[Grappling with the Monster by T. S. Arthur]@TWC D-Link bookGrappling with the Monster CHAPTER XVIII 10/37
One constable, who is also overseer of the poor, is sufficient to maintain public order.
In 1875, his annual report says: "We have practically no debt.
* * * The police expenses of Vineland amount to seventy-five dollars a year, the sum paid to me, and our poor expenses are a mere trifle." In Potter County, Pennsylvania, there has been a prohibitory law for many years.Hon.John S.Mann says: "Its effect, as regards crime, is marked and conspicuous.
_Our jail is without inmates, except the sheriff_, for more than half the time." Other instances of local prohibition in this country could be given, but these are sufficient. Bessbrook, a town in Ireland of four thousand inhabitants, has no liquor-shop, and whisky and strong drink are strictly prohibited.
_There is no poor-house, pawn-shop or police-station._ The town is entirely free from strife, discord or disturbance. In the county of Tyrone, Ireland, no drinking house is allowed.
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