The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1882-06-29

The Yam Hill County Jail, Oregon, has been
empty for six months. Cause, no saloons open
in the county
a total abstinence society in Harvard College,
recently organized, has now fifty members eu-
rolled.
The strength of the temperance cause is to be
found III educating the young in the principles
of total abstinence.
The reason the Pond Liquor law was pro-
nounced unconstitutional i'll Ohio was because
it was of the nature of license law, which
laws are prohibited by the State constitution.
The al absorbing topic Just now in temper
ance circles is the impending struggle in Iowa.
On the 2th inst. the people vote for or against Il
prOhibtorv amendment to the State constitu-
ton.
The Massachusetts, Legislature, just closed,
effected two things for temperance law
prohibiting a rum shop within four hundred
feet Of public school building, and Il law clos
ing ali doors and like means of communication
between saloons and contiguous dwellings,.
The repeal of the threebed law in this State
VIII have tendency to lessen the number of
houses of very doubtful morality, that the i'll
adJudgcd measure i'll many instances compel-
cd. in order that the pandcrer who kept them
could maintain his license as a hotel keeper.
The liquor dealers of Iowa are said to have
received Sl.000.000 to aid them in preventing
the passage of the prohibitOry amendment TO
the State Constitution. Prohibition has workc d
so benefcially in Kansas that it is expected Iowa
will profit by her example and give a striking
majority for temperance and genuine reform.
The Cincinnati Gazette says If German
laws Were extended to Cincinnati every brewer
i'll the city would be IN Jail and every bit of his
property contScatcd." Germans are obliged to
obey laws while in Germany, but in America,
in the interest of drinking. they trample them
under their feet.
The first text of the first temperance address
delivered by DR.. Justin Edwards fifty years
can never become drunkard." A half century
OF scientific discussions, of legal experiments
and of religious efforts has never carried the
question beyond that trusm.
The Boston Pilot ys:-.4An Italian chemist
has invented process for sodifying wine. and
Il French chemist has found means of crystal
lizing brandy, making it like alum and readily
dissolved. Nomore timid public speakers now.
Modesty and ditfidencc can stow away as many
lozenges in their vest pocket as will loosen the
most retiring tongue"
During the prohibition canvass now going on
in Iowa one worker has distributed 10000 tenn
perance tracts. The main point in the struggle
Is the beer question. The total absaincrs are
more bitter against beer than whiskey. for they
say i is the entering wedge in drunkards life.
Boys always get drunk on beer before they
touch Whlskey. Hence q large number of the
publications are directed against beer saloons.
The circuit preachers in Iowa are making Won
favor of prohibition.
Mr.. Richard Smith, of the Cincinnati Gazette,
says the liquor dealers of Cincinnati do not pay
their share of taxation. He quoted the follow
ing figures to show this The brewers of Gin
cinnati eighteen of them, pay $1,052.26; the
saloon keepers, 1900 in number, pay Sc. .222 %,
making an aggregate of $13,274.55. The dry
goods house of John Shillito 4 Co. alone, which
closes on Sundays. pays over $4,000 per annllm
taxes more than all the breweries and saloons
in the city.
In Russia the most stringent rules have re-
Gently been adopted, intemperance being eX-
ceptionally prevalent The National Baptist re-
ports the following synopsis of the latest de-
cree --"There is to be only one liquor shop in
village; and where two or three villages are
almost contiguous the one shop must suffice for
their combined inhabitants. The publican must
be a native of the village. must be appointed
and paid by the Common Council and must
sell food as well as liquor. If he allows any
person to get drunk he is liable not only to dis
missal, but to fine and Imprisonment. If any
Russian village is reported to the authorities to
be addicted to drunkenness the sale of liquor
may be interdicted for as long as may seem
necessary