The bases of the temperance reform: an exposition and appeal./ With replies to numerous objections. By Rev. Dawson Burns.

1 66 The Suippression of thMe Liquor Traffic.
and in proportion to the thoroughness of the experiment,
the results have been all that were predicted. Where, as
in Vineland, a district of New Jersey (not a Maine Law
State), the sale of liquor has been continuously and rigidly excluded for a term of years, the effects have been
such as might well excite the envy of less favored regions. But we need not travel outside even our own
island to see what the absence of the drink-shop secures
in the way of sobriety, order, comfort, and comparative
prosperity. A Committee of the General Assembly of
the Church of Scotland reported, in I849, on the causes
of intemperance in that country; and in this report it is
said: "The returns made to your Committee's enquiries
clearly prove that the intemperance of a neighborhood is
uniformly proportioned to the number of its spirithouses: so that, wherever there are no public-houses nor
any shops for selling spirits, there ceases to be any intoxication." The Committee of the Lower House of the
Convocation of the Province of Canterbury, charged
with a similar commission in i868, extended its enquiries
over the counties of England and Wales, included in that
ecclesiastical division, and their Report states: "Few, it
may be believed, are cognizant of the fact-which has
been elicited by the present enquiry-that there are at
this time within the province of Canterbury upwards of
one thousand parishes [I397], in which there is neither
public-house nor beer-shop; and where, in consequence of
Athe absence of those inducements to crime and iauzierism,
according to the evidence before the Committee, the intelligence, morality, and comfort of the people are such as
the friends of temperance would have anticipated." No
fewer than twenty-five pages of an Appendix (JJ) are
filled with illustrative testimonies on this point. The
parishes and other places so situated number 1,397, with
an aggregate population of 222,258. A large number of
places in the province of York, embracing all the North