The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1882-06-30

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,ra can pet along without disturbing hisl
nciohbors, or making too scandai0utl
exhibition of himself, he n allowed NJ,
hi- way In peace, whether iul
Portland or New York. II l. only when
his load 81 whisky j. - heavy 'hat hcl
nltefs complaints ol The weight. on tnll-l
beneath The burden, or dis:urbs hc publ
IA peace. that the case-iovirg policeman
claims him as victim ~ law.
SURPRISING r>cKFAsE oF CRIME.
That The law has not diminished crime
III Maine II shown by ihe record. in|
1851. when prohibition first came On thei
statute book the State Prison had ~ ini
mates. Of whom 8 were lhore for honi-|
eide: 3 for murderous as-anlis; 4 ior|
arson, and for rare. IN 1880 The state
Prison Ind o67 il ~ happy family--z5l
Tor homicide for murdcrous assaults n
3 for arson Is for rape and attempt 4
Tor fclonicus assaults: for robbery. and
. for piracy. The increase Of al crimes
was 210 per cent. OF the higher grades,
.i07 per cent. while the increase of poru-|
ation from 1850 10 1890 was only 81 27l
per cent. And IL any one reads the rel
|pori or The Attorney General for 1850.
lhe will see Tie criminal business Of the
ICourts, and get an Instructive lesson
COMPARING MAINE WIN SEW Jersey.
Let is begin with population first. III
'lsc0. when Maine was a District. She
had only l51.749 inhabitants and New
Jersey l83.858. III half century she
Mad passed New Jersey. FOR in 1850
Maine had 5Ss.1J9 people and New
Jersey only 489555. In 1851 prohibit
Ition began it, work. In the thirty years
from 1910 10 1880 Maine only increased
her population 5l.27 per cent. while New
Jersey advanced hers over Isl per cent.
Maine lost some By Immigration, but
very little more than New Jersey. In
1870 there were just 400 more natives o.
Maine living outside Of her bounds than
there were natives Of New Jersey out Of
her territory. How many thcreare now
I've have as yet no means Of knowing,
but certainly not enough 10 account for
1.-The lack of comparative increase, nor has
foreign migration built New Jersey.
There are sO9,3 ,39s natives there u $685.
O76 in Maine, as shown BY . recent cen
.us bulletin.
\ III 1850 Maine was ahead in her religi-
ous facilities. She had o45 Churches,
and New Jersey had only 613. Maine
tried the benciiccnt power Of prohibition
In 1850 shc had increased The number q
'.her Churchca II per cent. while New
Jersey under license had m increase 81
'5s per cent: the Church property 81
Maine was IN value 2o.l per cent. and
''that or New Jersey 1913 per cent. while
1.-The Church sittings in Maine had in
creased only II per cent, against an in
'crcaSe Of s. per cent in New Jersey
And vet we are told cooily that Nv NC
state IN this Union has prospcred g
much as Maine has during the last twenty
years" and that prohibition has con-
'|tributcd TO the material wealth. happi
ness and prosperity or the State The
,'mafcrial wealth and prosperity do not
show: perhaps the happiness is there
'l'To be drunk Is 10 be happy says th'
od saw The percentage 0f arrests fol
drunkenness IN the principal cities q
THAT State. SO much over that ofthc citic'
:of New Jersey. infcrs q laEgc amount q
THAT kind OF happiness : and as Neal Dow
oand the rest tell us that there j. littl'
;opcn drinking of liquor, and Sccrc
shrinking has not taken III place, ihc onl,
: solution y 10 be found in the assumption
THAT there i here . carbon hydrate n
stead Of an oxyhydrate, and reall,
whisky.
II TEEToTALssN GONE MAD.
n That ain unrclcnting war should be mad'
y lon drunkenness Is not only proper bu
snccdful. But II must not be Chimes
wharf.-the advancement OF hidcousl.
painted shields and the beating Of gongs
Legislative enactments, unsupported b.
spublic sentiment; empty assertions tha
! are without truth to sustain them nbus
-lof all who doubt the power or proprict'
eof the reiNning method. and Tie quas
alliance with whisky against becr--thcs
seem 10 form the weapons Of Neal Dow
sand his co-laborers. They have beel
ctrying for years. and what Is the result
PLY their own showing moro drinkor
eand moro drunkards than ever cxcop
Tin this State, where they insist al J
serene. Here Ex-Governor DingIcy ant
this ink artists paint Us rosy pictures Q
-thc Arcadian simplicity of the pcopl
-bccausc of prohibition and the too utter
illy perfect s0briety that exists. The trut'
c|thiows dark shadow on their effort
past. II reveals the fact that the pcopl
s,of Maine. deprived Of the lighter drink
nthat temper the habit elsewhere, hav
rlmllen back on Illicit whisky; that n
I-ltrado In intoxicants j. thrown mainI
cIwifhout restraint or supervision into th
ellowcst and most irresponsible hands
|tlthat the percentage OF drunkenness
fhcrx> than IN fho Iiccn1c Stairs