West Virginia freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1881-1886, 1881-04-06

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there were many" Tie Democrat
and Neus, a prominent Democratic
paper Of the county town, Cam
bridge, says:
Local Option is no longer dis
putcd benefit to our town. 70 those
who may sometimes see persons in
toxicated on our streets, it may APP
pear as oflittle merit but to those
who lived here before the act be-
came a law, and saw the amount Of
liquor drank by young persons
from fifteen to twenty-five, and now
note the almost total abstinence
among this class, can make some
estimate of the great good already
accomplished, and form correct ideas
of the untold good that the future
can alone reveal.
Caroline County
voted prohibition in 1874 Except
one district) by majority of about
800, and at n second election order
ed by the Legislature in 1876 every
district went for prohibition by $50
majority. The Union, one Of the
principal journals Of the county
town, Denton, says:
When we abolished whisky we
abolished the tramp, and since that
time they have given usno trouble.
Our Jail is an institution Of but lit
tie Importance, and is very seldom
occupied by prisoner. Our aims
house has fewer inmates than ever
before known in the history of the
county. We have fewer poor peo-
pie to provide for by private char
ity. The criminal records of our
Courts never before came SO near
running below zero. The civil dock
ct is considerably lessened, despite
the hard times and the difficulty of
making collections. Our people
generally are prosperous, happy,
and contcnted. We have none of
the great upheavals in society, of
strife, contention, and brawls,
which formerly prevailed when
Alcohol ruled as king over law and
order. Our people are freer of debt.
Our laws, with but few exceptions,
are respected and obeyed. Judge
Stump, in delivering the charge to
the Grand Jury, after the law had
been in operation for many months,
congratulated the jurors on the fact
that there was not a single prisoner
in Jail. He said, in his opinion,
there was not another county in
the State where the criminal code
was SO seldom violated as in Caro-
line.
Talbot County
was also carried for prohibition in
1874, There were seventeen per-
sons in Jail when the law went into
effect, and at the end Of eighteen
months thereafter there was not
one. The Sheriff Of the county
wrote that he could now afford to
90 and live on his farm, as there
was nothing to do in connection
with the prison, and that this state
of things was brought about by Lo-
cal Option.
Queen .1nne C0otnty
adopted prohibition in 1874, and
again in 1878, in three districts. J.
S. Sparks, Esq, The Deputy Sheriff
of the county, says that his record
book shows that 1853 prisoners were
committed to Jail from January,
1873, to August, 1879; and that al
most all Of them We're sent from the
districts where license prevailed.
Prisoners not only were brought in
drunk, but the officers who accom-
panied them were also intoxicated.
Cdlrert County
was enrolled in the prohibition cat
alogue in 1876 by an emphatic ma
jority. A correspondent, writing
to the Baltimore San (in which the
letter was published) from the
county, said 'the good effect of
the law is seen in the improved
industry of the people, and the more
thrifty appearance of house and
farm. The office of jailer in Prince
Frederick (the county town. is al
most sinecure. He is fast becom-
ing a gentlemen of leisure. The
business of the Court is growing
less Hon. Daniel r. Magruder,