THE LIQUOR LAWS OF ALL THE STATES.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VII, Issue 2135, 2 November 1885, Page 2

THE LIQUOR LAWS OF ALL THE STATES.

A special effort has been made to obtain a statement of the methods adopted in the several States and Territories of tlie Union in dealing with the liquor question, and answers were received from the several Secretaries of State as follows

Ironclad prohibition States with constitutional provision against the manufacture and sale of intoxicating liquors: Vermont, Maine, lowa, and Kansas, 4. Prohibition State, but no constitutional provision: New Hampshire, 1. States in which prohibition Has been tried, but, either for lack of success or change in public sentiment, changed to milder methods: Massachusetts, Connecticut, Indiana, Michigan, and Wisconsin, States and Territories having genoral and stringent license or "Local Option" laws: Rhode Island, New York, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, South Carolina, Arkansas, Illinois, Minnesota, Nebraska, Dakato and Washington, 11. States allowing "local option" by special act of legislature; North Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, and Mississippi^ States and Territories havingW!PSieral laws, and where no special attention has been given to the subject; New Jersey, Maryland, Virginia, Louisiana, Kentucky, Ohio, Missouri, Nevada, Colorado, Arizona, Montana, New Mexico, Wyoming and Utah—l 4. States and Territories from which no replies have been sent: Florida, Texas, Tennessee, California, Oregon, Idaho, and Utah— 1 ?. The unique position occupied by Ohio compels us to; classify this\state as we have, though it can hardly be said that no special attention has been paid to the anbject of temperance in Ohio, especially of late years. The law against treating in Nebraska, it is only fair to add, is founded on a sensible idea. How much of the drunkeness and vices of large American cities is due to treating ? In this respect we are fools. In no country in the world is the custom carried to such an extent. The severity of prohibition j laws may be best studied in Mr St. John's ,* State, where even physicians haveto tak# an oath once in five years that they will not prescribe liquors, unless absolutely necessary, as a medicine, In Michigan and Minnesota, and perhaps some other Statos, effort is made to create a temper' ance sentiment; in the first-named State by compulsory teaching in all publie schools of the effect of drink on the human system, In the latter named State to sell a pupil of a school or seminary drink is a misdemeanor, The holding of saloon' keepers as responsible for paupers chargeable on the town, when it can be. proved from whom they obtain liquor, soems to be peculiar to Nebraska.