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abolishing it. And so in respect to the evil under consideration. If the laws diminish the evil it is all that can fairly be demanded of them. It is certainly outrageous to demand that laws prohibi- tory of the manufacture and sale of intoxicating drinks shall abolish the evil when we do not expect laws against any other evil to do anything more than to diminish it, approximate its abolition. Now the question comes, "Do these laws diminish the evil?" I answer. Yes. The facts prove this beyond controversy. In 1874, the laws of the State of Illinois rendered it possible for the little city of which I was then a resident [Monmouth] to establish absolute prohibi- tion, and, through the energetic action of half a dozen earnest Avomen, it did it. Every saloon was closed. There was no open saloon in that commu- nity. And what was the result ? We were told that capital would leave our city; we were told that busi- ness would leave us ; that the people would not come there to buy or sell ; that houses would be hauled off to the prairies for farm dwellings; that grass would grow in the middle of the streets ; and then we were told in the same breath, men not noticing the con- tradiction, that it would do no good, for there would be as much drinking as ever. Well, what was the result? From that time dated