The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1885-03-20

law prohibiting the sale or manufacture of
Intoxicating liquors, or Il constitutional
provision prohibiting or regulating the sale
of liquors. Very complete replies Were re
cciyed from most of the States. which I
have condensed as follows:
The States where prohibition laws are
enforced are Maine. (nn which the sale and
manufacture are forbidden under penalty
of $1,000 fine and one years Imprisonment
New Hampshire. Vermont. Ohio, Iowa and
Kansas. In this latter State even doctors
have to take an oath every five years not
to prescribe it to any person unless actually
sick. and then only when really necessary
to their recovery. In North Carolina, South
Carolina. Mississippi, and Kentucky. by
special legislation. prohibition is the Law
i'll some counties
Those in which the majority of the peo-
pie can decide for their county. city or
town, are Rhode Island. Connecticut. West
Virginia, Georgia. Alabama Louisiana.
Michigan, Wisconsin, Illinois and Arkan-
sas. Although Alabama may be consid-
cred a temperance State, and in most of
the counties prohibition laws have been
enacted and enforced, yet a State law for
prohibition. if enacted. could not be en-
forced. as it has been tried in some counties.
The people, feeling they had no voice in
making the law, will not enforce it; but
where they gain it by their own votes. there
is no trouble. In Illinois a woman can re-
cover money from a saloon keeper or his
habitual drunkard. The saloon keepers
are required to keep a list of such.
In Arkansas they vote every two years
for license or no license. II 4 majority
in a county vote for no license. the sale is
prohibited for two years. If a majority
vote for license, it can be sold only in those
townships where there was a majority for
it. But the great lever used by prohib'.
t~ionists in Arkansas is the three-mile law.
By its provisions a majority of the adult
inhabitants (this includes women as well
as men) living within within three miles
of a church or sehoolEouse. by signing and
presenting q petition TO the county clerk.
obtain an order from such court forbiddino
the sale of liquor within such three-mile
limits. This applies to druggists as well
as others. This can be and is done
where counties and townships have voted
in favor Of license. Whole counties have
been affected by it. The license is high in
this State.
In Michigan the effects of alcohol on the
human system is required by Law to he
taught in the public schools. and it is
thought is having a good result. In Mas
sachusetts license for the sale of liquor can
not be granted within four hundred feet of
a public school.
Nebraska has a strict license law with
two novel features. Where any person be-
comes a county or city charge, by reason
of intemperance. a suit may be instituted
by the proper authorities. on the bond of
any person licensed under the State law.
who may have been in the habit of selling
or giving Intoxicating liquors to the person
SO becoming a public charge. This saloon
keeper. in turn, may recover by a similar
action a proportionate part Of said judg-
ment from any or all persons engaged in
the traffic who have sold the pauper liquor.
The other forbids treating in saloons or
other public places.
OF the territories Dakota. Montana Wash
ington and Wyoming have restricted IL
cense laws. In New York, PENNSYLVANIA.
New Jersey, Virginia, Minnesota, Missouri,
Colorado and Nevada the license laws are
rather easy, though Pennsylvania has one
county, Potter, where local option is per-
mitted. Eight states did not reply.
The New Jersey Temperance Associa-
ton have obtained their bannerette. and
ere this, we hope. is in its place at the Ex-
position in New Orleans. 1t is thus de-
scribed: Cream colored satin 36x22 inches
with fringe of gold. The inscription in
letters of blue and gold are as follows:
New Jersey Temperance Teachers Asso-
citation.
YoU LICENSE!
Illustrated by Board of Excise in session.
WE EDUCATE!
Illustrated by a joyous group of children
with books and papers in their hands, MEM
berS of the Band of Hope.
"BEcArsE OF DRUNkENEss THE LAND
MoURNETH."
The illustrations are hand painted in
colors and are very suggestive.
Mrs. NJ. G. Baldwin, Newark, President.
Miss Mary T.. Osborn, Middletown. Sec.
Miss Emma L.. Cadmus, Plainfield, Treas.
Mrs. r, p. Penfield. Plainfield. Pres. Com.
People need not tell me that | am ex-
cited on these questions. | know that /
am. | should be ashamed before God and
man il | were not. There is more in the
public houses of Glasgow to stir The spirit
of a minister than all that Paul saw at
Athens. In my ministry | meet the hor-
rid fruits of these whisky shops. | see
men and women perishing in these pitfalls.
The number of victims is so great that it
oyerwhelms me. My brain is burning. my
heart is breaking. The Church is asleep.
and the world too; and they are hugging
each other. | AN weary with holding in.
| must cry. ! would rather ba counted