Facts In Favor Of Prohibition

ForTHK Register: People who read only papers publighed in the interest of those who oppose prohibition, seem to be -ery ignorant of the facte ag found in the pubücations of the national temperance society. There we learn that wherever it has had a fair trial, it ha8 been enforced as well as any other criminal law. A few cages will serve to Ilústrate: Thirty-8ixyearsago,there were twentygeven dislillerics in Maine. Now there are none, and no open saloons. A prohibitory amendment lately carried by nearly 47,000 majority - a good answer to the statement that "prohibition dosn't prohibit" in that state. A state temperance convention in Kansas unanimously adopted the following : "Arter five years' trial, we find that the wholesale liquor trade within the state hag almoKt ceased." "The sale .i liquor as a beverage has been imraensely diminished." "The open dram shop is almost entirely gone." More than fifty editora representing fifty of the leading newspapers of lowa, recenily signed the following document : "The undersigned members of the lowa prefs excursión to the Pacific coast, have found one report here which is urjust to the state whkh we love and honor. It ig that the etatute incorporated in ita laws, prohibitine the common sale of intoxicating liquorg as beverages is not and connot be executed, Representing different parts of the gtate, we teetify that the prohibitoryg tatute,consideriog the short time since itwas enacted, is as well enforced throughout the gtate generally, as other laws, and it is daily prowing stronger in public sentiment, and will become the permanent policy of the state. We ask the attention of the pregs of the Pacific coast to this correclion ofe roneoug and unfair statements." A lurüier testimony of the good result of tbe law was the unanimous statement a few days ago at a meeting of sheriffs frotn 70 countieg in Iowa, that the court expenses had dimini8hed 50 per cent. under probibition. In Gorgia "there ar one hundred and one couuies under prohibition and the universal testimony comes that business has increased, labor improveri, and every material interest prospered." These facts coming from the various counties, largely mfluenced the people of Atlanta, who gave a majority vote for prohibition. January 12, Í88G, Canon Farrar said in LondoD, "I had the great happiness to visit the Illinois Pulhnan City. There I saw a population of upwards to 2500 people, self respecting, happy, singularly enriched with all the blessingg of civilzation, with a beautiful church, with an admirable library, and ome of the very best schools in the whole of Illinois ; uo city government, no pólice; and (on the auLhonty of Judge Portei) with not a single arrest during a rpace of twenty months. Ae long ago ar. 1855 Gov. Dutten ot Coanecticut gaid: "There is scarcely an open grog shop in the state, the jails are fast becoming tenantless, and a delightful air oí seienity is everywhere enjoyed." Greeley, Colorado, founded upon the same principies as Vineland, N. J., has a miscellaneous population of about 3000, and there is not a liquor shop allowed in the place. There aje no poor, no pólice needcd; and prohibition has been not ouly a great success but a great blessing. A fair was held shortly after the colony was founded, and $91 realiz d, which was put nto a poor fund. Two years and a half passed, andthere'stillremained $84 in hand, $7 only having been used for the support of the poor. The above cited casss from BUtheritic sources sufficiently show what prohibition has done in other placen, both east aud west The Srst prohibitory law in Michigan was abuodantly endorsed by the people. If the majority in iu favor in 18Ö1 was five or thirty thousand; and the people having since been thoroughly educated these 36 yearg up to the standard of complete prohibition, the propoged constituuonal amendment will pmbably get 50,00D majority next April. The prohibition party of thig rum cursed city is well organized for the spring electioii. Denver; Feb. 18, 1887.