Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-07-31

people subject ana SuDSerVienL 10 d DlOt
of ignorance upon her statute books.
| When Massachusetts took the back
track against prohibition she took it with
a will. A stringent license law and a
heavy sum for license is the result. The
dealer in liquor and the lessee OF the
building where he sells it by license, are
held equally liable for all damage or vio-
lence committed by the customer when
under the influence of drink, and IT such
violence is committed the license is re-
voked Sunday traffic and the sale to
minors forfeits license, which cannot
be renewed by the same person thereafter.
Cities and towns have the power of local
option, and may grant or refuse license
by majority vote in their several pre-
cincts. while the law further requires the
sale of alcoholic beverages in the most
public places, unhidden by screens, lat
tees. curtains and such appliances, caus-
ing the drinker to drop all hypocrisy and
take his character in his hand when he
tips the glass outside the privacy of his
own home. 1t is needless to add that
under it's present system of regulating
the sale of intoxicants, Massachusetts is
| fast regaining her standard for a truthful
and temperate population, almost lost by
| it in its years of temperance folly.
PROHIBITION CHRONIC IN MAINE
In Maine only has prohibition attained
to chronic form, much to the Joy and
profit of Boston dealers in doctored rum,
and those who gain their living IN the
club of the universe" by the sale of bot
ties, TASKS and corks, while the railways
and express companies are in a happy
state of mind, as they are thus enabled to
pile up fat deposits as the result of in
dustrious carriage of profitable small
packages, where the pine tree shilling is
vet gwen and takel in change. Of
course, more drunken men and boys can
be seen reeling about the streets of Bangor
and Portland in one day than can be
observed in similar condition in the
streets of New York and Boston in full
month, while corresponding iniQuity is as
plenty as water in the Penobscot and
Androscoggin.
KANSAS TAKES THE EPIDEMIC.
Really, it is quite funny proceeding,
after the proven fact in these New Eng
land States that as long as whisky is dis
titled, whisky will. be drank, and the eff
fort to entirely suppress its sale
only increases its deleterious in
fluences as well as its con-
sumption, that the child Kansas has
picked up this expensive and dangerous
legal bauble, the dynamite Of curse COR
tanned in which is sure to explode and
fill her from center to borders with liti-
cations, revenges, incendiaries, liars,
thieves and drunkards, crowd her prisons
and pOorhouses with fresh inmates and
her asylums with additional maniacs
Areedy has commenced the Satanic 1aeao
moral so5rees in its principal cities and
towns, and the innocent dancers are as
sembling in parlors, cellars, dens and
court rooms, while old Belzebub himself
sits perched upon an invisible rostrum,
and glibly draws his bow, rosined with
anger and deceit, across the plant strings
of human will impatient of legal re-
strai Mt of appetite.
CORRALLNG A DRINK.
In the cities of Atchison, Lawrence,
Leavenworth and Topeka, and the towns
of Ottawa, Newton, Wichita, Paola, etc, it
it is just as easy to get fellows whistle
wet as it used to be in Boston when the
temperance folks had the critter thoroughly
coqed up, and you would even get arrest
ed and fined one dollar if caught smok-
ing cigar on fremont and Washington
streets. It was only necessary then to
drop down to Brattle and Haymarket
squares, or take slight stroll up on Bea-
con hill, and if you knew the passwords,
to get plumb full, why all you had to do
was to cock your right eye, and squint like
old Uncle Ben Butler, and sweetly and
tho rio xUOr3 tonic
"sar-sa- pa-rll-za ," to draw old Bourbon,
French brandy, Holland gin, or the ia
vorite, Boston tipple, old Medford rum,
from a corner-drug store soda-mill, or
from the back of a family grocery store
eler, with a diamond pin, gave me the
Kansas countersign just as l swung out
of ST. Joseph, contidentally telling me
that he hadn't tasted drop for whole
year of any thing resembling spirits fer
mented, but now that he was going where
it was against the law to NEEDLE
with even the brass knobs on
the animals horns, he knew he was
just that obstinate and lncorrigible to be
laid out stiff as a rail, or limpsey as
rag, the first town he struck being so
thoroughly fond of secret societies in the
abstract. l first was reused into definite
action at Topeka, where man said, as
though he believed it, that it was totally
suppressed. Dodging round corner in
to a genteel little pill shop, l put on an
innocent and homelike smile, and told a
clerk who had an inqulring eye, that l
believed 1 was so debilitated by the eff
fects of the hydrogin in the heated firma-
nent on high that if he'd pull the stopper
of bottle of "Apol-lo-na-ris' he
would put me under mountain
of obligations. He proved model for
intelligence, and the absorption of solid
facts as they we re presented, and this
cheering liquid, the discovery of whose
hidden fountain was brought about by
the destruction of the grape vines by its
earth piercing gases and fumes, of
whole Rhlneland vineyard, went straight
as an arrow to the spot and filled the
aching void within. l thought could
detect, as raised the first glass to my
lips, certain flavor of sour-mash, such
as greets ones nostrils as he passes on
the cars from Bardstown to Louisville,
Kentucky, but if arraigned before Kan
sas much-picked jury, should have to heed
the ipaoard admonition, "poor worm be
STILL in regard to the chemical qualitie S
and properties of this particular Topeka
bottle of this popular stomach settler.
HONEST, BUT MISTAKEN.
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