Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1883-09-21
DOES PROHIBITION PROnIBITI

Thus far attention has been called TO the
effects OF prohibitory Legislation in the
State Of Maine that being the largest area
probably, in which il was ever sought to
enforce the principle Of suppression. That
it has done more to limit and restrict the
liquor traffic In that state than regulation
ever did in tina. or any other country, there
can be no re rtasonnble doubt While il has
not utterly annihilaied the traffic, it has
rendered the business exceedingly disrepu-
table so that none but the "lowest aud vii
est" are engaged in ii. This brand OF
| odium, stamped upon the forehead OF that
execrable business, is worth more to re-
| strain youth from contracting The loath-
some habit OF intemperance than the re-
clsmation OF unnum bered drunknrls. 1t
is n great and satisfactory success as it is n
| necessary aptecedent condition to total
suppression.
But that is not all-outSide Of the cities
and large towns, it has Substantially blolted
out the dram shop. Senator Frye says
I'm all the country portions OF the State
where, twenty years ago, there was gro.
Gerry or tavern at every four corners, and
within circuit of two miles mnpainted
houses, broken windows, neglected farms
poor school houses, broken hearts and
homes, IL has banished almost evcry sucl
grocery and Tavern, and introduced peace
plenty, happiness and prosperity" Thi
comes from high authority and must con,
mand the graduation of every lover o
humanity. Prohibition does prohibit AM
why should not Ohio, through the sam
means, realize the same blessings2
But let us turn our attention to the eI
/, fects of prohibition in areas OF less extent.
Q vINELAND-NEw JERSEY.
u Thereis probably no better illustratio
n of the workings of prohibition than is pr,
IS founded in 1851 by Charles X. Lands.
n every deed was inserted the provision, th
~ If the purchaser or any one claiming ur
! der him, should sell or suffer to be sold ar
'e intox icating liquors upon the premis
70 conveyed, the title should become null N
b. void.
I'd The city has population Of 10000;
has 20 school houses, Is manufactures,
churches, but not single grog shop. A
solute prohibition of the liquor traffic
4" the law of the city. What is the resu
n- Mr.. Curtis, the marshal, and overseer
TN the poor, IN n recent report saws:
20 although we have population of ]
,s- 600 people, Cor the period Of six mont
ed no settler or citizen of Vineland has
ara ceived relief at my hands as overseer
n the poor. Within seventy days there !
-, been only one care among what we c.
'u the floating population, at the expei
as of S4.
The During the entire year there has be
ne, only one indictment, and that trihi
pt. case OF battery among our colored POI
oI- lntion.
$50 few are the fires in Vinel4nd Il
49,, we have no need of fire departme
- There has been only one house burr
'"e in year, and two slight fires, which W
Ind soon put out
ed. 1--WE practically have no debt, and
ing taxes are only one per cent on the '
rch uation.
,ly "The police expenses of Vinel;
md amount to $75 year, the sum paid
=, me, and our poor expense mere tri
+" II ascrlbe this remarkable state
things, so neatly approaching the gol
nial age, to the industry of our people and
ini- Absence OF King Alcohol"
rent To this may he added, that the con,
Sd imposed upon the marshal, the duties
ZION street commissioner, so as to make
OF earn his salary. Also, that never was
one man sent to the peniteniiary Il
"ud "ue Vineland, and that was the founder OF
and town, tor killing man during sud
ave alteration, growing out OF BUSH
ears transaction.
ded Compare this with a town having
and censed dram shops and situate not far +
hose the above.
any The New York Erening Post, unti-pr
oia' bition. makes the following staten
ci6c "Yonkers. N. Y, with population
at about $4,000 has 145 saloons, an inc
gold from saloon licenres of about Sis 900,
ON it's police and poor tax amount to $53
luon per annum. Vineland, N. j., with a
s ulation about the same, with no sal
vsrv has an annual expense for police and
the OF S476. The man who can see no di
heir ence in such figures is as blind asa b
sive Which OF these is the preferable town?
bibe But let us look at another no license tov
ga day oREELY, COLORADO,
and like VIneland, was founded upon TEN
over ance principles with the same condilio
4 to deferance in Its little deeds. AT the
they report we have from il, II contained
lrht. cellaneous population of about 5000,
gh,. not drunk shop was allowed in the 4
og A gin mill was started the first year
,bsir was burned down in broad daylight. S
/, do time after. one was started five miles
had town and one night, the prairie was
I at tised with all the liquor it contai
ma Meanwhile several churches, Prssbylei
v. Baptist, Methodist an Episcopal; I
schools two banks, sevei al extensive st
two weekly newspapers and one mon
and two literary societies have been es
8. lished and are in fourishing condi
!" There are no poor and no police is ne
live. and prohibition has done its perfect v
ned. A fair was held moi long after the co
moi was founded and $8l realized, which
put into "poor iund." Two and a
'pPy years passed and $s4 remained unex pc
not and no call for ii.
not There are number of such towns il
"a or west and they greatly excel in mat
: =, prosperity and good morals the liquor
% VI ing towns In the same region.
y oil Turn we now to our own town. Pc
sson burg contains about 1000 inhabitants
eing has twelve saloons.
born Wessll know that the great bulk o
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