Prohibition

The Register has never been sanguine of an exceedingly strict enforcement of a prohibitory law against the saloon. We have repeatedly Baid that prohibition of the saloon would not bring the millenium, or words to that effect. Aside from all that, it can be maintained that prohibition is the beet way for society to regúlate the saloon. Just as soon as a majority of the people look upon any instrument of vice as a great wrong, it should be prohibited. That is a principie which will stand. If society will not prohibit, we are willing that the next best thing, - severe taxation,- shall be resorted to; bilt t is with no idea that it is economically a good thing to tax the saloons. We would tax the saloons when we couldn't prohibit, but would prohibit if we could. As to the enforcement of the prohibitory law against saloons, we see no difference between it and the enforcement of a prohibitory law against gambling dens. Prohibition will not stop the saloon business entirely, any more than it stops the gambling business, but it will drive it into cellars, garrets, and dark rooms. Most people who talk abont the non-enforcement of the prohibition of saloons seem to think that if the saloon business is not stopped entirely, prohibition is a failure. They onght to learn what prohibition means. We prohibit many evils without stopping them, bat it is best to prohibit them just the same, and trust for as strict enforcement as possible, and for its educating influence on rising generations. We hope that those of our readers who want the saloon wiped out, but who fear that prohibition will not do the work, will, if possible, give it a chance to do all it can. The quarterly meetings of the State board of health are attraeting great attention from the press. The work of the office in aasisting local boards of health in restricting diphtheria, scarlet fever, and typhoid fever ; the investigations into the Smead system of disposing of excreta in school-houses ; Dr. Vaughan's tyrotoxicon and typhoid fever experimenta; and Dr. Kellogg's work with gasoline, are very interesting gubjects.