Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1894-01-22
v. G. 7. u. COLUMN.
lotto: ssGod and Home and Native Land"
HAT PROHIBITION HAS DONE
FOR MAINE.

|. We had many distilleries, seven
which and two breweries were in
5 city. Now there is not one in the
tie, nor has there been for many
hrs.
|. At the same time a great quanti-
of West India rum was imported;
lame to us by the cargoes, many of
m every year. Now not even one
hcheon is imported, nor has there
en for many years.
/ Before prohibition rum shops
Re everywhere in the state, whole
b and retail, no hamlet SO small or
Ered but the rumseller found it and
|hblished a grog- shop there. Now,
more than three fourths of the
tie, having three fourths of our
bulation, the grog- shop is unknown.
entire generation has grown up
Ire, never having seen a saloon or
effects of one.
|. The quantity Of liquor now sold
| the state is not one-twentieth SO
at as it was before prohibition. In
Ftland, the largest city, the quaint
Bold is not one hundredth part so
| CHI as it was, the city being twice
ger than it was at the time the law
B made.
Our people used to spend in
bng drink the entire valuation of
state in every period Of twenty
rs, as the nation is now doing in
| ry period of thirty five years. But
one million dollars will far more
pay for all the liquor struggled
B the state and sold in violation of
Our state saves annually, direct
md Indirectly, more than twenty
lions of dollars, which but for pro-
tion would be spent, lost and vast
n drink.
Maine is now one of the most
6perous states in the Union; but
pre- the adoption of prohibition
as undoubtedly the poorest.
The whole face Of the state has
a changed for the better. Before
law there were cons picuous indi-
ons everywhere of dilapidation,
hrift and decay in shabby church
shabby school houses, shabby
Filings, neglected and shabby barns
there is nothing of all that, but
fywhere are seen conclusive
Pfs of industry, activity, enter
e and thrift, no dilapidated or
lected buildings anywhere, either
lie or private, but everywhere un-
taxable proofs of an Industrious
thrifty people.
In 1884, after an experience of the
PITTS of prohibition for thirty three
IS, that policy was put into our
Btitution by a popular vote, the
Drity being 47,O75, the affirmative
being three times larger than the
htive. There can be no more con-
ing proof than this, that prohibi-
in Maine has not been "failure"
he distillers and brewers declare
be, but On the contrary a great
cess.
he above is the contents of the
graph letter of Gen. Neal Dow,
ortland, sent to the Maine Build
pit the Columbian Exposition by
lest of Mrs. L. M. N.Stevens, pres
of the w. @. T. q. of the state. ]
e hope the time is near when the
hibition statute law of Vermont
become part of the constitution.
le city of Chicago has formally &C
ed the bronze fountain presented
temperance boys and girls connect
With the juvenile department OF
Woman's Christian Temperance
bn. 1t is the Willard fountain, and
rs the figure of o sturdy little girl
Ing a cup of water in her out
5ched hands. 1t will stand on a
lsome granite base, which includes
CHS for horses and dogs. The re-
is from dimes earned by children
lis country amount to s1,77S.S So;
e children in Alaska, Africa, Aus
a, Canada, England, Japan, ano
n, have sent enough to make with
r receipts total Of 2,68S.51.
SIS Margaret Irwin, one Of the AS
MT Labor Commissioners Of Eng
reports that in the tailors' work
of the Cooperative Society o.
gov, the women were lately tax
work at less wages than men, il
( usually done by men. The met
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