PROHIBITION IN AMERICA.

Manawatu Standard, Volume X, Issue 1498, 4 November 1885, Page 2

PROHIBITION IN AMERICA.

The American Press continues to furnish from time to t?me ; widely divergent aocountw of the working* of 'prohibitive* liquot Jaws. The pro&i h'ibitionists are frequently oohfi-qnte^ with facts and figures %o show tha^ their system has failed. One case that was recently me'iitumed vW.as -that; o& the town of Topekai' Kansas.^ 27 saloons were shut up/sjuid thg-ijrro-hi'oitionist contended that they had .-stqpped the^gale^pf j-ljO:9ftO ?pi B iltW Q&| lliquor. JLateY.wretur.ns^hfawed,niow-« ever, that 31 licensed drug stores had -taken-tho-plaoe of the e 27. salooiw;artd l 11*80; J pints of whiskey had there -teen sold m place ot the former -lO^OOi r- To-thi* the=Saa— Pranersco' GaU adds another instance, that of (low^'akd' remarks :-^*< Xn'^atiStiite prohibition by statue was m existence on the ;4th of July one year/ 1 A Davenport paper took pains to collect statistios^rpm 25, of the larger tow,ns of tlie State concerning its operation's. These statistics were gathered byj mayors and ,town clerks, wftli-the )any ( noxed shqwing : — The entire number of saloons now openly m operation isj 916, as against 770 '■ before the law' came into, effecti' In ! one .town the ] increase had been from 50 to 75, m! aniDther, from 6^. to '190, andiinU'tillanottier; -from? M^o^lSO^ 1 Ui^Kr. the old law the .councils of these different 1 , .towns hatee? fixed* licenses at figures ranging from 250d0l to 2000dol. In some places this produced a revenue of nearly 30,0p,0d01, which%as entirely thrown away Whotv the Stateto.k from communities the right to issue licenses at any , yrice, or with anyVestrictibnSjhdweverWevere " On this state .of affairs theq paper al- ! luded to remhrk's : -'" The general | opiuiou favours the rp peul of a law Swhich, has thus def6ate 4 d4^jO:W»ignaß, and* L wiucti has ' (iemonstrated so thoroughly that' prohibition does not prohibit.^;!; o; v->:P'"..-lf .iAs