A year of its bitter fruit was enough for the people.
SUBMITTING AGAIN TO THE YOKE.
But, strange to say, after all she has suffered from license laws, the old Bay State has again submitted to the yoke, and is once more in the hands of the great liquor interest.

In 1874, she drifted out from the safe harbor of prohibition, and we find her, to-day, on the stormy and storm-wrecked sea of license.

A miserable attempt has been made by the friends of this law to show that its action has been salutory in Boston, the headquarters of the liquor power, in the diminution of dram-shops and arrests for drunkenness.

Water may run up hill in Boston; but it obeys the law of gravitation in other places.

We leave the reader to draw his own conclusions from this extract from the report of the License Commissioners of that city, made February 1st, 1877: "It must be admitted that the business of liquor-selling in this city is, to a very large extent, in the hands of _irresponsible men and women_, whose idea of a license law ends with the simple matter of paying a certain sum, the amount making but little difference to them, _provided they are left to do as they please after payment_.