How Prohibition Works.

Manawatu Herald, 16 May 1893, Page 3

How Prohibition Works.

It was fondly hoped by the advocates of total abstinence that Mildura, a model town brought into existence by the extensive irrigation works in the Wimmera district (Victoria) would prove a shining beacon and lead to other towns in Australia prohibiting the issue of hotel licenses within their boundaries. Alas, for the vanity of human calculation's! Mildura, instead of being a .model town, because . no license to sell intoxicating liquor is issued there, bears the unenviable character of being without exception the most drunken place in Australia ; The other day the police brought up no less thay forty persons: before the Mildura R.M. Court on charges ot " sly grog " selling, . and obtained convictions against them, the total fines totting up to £250. A visitor t/6 Mildura lately wrote to the Melbourne Argus to the effect that more intoxicating liquor is drunk in that prohibition town, where no licensed hotel is permitted, than in any place of the same size he had ever been in— new rushes not ex cepted ! Something more than Prohibition is evidently required to stop some people from enjoying their liqaor, and it is equally certain no legal enactment can be made drastic enough to prevent people getting liquor who wish to do so. The Prohibitionists have still to discover a practical method of en forcing their views upon an unwilling public— Exchange.