In 1870, Right Hon.

Claude Hamilton said: "At present there is not a single policeman in that district.

The poor-rates are half what they were before, and the magistrates testify to the great absence of crime." In many parts of England and Scotland there is local prohibition, and the uniform testimony as to the absence of pauperism and crime is as unequivocal as that given above.
THE MAINE LAW--ITS COMPLETE VINDICATION.
But it is to the State of Maine, where a prohibitory law has existed for over a quarter of a century, and where prohibition has been put to the severest tests, that we must look for the more decisive proofs of success or failure.
On the evidence which Maine furnishes, the advocates of legal suppression are content to rest their case.

In order to get a brief, but thoroughly accurate and reliable history of the Maine law, we addressed a letter to Hon.

Neal Dow, of Portland, Maine, asking him to furnish us, for this volume, with the facts and evidence by which our readers could for themselves judge whether the law were a dead letter, as some asserted, or effective and salutory.