THE LIQUOR LAW.
The St. Louis Globe-Democrat quotes some figures showing that, while
Portland, Me, with a population of 30,000 and 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 result of thirty years of prohibition is the result shown in Portland, we do not want any ofit. Conditions being the same, the differance is a trifle in favour of St. Louis, but when it is remembered that Maine is the hotbed of prohibitory agitation and legislation and the lair of all the isms on the subject that have swarmed over the country for a lifetime, Portland is nowhere in comparison with. St. Louis in point of results. _lt 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 free to adopt or reject them, and then held responsible for what follows.
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South Canterbury Times, Issue 2564, 9 June 1881, Page 2
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188THE LIQUOR LAW. South Canterbury Times, Issue 2564, 9 June 1881, Page 2
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