The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1885-12-23
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A TEMPERANCE CITY.
Some Results of MillyiIIe's Prohibitory Pol
Icy Stated.

The fullness of time for complete
temperance victory for Millvile came in
1875, when the first effort TO wage a war
in behalf of license failed most inglori
ously. When the election was over, the
Council stood seven to two against license.
by following up the victory at the polls
with legal vigilance, Millville has been
kept free from the rum shop, both legal
and illegal. From considerable &C.
quaintance with local prohibition in vari
Gus towns in several States, after watch
ing the course of temperance events in
this city for year, the writer is forced
to the conclusion that the temperance
policy IS better maintained in Millville
than in any other town, small or great,
with which he is acquainted.
The temperance policy of Millville has
been blessed with good results, moral,
material and mental. The: abolition of
the grog shop was followed by the mental
emancipation Of the city's laboring men.
The downfall of the GROCERY was follow
ed by the upbuilding of the church, and
the city has been blessed morally by the
change. In fact, the lsboring men of
Millville stand above like number of
their brethren, in the matter of inteli-
gence, no matter where found.
To-day two.thrds of the male adult
employees of Whital, Tatum & Co. own
the houses in which they reside, and one
half of all laborers of this manufacturing
city go hone at night to houses all their
own. Upwards of $4,000 are paid into
the Building and Loan Associations of
the city every month, by our laboring
men, which represents only part of the
accumulated savings of Millville's toilers.
When rum was king of the city nearly all
the laboriDg men were tenants at will, and
they did not have the luxurious homes
they now enjoy, and the accounts of their
savings could have been kept on the ends
of their fingers.
The buildings erected In the city this
year represents more than $4,000 in
value; under the license system the an
nnal output for improvements of this
kind would not reach $40, 900. The
character of the buildings has been won
derfully improved, and art and archtcc.
tnre have been observed, since rum ceased
to addle the brains of our citizens.
Many towns in discussing the relative
merits of license and prohibition. look
with wistful eyes as the revenue, and bow
before the gods of Bacchus and Mammon.
When Millyile was supporting four IL
censed hotels and ten or dozen beer
saloons, her revenue from liquor licenses
did not exceed 1900 or $500 per annum.
The revenue derived from the increased
valuation of property which has occurred
to the city since the reputation of license,
amounts to ten times as much as was ever
derived from all the rum shops In the
city.
After the lapse of dozen years of
practically applied local prohibition, the
measure is to day SO popular as to scarcely
possess an opponent, and there is not q
man in the city who would have tho tenn
Gritty to run for any office as a license
candidate. Prohibition in this city pro
hibits, and, what is more, it is q moral,
intellectual and financial blessing to the
laboring man, whose best life and pros
perity began when the rum shops left the
town.-Milleilie Daily Baiietin.