St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1883-03-02

ernment, 81 ,022 ,029, and we have a to-
tai of S45, ,297 400, or a little over S25
per capita of you. population. know
OF no other way that you could invest
the same amount of money and get in
return so many heart aches, destroyed
homes, misery, poverty and crime, and
not single blessing. Yes, but, says
some weak politician, if we adopt pro-
hibition what will we do with the sa-
loon vote 1t seems to me that it is of
greater Importance to know what the
saloon vote will do with us if we don't
adopt it. Another suggests that prohi-
market for grain. The entire cOnsump-
tion of grain by all the distilleries of
the United States for 1882 was only
q Ass, 900 bushels. Kansas alone can
supply this out of her wheat, corn and
oat crop of the past year and have l90,-
OOO, 900 bushels left. But at these dis
tilleries in 1882, 10000 head of live
stock were fed. Would the demand for
the necessary grain to feed this stock
have been any the less if there had not
been a distillery in the land But what
was done with the grain used by the
distilleries 7 Why, that portion that
produces bone, blood and muscle was
giver to the dumb brutes, while that
which produces the devil was reserved
for man. Now | submit that the time
has come when we should change. the
laws touching this matter, so that man
may receive as good treatment as we
have extended to the brute. AS be-
tween the hog and the man let us see to
it that man has at least an equal show.
Of the q ,459, 900 bushels of grain re-
ferred to, Massachusetts furnished 3S,
732 bushels. Less than a pint to each
person.
The opponents of prohibition would
have you forget the cost, be I'M
mindful of your duty to your home,
your country and your God, remember
ing only, as you deposit your ballot,
the great Importance of protecting the
market for your pint of grain. But we
are told that "prOhibitiOn is failure,
and that it produces more liquor selling
than ever before" If this is true it is
exceedingly strange that every distil-
Ter, brewer and saloon keeper is not
working to make it national. | am met
in the eastern states with letter re-
Gently written by my successor to one
c. Compton Burnett, who delivered
lectures in Illinois undr the auspices OF
the whiskey ring of that state, in which
it is stated that during the last year OF
license in Kansas, ''the United States
revenue collector issued only II32 per-
mits to sell Intoxicating liquors."
have in my hand an official letter from
the COLLECTOR referred to who ougbt to
know abont tbis matter dated at 7 aoy.
envortb Kan Nov % 1880 in which
he saws: II have made an examina.
tion of the records in my Office and find
that from Nav |. 1880. nm to tbe end OF
the tax vear Anril IN IssIn (which
covered the last rear ofiicansa) ..tLera
u,ara issued Iozz rat,iI Iionor dooIars
s+omns y sbow;ng a d;scranancI- he.
tween tbe Stotanent of Rnrnatt oHd RI.
facts of s45 The collector also st,tes
that from Nav I to Novemher oo ISSs
(which embraces nearly seven months
of the second wear of nrohibitionl
there were issued ONLY 1864 retail liG.
uor dealers. IL brew wers' and 10 whole.
sale liouor dealers stamps. OF the I564
retail dealers stamps. I think il safe tc
say that at least 36l were taken ont bl
DRUGGISTS. who alone. under our laws
are authorized TO sell intoxicatino Ho.
uors for medicinal, scientific and me.
chanical purposes. Add to this 364 nj
least 200 stamps procured by partie,
who have since been prosecuted. con.
victed and their places of busines,
closed. and if leaves NOT more thar
1000 places in Kansas where intoxicat
ing liauors are sold. either openIv or OF
the sly, in violation of law, giving IL,
ONLY one such place TO every 1000 q
our population while Massachusetts
under license. has one TO about ever,
$50 of her ponulation.
II will be observed. too. that probi
bition has closed 81 of the 81 brewer
and IL of the 30 wholesale IiauOr hOus
es, and it has driven the last illicit dis
tillery from the state. The tax paid (,
the United States government bv Mas
sachusetts in 1881 on Intoxicating li0
uOrs. under license. was eouaI to abon
81 20 ner canita while in Kansas nm
dor nrohibition II wos on1,- n fractio,
over , cents nor canita TLe Letter +,
Rnrnett also savs: g0Tbere We're I,
more prisoners in the Kansas Peniten
tiarv the first wear of prohibition thai
, there were the last wear of local optiOl
and license.n have with me. omen t,
tbe insnection of any citizen dflicio
, communications from the warden an,
chanlain of the nenitentiarv. in whicl
if is stated that 300 prisoners wer
sent from the state courts TO the peni
f Tertiary for the calendar wear 1884
against only 183 for tbe calendar vea
1891 eigbt montbs of which was n1de
nrobibifion' sbowino n difference a
fO7'
l The convict populatiop in the peni
, Tertiary March II. 1867 was "a |
r continued to increase at an averaq