The Republican journal., 1905-11-30
PROHIBITION vs.. LICENSE.

kew hampshire ana Hon. Perciva
h Clement and Mr.. Clarence J, Fer
|eson of Vermont on the question
|How has the new system of local Oh
han worked in these old prohibitory
Lstts:" The question is one of inter
|stu Maine, where an aggressive move
aren't S to be made against prohibition
|si IN favor of license. The Globe Sc.
atrd for this discussion representative
aru IN opposite sides of the question.
,sa Ntreeter of New Hampshire says
5st the people think we'll of the local
gton law, which has been in operation
c- March 81, 1908. He says that it
3, zen fairly tried and that its admin
.u4,on has been successful; that the
.Aelt of the adoption of the license law
NJ, IN salutary and wholesome.
EyI3ov. Goodell takes the opposite
,ea and says that ''as a rule there
,r been at least twice as many ar
s, Tor drunkenness and crime in H.
y.sr Years as in prohibition years. ="
.ga { finds, after very careful in
h, alton of many years, that no city
. Massachusetts, he has heard from
h, Yer, under any circumstances,
len BILE to show as good results by
h r.lce records under license as un-
4- Inhibition. Referring to the large
sy. produced by the license law,
- ioodell says:
LANCER is that the people will see
-s Uney and 1t will so dazzle their
g-, nat they cannot see the cost of
1eIs, criminals, prisons, jails, aims
and other things caused by the
/. Gus increase of drunkenness with
borders.
IL is the third year of license in
. mt, and this year Hon. Percival
{ ement, who advocates license,
s., lat most of the larger towns
s- license" and generally the small
F voted no" He admits that
yIr are a few large villages in the
-, sJlumn which at the present time
qv The unrestricted sale of liquor
81 lncealed, but says that general
the law is we'll observed"
1e,ler drunkenness has decreased or
3. says it is impossible to determine
,7e,. and concludes: 81 believe that
ntiment in favor of State law
JOS 9 towns and cities to license and
4 lie the sale of Intoxicating liquors
s, EASING in Vermont"
,n The other hand Mr.. Clarence j.
,- son says: That the adoption of
j. cense in Vermont has been pro
.tve of large increasein drunken
~- md disturbances of the public
"a, in the towns known as the wet
a cannot be denied" And he
,tatlStlCS from the home town Of
cement, among others, to prove
sertlon. So great has been the
aase of the arrests for drunkenness
Vrrage increase of 43 per cent in
n lans-that the jailS are INSULT
Fl nd new ones of greater capacity
t built if present conditions con
For example the Chittenden
jail, built for -, had So prison
I'D has been condemned by the
lury of the county and denomi-
(. " them to be as bad as 'Russia's
an prisons" In conclusion Mr..
son says; Vermont is heartily
high license, and he who affirms
contrary does so for either per-
or political reasons"
lament in this connection are some
tics collected by the Portland
ag Express to show how enforce
- affects Portland. The Express
0 months this year ending Nov
lSt, there were 602 less arrests
toXication than there were for
responding period last year and
e seven months from April 1st,
rf- rave been $50 less arrests than for
r me period last year. These fig
#, re from the records of the police
ia-ment and include all those ar
''"t for intoxication whether put be-
s t court or not. There are very
laE who do not get arrested, but as
+ 9ndition prevails all the time it
+e not affect the comparison.
10 addition the police officers say
rre las been much less intoxication
J luch less disorder since the open
9.l was closed, and summer visitors
'r remarked on the cleanliness of
p ~ and of the absence from the
erts Of drunken men. The Express
y further that the law has been
We strictly enforced than ever before
d lat it is practically impossible to
.a liquor except from kitchen dives
. al