PROHIBITION.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1635, 13 August 1887, Page 2

PROHIBITION.

The enforcement of the "blue "lair prohibiting Sunday drinking m Near York has, remarks '• St James Gazette," tutor* ally set the Baloon-keepers to work to fiud meßni of evading it, and the number of persons taken up for druakennen on Sunday m that olty now is slightly In ex--0083 of what it was before the law was pat m operation. When the dealer Urea m the honße where the saloon Is located, he simply given up hfs l{ parlor" to his guests, who imbibe their favorite beverage 1 neated m easy cha : ra, and altogether more comfortably installed than they would bti m the bar. Locksmiths are said to be makirg a harvest m latch keys ; the pro. prietora of the stores finding It convenient to aupply their regular customers' with these articles, In certain cases sidedoori are appearing whore they were never known before. In other case?, again, doora are being made m ( the hack-yard fences, and the thirsty citizen who knowi the ropea reaches the tap-room through the half-way of the adjoining home. In nhort, the law is being evaded as •yatatnatically and as easily as the prohibition laws are evaded In Maine, ia Kansas, or m lowa. The " Kinsas Times " mournfully remarks m a recant number that " there is not a place of any size m Kansas where liquor cannot be obtained os easily as falling off a log, and a greased log at that." Such are the eucoeßsts 0! prohibitive legislation.