The Traffic in Intoxicating Drinks; Its Evils and Its Remedy Or, a Maine Law the Only Hope for England (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1855 Excerpt: ...a most happy influence. It has, if we are to credit the testimony which daily reaches us from different parts of the State, accomplished enough already to call forth the plaudits of thousands, who before its passage and enforcement doubted the expediency of the measure." And says one Newspaper, the Essex County Freeman, "The police themselves are surprised at this sudden and beneficial change. With the diminution of drunkenness our criminal tax diminishes. Our property is more secure, because evil passions are restrained, instead of being stimulated by strong drink. Our streets are more quiet. Our population is more sober. The houses and the homes of hundreds arc the freer, the happier." The Marshal of Salem reported, "There is a decided improvement. There are fewer persons in the Salem alms house now, than there have been for eight or ten years past." The Mayor of Augusta, Maine, said, "The police were usually called out one hundred nights in the year; since the enactment of the law, they have not been called out once." And the Eev. W. Clark of Boston thus writes, "Wherever the Maine Law has heen faithfully executed, or a community has in any other way got rid of the evils of intemperance, attendance upon the Churches and Sahbath Schools has greatly improved, and many of the reformed have beeome christians." Many similar statements have been recently published in a tract issued by the United Kingdom Alliance, in Manchester, entitled, "Facts of the Case, being the Well Authenticated Result of the Maine Law." But if we are asked whether the Maine Law has entirely suppressed drunkenness? we must answer, no the law does not prohibit men from getting drunk in private if they can obtain the drink; it only p...