A Man Of Experience

The caiulkl opinión of a broaU niinUed liberal man of wide experience ou an important subject is always valuable. Wu know of no one bttter litted therefore to sjieak intelligentie on temperance and prohibition tlian Hou. P. T. Barnum, a lifc-long temperance man. A recent interview with him Is aa follows: MR. P. T. BABNCM wanseen at hls rooms I (ba Murray Hlll ho!l. II. 's. ml: "Allliough I oiice sturnped Uonnectleut for prohibltion and wlth succes I do nol beüeve in It. It diün't work. The dealers sold without liceos to thelr hearts' coutent, and thlugs were worse ih.in ever. I go for his;h license. I was chuirinan of ttie (.emperttnee committee in tiie Counectlcut Ifgislature about twenty years ugo, and propoMd lliun tli plau of local optlon. But I Hugnested tliere sliould be only ooe liink m place to a pecined uuiuber of voters. At present a majority of the towns in our state voteagalust Itquor xelllng under local optiou, and tliis goes as lar towards reducing the trafflc as we can get. Now, under local oplion. I advocate high liceuse in all cllles where liquor i sold. I would limit tlienumber of lisencea to one for every 5UÜ voters. I ciinsider this a perfectly liberal allowaiice as not iialf or aquarter of those to whom a saloon isallotted would ever enter one. This Mciieine would glve foratown oflu.OüO people tn't-nty driuklng places. Isn t that enough?" " would you dispose of these llcenses?" was asked. 'Wuli.you see, witü licenses redaced in nuniber everybody whodeslre to sell lieiuor In the town would he eager for a license, and I would have the licenses sold at aucllon to the highest bidder, the slartinK price for a liquor liceuse belng $500 or 81.Ö0U, according to the size of the town, and the miuimuin for a beer I ícense fiöO or $500." "Would not the worst kind of ltquor ellers pay the most fora 1 i een se. Mr. Bamum?" "Butif a person of objectlonable characler bids off a tícense I would not have the bid aceepted. Thls sort of scrullny Is Important andlf uu unsultable locatlon Is selected lor llquor selllng I would have the authorilles (lu our state they are the county coramls¦lonanj revoke the llcense connected witli 11, whlch should be resold at auctlon.'' 'The saloon, pure and simple, Mr. Harnum you woukl liketosee play as small a part as posstble? " 'Most assuredly. I.lquor saloons are a iiioüern llivention. No sucli ihins was kuown uh.n 1 was n youtig man. They are au intolerable evll, without une reileemlnt quallty. UntH the giowtli of olTitution eiiiuiiiates thera we niust put tliem uudc-r Mi.ii rula, tiiv.'s ui.l ri'sponalbilltles and wlll tend to decrease the poverty aud crime DOW trai-caljle lo ibera." "What wouUl you ttilnk of the Scandlnavlan la where a town does lts owu llquor I ¦elllug and guards It and allows no one to make a private traille in drink? In other word, It Is a state's business, solely " ' w el'. It mlght do lu Copenhagen or Stockholm, but I doubt whether It would be found practical with us.v I " It Is understood you don't llke the thlrd party movement. Mr. Harnum? " "I goagainst italway. It does more hurt than good. I have been asked to run for president by thls party inore than once, but thu vbole movement uu-ets iny disapprobatlon. 1 shall never give a penny to help liquor sellers tlirough a potitleo-temperance organlzutlnn. I tlnnk the honest temperaucemen who have been caught by it will yet live to see thelr mistake. ' The Wiscousin legislature has passed u law oompdUng all VVisconsin railroadsto issue passes to the membeis of the legis1 iture, elective state ofticers and members of the courts of record. U tliere a conflct of autliorlty b;tveen tlie state of Wboonsin and the U. 8. interstate connnerce bill? Ia order to vote as he shot, the profeisional bunimer wil 1 cast his ballot for the Pro-hibi o y Amendment. All the ¦bootlng he has ever done has been to shoot himself in the neck, and the passage of the mensure willgreatly Inentte his facil t es in thiit diiection.- Lansin HepubTliere will be a reunión of the 26th Mich. Iiif intry at Muskegon on thoGlh of April. That day bjn; choíen In commemoration of the raptan of Gen. LeeN wagon tr:i!n In 18(55, by that regiment. Kut tlicn, thoe litlle events ol the past should not be hioachl np, for th.-y hurt ...- .o...ií;o ui n iiiajoricy ot me gentlemen in power ui Washington. Of course the boyi lelt very p.oud of tlieir victories but the "new South" is very sensitive and dotrt like to liear about them. The marriaire of i Japaoese student at the univn-sitv to ka American girl here last Wednesday evening has eiused same comment In this city. The atmm of the bigb contriicting porties are June K. Kimura, of Aichi Ken, Jmjuui, and Mary M. Gallagher, of this city, lonn.rly of Kust Siginuw, mid the cercmony was perfoimed by Hev. Dr. Ryder, of the congregatiom.l charco. The srrooin is a son of a romer royal phyriefau of Japan, and is a very bnght Itodent attendin? the medical department. He cpeaks Knlish Huently, but snot in good favor with the other Japanese here. The bride, ho resided on Thonipson ttrwt, canie liere with relatives for treilmentat the hospital, where. she met Kimur.,, the meetlns leadini! to Um nurrUm. The coupie will seltle in lus city lor the present, hut will leave t„r Japan, after June, wueii the {fioom gradUate.