are 1900, or one to 300,
NOW, SIR, there may be a class of temperance
men VINO love to spend their time saving drunk
ardsMwell enough to vote for the openino If
too'ooo orunkard making shops in this country
oue your humble servant, although an earnest
n WORKER IN this reform, is not one of that kind
FROM ltlon does prohibit. If it increases the
SAFE OF liquor, then the rum sellers shonld he
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