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ing population, at the expense of $4. During the entire year there has been only one indictment, and that a trifling case of battery among our colored population."' A poor place for criminal lawyers! Then the author continues: " This is what prohi- bition does, be it observed, not for a picked band of religious emigrants, or a community of scholars, but for a miscellaneous company of laborers from all parts of this country, and from Germany, France, England, Ireland and Scotland." Therefore it pro- hibits effectually in Vineland. Now, for the very much talked of State of Maine, a State that has tried this as no other State has tried it. Here is the testimony of one of her Governors, who says that: 198 A Busy Life. " The declaration made by many persons that the Maine Law is inoperative, and that liquors are sold freely and in large quantities in this State, is not true. The liquor traffic has been greatly repressed and diminished here and throughout the State, and in many places has been entirely swept away. The law is as well executed generally in this State as other criminal laws,are." Then we have the statement of another Governor, made in 1876: " Maine has a fixed conclusion on this subject. It

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