The St. Louis Globe- Democrat quotes some figures, Bhowing that, while Portland, Me, with a population of 30,000 aud a . prohibitory law, furnishes 1800 arrests for drunkenness annually, St. Louis, with a population of 350,000 and but little legal restraint on the. sale of liquor, exhibits only 20,000 arrests within a year for the same cause, and adds : "If all the results of • thirty years of prohibition is the result shown in Portland, we do not want any of it." Conditions^ being the same, the difference is a trifle in favour of St; Louis, but when it ia . remembered that. 'Maine is the hotbed of . prohibitory agitation and legislation and the lair of all the iems on the subject that have b warmed over the country for a lifetime, Portland ia nowhere in comparison with St. Louis in point of results. It is surprising that so much time, toil, and money should have been spent to show that men cannot be bullied into sobriety, and that morals of every sort flourish best where men are left fr£e to adopt or,rejec.fc them, and, then held repponei. b]» lor wbftUoilowß.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XVI, Issue 123, 25 May 1881, Page 3
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188Page 3 Advertisements Column 1 Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XVI, Issue 123, 25 May 1881, Page 3
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