prisons prove that criminal prosecutions are rapidly diminishing in number. Some jails are almost tenantless. 33. RESISTANCE TO THE LAW UNPOPULAR.-The law has been thoroughly executed with much less difficulty and opposition than was anticipated. In no instance has a seizure produced any general excitement. Resistance to the law would be unpopular; and it has been found in vain to attempt to set it at defiance. The longer the beneficial results of the law are seen and felt, the more firmly it becomes established. 34. Sanctity of Domestic LifE.—The ridiculous idea so industriously circulated, that the sanctity of domestic life would be invaded, has been shown to be a mere bugbear. The home of the peaceable citizen was never before so secure. The officers of the law have no occasion to break into his dwelling, and he is now free from the intrusion of the lawless victims of intemperance. STATEMENT OF HON. HORACE GREELEY. 35. MAINE LIQUOR LAW TRIUMPH.-Connecticut only passed the Maine Law last spring. We struggled up there through three years of disaster, but we finally succeeded. There were many predictions that it would not be passed, and if passed, would not be signed by the Governor; and if signed by the Governor and made a law, could not be sustained. But we knew the law would triumph-that it would not be broken down. Does any man say so now? Why, let "Connecticut" be spoken, be but whispered among a dozen Anti-Maine Law men, and it disperses them just as though a bombshell had fallen among them STATEMENTS OF REV. J. W. TURNER, OF PORTLAND. 36. TRICKS OF THE EX-RUMSELLERS.-It is really amusing to see how very sensitive some men are, especially when they happen to be on the wrong side of any great public question. I have been traveling considerably in "the land of steady habits," and am perfectly amazed to see what a good work the former landlords of rum-selling taverns are doing for our noble cause, and to see how hard they toil to accomplish it. was going over a familiar road with my own conveyance on a warm summer day, and would drive up to a public house, where I had been in the habit of watering my horse-but the pump-handle is carelessly left out; to another, the chainpump is nailed fast; to another, the large watering-trough is completely fenced round. By this time I understood the game. I remembered it was the first of August, and the "new law" was going into effect with a manifest demonstration. Never mind, said I, this will all help the law. Thank God, the brooks are free! I just looked out for them, and had plenty of water without the rum, and became altogether independent of those public benefactors, who would punish the poor horse because they can not longer tempt and ruin man. But their day of reckoning comes, and unless I en prisons prove that criminal prosecutions are rapidly diminishing in number. Some jails are almost tenantless. 33. RESISTANCE to the Law UNPOPULAR.—The law has been thoroughly executed with much less difficulty and opposition than was anticipated. In no instance has a seizure produced any general excitement. Resistance to the law would be unpopular; and it has been found in vain to attempt to set it at defiance. The longer the beneficial results of the law are seen and felt, the more firmly it becomes established. 34. SANCTITY OF DOMESTIC LIFE.-The ridiculous idea so industriously circulated, that the sanctity of domestic life would be invaded, has been shown to be a mere bugbear. The home of the peaceable citizen was never before so secure. The officers of the law have no occasion to break into his dwelling, and he is now free from the intrusion of the lawless victims of intemperance. STATEMENT OF HON. HORACE GREELEY. 35. MAINE LIQUOR LAW TRIUMPH.-Connecticut only passed the Maine Law last spring. We struggled up there through three years of disaster, but we finally succeeded. There were many predictions that it would not be passed, and if passed, would not be signed by the Governor; and if signed by the Governor and made a law, could not be sustained. But we knew the law would triumph-that it would not be broken down. Does any man say so now? Why, let "Connecticut” be spoken, be but whispered among a dozen Anti-Maine Law men, and it disperses them just as though a bombshell had fallen among them STATEMENTS OF REV. J. W. TURNER, OF PORTLAND. 36. TRICKS OF THE EX-RUMSELLERS.-It is really amusing to see how very sensitive some men are, especially when they happen to be on the wrong side of any great public question. I have been traveling considerably in "the land of steady habits," and am perfectly amazed to see what a good work the former landlords of rum-selling taverns are doing for our noble cause, and to see how hard they toil to accomplish it. I was going over a familiar road with my own conveyance on a warm summer day, and would drive up to a public house, where I had been in the habit of watering my horse-but the pump-handle is carelessly left out; to another, the chainpump is nailed fast; to another, the large watering-trough is completely fenced round. By this time I understood the game. I remembered it was the first of August, and the "new law" was going into effect with a manifest demonstration. Never mind, said I, this will all help the law. Thank God, the brooks are free! I just looked out for them, and had plenty of water without the rum, and became altogether independent of those public benefactors, who would punish the poor horse because they can not longer tempt and ruin man. But their day of reckoning comes, and unless I en |