The Republican journal., 1882-02-02
Temperate e Topics.
IN MAINE.

Inc grand Jury OF Portland nave reported III
liquor indictments.
The legal campaign against the ork County
rumseers is beng Aoty Waged.
The Pennington Chronicle notes an increasing
interest in the temperance cause in that place.
The Press says that David Murdoch. of Portland
sentenced Tuesday. to three months Imprisonment
for liquor selling was pardoned Thursday, BY Gov
ernOr Paisted
Dr. Henry A. Reynolds formerly Of Bangor, and
widely known for his grand work il the cause OF
temperance, is now laborng in the good work in
Massachusetts
A Westtield liquor dealer was last week the re
cpent Of postal superinscrbed "Mr.--Rum-
seller, W estteld. Please attend the funeral of a
man whom you have tried to kill for the last ten
years Signed, Justice"
Weekly Temperance meetings held in East
port. The Sentinel says; The meetings open
ing bravely and we hope that the people Ct the
town viii continue to take active interest
il them. The influence Of the meetings is alleady
being felt in cur town and 1t needs only continued
interest and IN the to make these meet
lngs power for good in our town
The Boston Transcript says: There are about
one thousand secret liquor saloons in Maine, but
it is said that they do not sell an average OF two
dollars worth of hquor annually to an lnhabiant
\ friend who has travelled in the Dirlgo State
thinks that two dollars worth Of such liquor as
they sell in Maine ought to keep an entire township
intoxicated for month.
In Cumberland county there is a movement to
determine whether prohibition prohibits The
grand Jury have reported over one hundred indct-
ments The Evening Item says on Sunday be
tween seventy five and one hundred Portland
liquor dealers met and formed themselves into an
association They propose to force trial Oh steru
indictment found by the grand jury, for liquor
selling, and adopt this plan to further their ends
AT the meeting a large sum OF money was sub
scrbed, and eminent legal talent will be employ ed
defence of those who were indicted That is a
better investment OF their profits than re stool king
NOTES FROM ABROAD.
Teetotallers will be delighted to learn that a
temperance movement of no ordinary strength has
begun in France
The st. Adams hotels are open again, and the
Temperance committee Will abate none of its Wig
lance in Furnishing sales OF liquor therein
On the occasion Of the opening Of a Sailors
Home at Dundee, Scotland, recently, the Earl of
Dahousie contrasted the condition of sailors at
present with that of twenty years ago, and said
that drunkenness in the English navy was now
almost unknown.
There was SO much drunkenness in Salt Lake
City, L tah on the Christmas holiday that the city
council passed special ordinance forbidding the
sale Of Intoxicating liquors on New Years Day.
Governor st. John of Kansas, in a recent speech
said: The rum power is making desperate
efforts to break the force Of prohibition in this
State, but you need have no fear we have raised
the black flag the whiskey traffic, and neither
propose to give nor ask quarter"
In Michigan letter to the Portland Press Neal
Row says The refusal of the last Legislature TO
submit the question to the people of constitution
al prohibition, has very much exasperated them
am told that three fourths of the people of the
State are III favor of an amendment 10 the copsti-
tuition prohibiting the manufacture and sale OF in
toxicating liquors. They say this is true of d EN-
ocrats as well as of Republicans.
Prohibition seems to be making considerable
Roadway in the South particularly in Alaba ma
On the first of January the prohibitory liquor laws
passed by the Legislature, having been endorsed
by the people, went into effect in Etowah, Lime
stone, Tallapoosa Butler, Lowndes, Coffee, Macon
and several other counties In several other cdun
ties prohibition went into effect soon after the ad
jGurnment of the Alabama Legislature Ii is
questionable whether more than corporal's guard
could have been found in favor of prohibition in
these counties fifteen years ago
The liquor laws in New Hampshire are not en-
forced and there is an alarming increase of intem-
perance and debauchery. Gov Bell being asked
what the trouble is says: ''The chief reason why
the statute is violated in popuOus places is be-
cause the inhabitants do not feel strongly enough
about the matter to prosecute offenders The
liquor interest in those localities is powerful, and
dies hard and only vigorous and persistent efforts
Oh the part of temperance people can subdue it y
temperance REVEALS what is want ted every where
When that comes, then the public will appreciate
the value of good law. Until then the law is
a farce