The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1881-11-11

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contained one hundred and ninety con-
victs, and the New Jersey state prison
eight hundred and thirty-nine at the
same time. New Jersey, with
license law, has four times as many
prisoners, to less than double the pop
ulation OF Maine with prohibition"
The president of the Beer Brewers
Congress gives the following testimony
in his last annual report: "Thc state of
Maine with only seven barrels last
year, and 7,031 barrels the year preyi-
Gus to that, has now disappeared Alto
gother from the history of beer produc-
ing states"
The statistics of the city marshal of
Portland for the last seven years, are
as follows.
ARRESTS FOR DRUNKENNESS IN
3 1851 ,Si ,53S SiS S5S isI5 ils lsi 1879 sSo
showing with the exception of one
year, steady decrease from 2,O13. to
800. A writer in the New York Iude.
pendent says:
"Among the liquor cases in the su-
preme court last year, was one where
a barrel of beer was found in a mud
puddle in yard, pipe connecting the
barrel with a neighboring cellar. In
another case, the liquor was concealed
under pig sty'
In case that was repeated to me bv
a citizen of Maine, the whisky barrel
was sunk in the harbor, below low
water mark, and the LIQUOR from IL
procured through q pipe leading into
the cellar OF the saloon. This was so
arranged as to be detached whenever
the officers OF the law made visit to the
premises. 1t does not appear from
these facts that there are s'open sa-
looms" in Portland, or that the sale of
liquor is made easy there.
AS 10 the opposition to the law, and
ingenious evasions of 1t, it is a sad
truth that men are often found ready TO
break or evade any other laws which
withhold them from appropriating
their neighbor's property to their own
use.
In Massachusetts law has been pas
sed interdictlng the putting up of
screens before the doors and windows
of drinking saloons. This is particu-
larly annoying TO nice young men who
do not want their lady friends glancipo
In upon them while they are enioying
the social glass; but it is a blessed
boon to impecunious outsiders, who
are thus enabled to parteke of pleasures
otherwise beyond their reach.
New Hampshire, Connecticut and
Hhcde Island are working for a pro-
hibitory law, and for temperance in
struction in the common schools.
Vermont did nobly last year. Rum
sellers object to seeing the sign "Nui-
sance" staring from their walls. The
naked truth is dispIeasing to their refin-
ed ideas. One inveterate rumseller i'm
our town was so chagrined at having
been convicted of keeping "nui.
sance," that he drank himself to death
within three weeks. Is it wrong to
wish that there were more possessed of
nature so keenly sensitive? The
laws OF Vermont are good. The only
change needed is good men to enforce
them. All laws in our land are inope-
rative beyond the moral sense of the
people. And with the moral sense
blunted by the use OF alcohol, what
wonder is that there ia powerful
opposition to the execution of the law?
And here let us congratulate ourselves
upon holding our annual convention in
81. Johpsbury, majority of whose cit
izans uphold and honor the law; and
whose churches lead in every good
work-temperance work not excluded.
Old DR.. Goodell, in his "Reminiscen-
ces," says: "In the winter of 1911. I
taught school by day, and singing
class also in the evening, at st. Johns,
bury. Here l found myself amono
some of the best people. The church
was emphatically q working church.
perhaps, with even more propriety
than many of the apostolic churches
might be called a model church. Every
member appeared to be living branch
of the true vine, and to be ALWAYS
in his or her lot, ready for anv
and every service which was to be per.
formed for Christ" DR.. Goodell saws:
The parents as much expected their
to be heirs, according to the
promise, as the good patriarch himself
expected his SON Isaac would be. In
-act, whenever | see or hear the word
st. Johnsbury, L always think of the
place OF which God said: 'This is nv
est forever; here will l dwell, for 1
lave desired it, "IIe proceeds to men
mention the names of Lawrence, jew
'tt, and Fairbanks; names perpetuated
by children worthy of such godly an
'estry. Is not this community "a liy-
ng epistle," that may be "known and
cad of all mon" on the results that fol-
ow a right beginning?
The Middle States have each taken
legislative action tending to control the
'ale of spirituos liquors, sufficiently AT
east, to pacify that troublesome mi
lorlty that will not rest from CRYING:
Down with rumselllng."
n law in New York that holds the
responsible for all damages
lone by his patrons in consequence of
he liquor sold by him; and after him,
holding the owner of the saloon, or
wen OF the land it stands on, liable for
he elects of the drink obtained on the
premises, works well, believe,
In the Southern states the war is al
'eady fierce, and alas in some places
bloody. Miss Willard has taken the
hearts of the impulsive Southerners by
Ter eloquent presentation of the truth,
md the women are stepping out be-
-ond all custom, and prove them
elves to be jealous and efficient work
rs. The venerable Bishop Stephens.
Who claimed the privilege of firing the
irst gun at Fort Sumter, introduced
'ur president to q Charleston audience.
n this warfare the North and South
DIN hands; henceforth we stand side
" side, our hearts are one until our
ommon enemy is subdued.
In Arkansas, Texas and other states.
ne Beer Brewers Association defeat.
d the prohibitionists in their efforts 10
btain q constitutional amendment
gainst the liquor traffic. We in New
have little idea of such an ele-
lent as the Beer Brewers. Their bru-
Atty and lawlessness in forwarding
heir schemes is almost beyond belief.