PROHIBITIVE LEGISLATION.

Evening Star, Issue 4093, 8 April 1876, Page 4

PROHIBITIVE LEGISLATION.

- I t' j. . ;;_ . .u.■ ; t ■> ,i. ■ the ** failure of the • Attempts to suppress inenactments id to be : lpitod' the Wellington ; ‘ Evening in a report presented to the tJuite4;.Sta.tfes Revenue Department, by ita.iown ctfficerß,which. states that ip the State of Michigan, where an absolutely prohibitory law had been put' in force, there were ascertained to be 6,i44; pkoSr ; - m :^fiich', liqudr Vas oil those engaged in the unlawful traffic • waa estimated at LT<,6oo*ooo . sterling per annum. This secret traffic produced worselevils llhan the open sale of diink pn.dferthelicensing system, because mdcif of 1 stuff thus secretly retailed was of. almost pernicious character, so that, while drunkenness was not diminished, tipplers we r te poisoned as well asdemoralised, The law was repealed in favornof an enactment imposing annual - license fees ranging from LS to’ L6O upon persons distilling, or brewing, or retailing spirits or malt . One of • the prominent features ip, the new law is the ; of every publican or liquor deiuSi* to give bonds of not less than - L2OO each, tojje of by the |opal authontite writing, for the . proper and conduct of his house,' ' lb is stated-that the new. law •works Well, \ahd -that' there is no prospect of going, back again to the prohi-bitory-system;- a..-r v