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3. The public sale of intoxicating drinks- should be prohib 

 ited, by an annual vote of the people. 



4. The maintenance of the best schools. 



In a speech before the Legislature of New Jersey last year, 

 Mr. Landis says his temperance regulation was made, not from 

 philanthropy, &quot;but simply from the conviction of its impor 

 tance to the success of the colony. I was not a temperance man 

 myself,&quot; he says, &quot;in the total abstinence sense of the term. 

 In conversation with the settlers, I never treated the subject of 

 liquor-selling as a moral question probably not one tenth of 

 the voters of Yineland are total abstinence men. The law has 

 been practically in operation since 1861, though the Vineland 

 local option law did not pass till 1863. The vote has always 

 stood against license by an overwhelming majority, there being 

 generally from two to nine votes in favor of liquor-selling.&quot; 



In twelve years there was a population of eleven thousand, 

 mostly from New England. Fourteen thousand, and within 

 the last year, twenty-three thousand acres have been added to 

 the original tract. This colony was started just at the com 

 mencement of the civil war, and has paid sixty thousand dol 

 lars of the debt, besides sending its quota to the field. It has 

 built one hundred and seventy-eight miles of excellent roads, 

 twenty school-houses, ten churches, four post-offices, fifteen 

 manufacturing establishments, besides shops and stores, such 

 as would be required by a similar population elsewhere. In 

 the importance of its agricultural productions Landis town 

 ship ranks the fourth in New Jersey. There are seventeen 

 miles of railways on the tract, and six stations. 



If any one would know whether temperance and education 

 are sufficient safeguards against crime, let him read the sta 

 tistics of the police and poor expenses of this settlement for 

 the last six years : 



POLICE EXPENSES. POOR EXPENSES. 



The sheriff of Yineland says, the poor-tax in the township 



