Edwards County’s Temperance Success
The inhabitants of Edwards county, Ill., do not support any temperance societies or temperance lecturers, or spend their time talking about temperance. They decided twenty-five years ago that no liquor should be sold in that county, and since that date they have sent but one person to the penitentiary, and he committed a crime while drunk with whisky procured in another county; they support but two or three paupers, and their jail is empty most of the time. Their taxes are thirty-two per cent lower than those of the adjoining counties, and their terms of court occupy three days in the year, while their tax rolls show that they return more property than any other county in the State of equal population. It is said that the inhabitants are unanimously opposed to license under any circumstances. Families from other parts of the State seek homes in Edwards county as a good place to bring up their children. We find these facts stated in an exchange, and commend them to all who know how to reason from facts to conclusions.—Christian Statesman.