The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1885-12-05
PROHIBITION AGAIN REASONED.
BY b. NJ. CROWLEY.
(Concludcd)

orial, liquor was never made or sold.
The two Archiepiscopal dioceses of
York and Canterbury are divided
into parishes, in large number of
which the sale of Intoxicating drink
is prohibited, In that of Canter-
bury alone, such prohibition parishes
number over two thousand. About
twenty years ago, when the evils of
the liquor business were first scri-
ously discussed in the British Par
lament, the clergy of the Church of
England in convocation assembled,
in petition invoking legislative
interference, drew the attention of
Parliament to this fact, and invited
a comparison between the morality
of prohibition and non-prohibition
parishes. So much for the age of
the principle.
l know of several centers of popu-
lation founded in England and Aus
tralia on the prohibition plan. Visit
ors to Sydney know the pretty sub
urban borough of Woollahra, about
square mile in extent, in which the
proprietor, Sir Daniel Cooper, will
not permit liquor making or selling,
and the effect can be seen at 4
glance by the contrast this little
Eden presents to its adjoining Dor
oughs where liquor is sold.
The value of prohibition on
large scale can best be estimated
from its results in the State of
Maine, where it has been in force
for about thirty years. quote the
following, probably from the pen of
Horace Greeley, showing what was
thought of the Maine law in the
ffties. Under the heading "Pro-
hibitory law" the New York zriJ-
me had the following editorial on
Oct. 8, 1S53:-
''The Maine law or Prohibition
is necessary result of the progress
of the age-a worlds law which
broke out in Maine, by one of those
apparently accidental circumstances
which so often give rise to a uni
versal movement, but which must
have come forth somewhere else if
not there. Those who would stay
its progress might as well under
take to abolish the fundamental
truths of mathematics and chem
istry."
The same paper had the following
in an editorial on Dec. II, 1852 =
''The reasons for absolute Pro-
hibition may be briefly summed up
as follows:--
81. 1t is impartial.
80. 1t rests on a clear moral
basis.
''3. 1t can be enforced.
''4. Itembodies no new principle.
''5. 1t (the Maine law) does its
work.
''6 1t is popular
l quote the following from ex-
Governor Dingley, of Maine, who is
known to be reliable man. He
has long been the conductor of one
of the best newspapers published in
the United States. For State nears
it is almost unequaled. This gives
assurance that he fully understands
the subject. In answer to the state
ment of man who professed to be
acquainted with the failure of the
Maine Law Mr.. Dingley said: =
1.-The charge of gentlemen inter-
ested in the liquor interest, that,
Prohibition is a failure in Maine,
has been disproved too often to call
for the repetition in detail of the
of1inial statistics so often published
by temperance papers, but studiously
ignored by those who stand as the
defenders of the dram-shop. 1t is
certainly surprising that the liquor
interest should everywhere manifest
such bitter hostility to prohibition il
it fails to interfere with the liquor
traffic. The published proceedings
OF the Liquor League and the
Brewers Congress, and even the
speech of Mr.. Clausen denouncing
prohibitory laws, afford most con-
elusive evidence that Prohibition in
Maine, as we'll as in q hundred coun-
ties in Georgia, does seriously dimin-
ish the sale of liquors. Two years
ago statistics were obtained of arrests
for drunkenness in Maine during the
preceding years, and it was ascer.
tanned that they averaged only foul
to every thousand of the population
and these were mainly in the cities
where Prohibition drives nearly al
the dram selling and drunkenness
The arrests for drunkenness in the
cities of Maine were 2,468, but il
the remaining 486 towns, with ;
population of 504,2 1858, only 1874
1t is noticeable that the ratio O
criminals diminishes, as rule, il
proportion to the extent that Prohi,
bition is applied to a State. 1t il
noticeable also that while the ratio