Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1882-07-28
SIGNS OF THE TIMES IN CALIFORNIA.

SIGNS OF THE TINES IN CALIFORNIA.
To the average man, whose ideas of Cali
fornia and Californians are derived from the
chronicles of that veraclous biographcr, Mr.
Bret Harte, and the travellers tales narrated
by visitors to the Pacific Slope, the State in
question would be one of the last places In
the United States where one could conceive
of an active and influential canvass in favor
of aprohibitory liquor law. The general
conception of a Californian is of a bibulous
bpcd, of free and easy tendencies, and with
no abnormally-devclopcd bump of reverence
for anything except himself and his State
two objects of worship generally considered
as occupying the forcmos, place in the Cali
fornian system of religion. All this, how
ever, is wrong, or nj least belongs not
to the presesent but to a bygonc epoch.
The Californian of today is highly civil
lied and enlightened being and, as in the
case of all communities struggling from the
darkness of barbarism into the full light Of
modern ideas-or New England ideas, for
Of course the terms are synonymous-hc has
touched the highwater mark of the Prohi-
bitory liquor law. lie has come to rccog-
nize the fact that omnipresent bars and uni
versal dunking, with their pleasant con-
comitants Of crime, paupcrism and mis-
cry, are not on the whole desirable factors in
the progress Of Il community and having
arrived at this stage of perspicacity, he is
casting about Cor remedy for the evil.
The bad Calfornians, however, are not
yet all dead, it would appear and the sur
vivors hayc organized strong organization
under the sonorous name of The League of
Freedom" the objects of which are
to promote the unrestricted selling
and drinking of intoxicating liquors,
and to oppose all measures looking to
the observance of the Holy sabbath. Under
well known political law of attraction and
gravitation, the Freed1m-Lcaguers carried
their case to the Democratic State Conven-
ton and received thcrefrom much aid and
comfort. To oppose these dubious and anti
Sabbatarian gentry and to do what they
could toward checking Gu enormous evil, the
temperance people Oh inc 0'a'c nave oigan-
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