St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1903-07-29


North Carolina has enacted law re-
stricting the still to only incorporated
towns. The "still" business has $50
stills in North Carolina, II in Alabama,
rs in Arkansas, 70 in Georgia, 1 in
Florida, 2 in Louisiana, 40 in Maryland,
80 in South Carolina, 80 in Tennessee,
in Texas, 1875 in Virginia, and none in
Mississippi. North Dakota defeated re-
submission by vote of 81 to 81.
Minnesota has law requiring all pa
tent medicine to show the amount of al
cohol it contains, and one forbidding
man to give another drink without
license and in Minneapolis the license is
| $1,000.
Tennessee has made good fight.
Large majorities for prohibition were
given in many large towns. Mississippi
has prohibition in So out of rs counties.
In Iowa they passed law last year
! permitting the confinement of confirmed
| drunkards in lunatic asylums. 1t made
little stir, but within eight months 800
alcoholic patients were under restraint
and treatment. An Iowa dispatch says
that inebriates continue to flow into the
state asylums at the rate of about fity-a
month, and that an Iowa court has just
ruled that their constitutional rights are
not violated by their detention. Some OF
the inebriates don't like to be shut up,
but the treatment they get seems to be
humane and salutary. Their liquor is
stopped, and they have to work on
farms, and are encouraged to improve
their habits. When they seem to be cured
they are discharged, and reports says
| that so far about rs per cent of the cases
have so resulted.
| OF the 236 counties in Texas 104-near-
" half-are wholly dry. Of the remain
der, "a are largely dry, very many of
them wholly dry, save the county seat,
and only So are wholly wet. The wholly
dry counties represent population OF
725 816; the partly dry, or, more cor
rectly, largely dry, represent popula-
ton of 1, 492, 729, while the wholly wet
counties represent population of only
725.S16. 1t is therefore safe to say that
three-fourths of Texas is now under pro-
hibition.
OTHER COUNTRIES.
According to the official report of the
Philippine Commission Just received, the
Government licensed 1881 liquor shops
in Manila during the year 1902, besides
l brewery, 8 distilleries. OF these liquor
shops, 83 were wholesale and !, 43O for
the sale of vino, the native drink that the
war department claimed to be vile and
murderous.
The awakening of municipal authori-
ties in Mexico to the perils assailing their
governments show somewhat the growth
| ~ Tho 10
few years. The physicians of the city OF
Mexico unite in condemning the wave OF
alcoholism that has come there with the
American barrooms and their mixed
drinks, there being now in the city 824
barrooms and 1 500 pulque shops, or one
drinking place to every 176 inhabitants.
The result is widespread poverty and
!. misery and an increase in crime. The
federal government is anxious to stop
the free sale of liquor, and so prevent a
growth in the death rate and the decad-
!. ence of the native youth. There is al
most universal approval of the energetic
action of the government.
When Queen Victoria assembled the
throne there were not more than hum
dred abstainers among ministers OF the
various denominations in the United
8 Kingdom; no Bishops, and only about a
dozen members of the medical profession
To-day there are, according to returns
Just issued, two Archbishops, fourteen
Bishops OF English dioceses, many thou
, sand clergymen of other denominations,
. and 800 physicians who are total alb
stainers, moreover, one man in every
three in the army is teetotaler.
Twenty-Five years ago one in ter
youths in England were juvenile alb
stainers, now about one in four, or three
and one-haf millions.
The War Department in Great Britain
i is helping along scientific temperance
,, teaching. In every army school in Eng
land and the colonies this teaching is
.. compulsory since last April. The result:
! have been so satisfactory that the Lon
don School Board strongly urge loca
! school committees to adopt the princi
! pie.
In Canada and in manv of the British
i, Provinces temperance legislation is in ad
vance of the mother country. New Zeal
,, and has the honor Of being the most alb
. stemious country consuming but O.O4s
OF gallon per capita annually.
IN GERMANY.
. The international Temperance Con
: gress recently held in Bremen, has giver
fresh implse to the reform several new
. societies have been formed in tina
: country-some of these have two classes
4 OF membership, the Moderate and tn
= Abstinent, while Others enjoin total alb
:, stinence of spirits. Doubtless time will
: bring them round to total abstinence from
:. all intoxicants. In all these movement
e the present Emperor has taken a practi
n cal interest.
|, In France, marked reaction is taking
4 place against intemperance. Recent
the Parisians woke up one morning t.
- find their city literally placarded wit
~ large posters, on which were printed il
! large letters, 1.-THE Dangers of Alcohol,
- followed by tests in smaller character
:, setting forth the dangers of drink. Wha
!, was most remarkable was that the pos
- ter was not the work of Temperance
: reformers, but was issued officially, an
90 bore the signatures of M. Mesureur, th
:. Director of the Assistance Publique
- (poor relief and of the Chief Constabl
~ of the city.
:, The poster was scathing denuncis
- :. ton of the evils of drink. The followin
= is translation of some of the passages
IN Alcoholism is chronic poisoning whc
90 90 results from the habitual use OF alcoho
~ even when this use does not cause DRUM
40 enress TT &c q n error TO saw that it