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In these remaining forty-eight States and Territories of the Union 

 the statistics regulating liquor seem to divide themselves, as to the 

 remedies attempted, into ten heads, as follows : 



I. Abolish all liquor laws except those for revenue. 



H. Example. 



III. Education. 



IV. Government control of all warehousing and sales. 

 Y. Regulation of hours for retailing liquors. 



"VT. Refusal of employment to drinkers. Change of pay-day. 



VII. Personal damage law. 



VIII. Encourage the use of light wines and beers; remove all 

 duties or imposts on food products; quality inspection. 



IX. High revenue national, interstate, or State. 



X. Local option. 



For No. I, pure and simple, we have but a single report, perhaps 

 (as of a frontier State) not exemplary, or safe to guide the more in- 

 terior States, but given exactly for what it may be worth. The 

 Governor of Montana (a State which boasts the bad eminence of 

 having proportionately more liquor-sellers paying license fees than 

 any other State in the Union having, in fact, one licensed liquor- 

 seller to every fifty-five inhabitants) reports as follows: 



" Saloons are run wide open night and day; while there is a 

 great deal of drinking there is very little drunkenness, and one in 

 an intoxicated condition is promptly arrested and fined." One other 

 State, however (Louisiana), has the continental idea that liquor laws 

 are for " revenue only." Louisiana, therefore, has an elaborate ex- 

 cise, guiltless of any suggestion of reformative objects. So far as 

 her statistics go, she is the most temperate State in the Union. 



IT. EXAMPLE. This may be called the apostolic cure the one 

 laid down by the apostle St. Paul (I Corinthians, viii, 13) though 

 we find a prominent English ecclesiastic, Dean Hole, on being asked 

 if he was not aware that people ought to abstain for the sake of 

 their example to others, replied : " I have never seen any one con- 

 verted by example. I have often challenged teetotalers to produce 

 Mr. Jones converted by the example of Mr. Brown, but I am wait- 

 ing for him. I don't see why I should make a fool of myself because 

 others do." I should not deal with the matter quite so summarily 

 myself. Doubtless the example of a thrifty, wholesome, prosper- 

 ous laborer, if left (without exhortation or impertinence of third 

 parties) to work upon his dram-drinking, wretched neighbor, might 

 have its laudable effect: such example not being deprived in advance 

 of its value by the fetters of a written pledge which a man's personal 

 pride might force him to ostentatiously observe or if the exemplary 

 person does not get his living by denouncing liquor or by the coer- 



