In Vermont, a prohibitory law has existed for over twenty-three years.

In some parts of the State it is rigidly enforced; in others with less severity.

Judge Peck, of the Supreme Court says: "The law has had an effect upon our customs, and has done away with that of treating and promiscuous drinking.

* * * _In attending court for ten years, I do not remember to have seen a drunken man."_ In St.Johnsbury, where there is a population of five thousand, the law has been strictly enforced; and the testimony in regard to the town is this: "There is no bar, no dram-shop, no poor, and no policeman walks the streets.

It is the workingman's paradise." Connecticut enacted a prohibitory law in 1854.