Note and Comment

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Michigan · Apr 22, 1902

THE prohibitory liquor law will, it is said, be the issue in the next State election in New Hampshire. There has long been a prohibitory law in that State, but it has not been enforced, and in Manchester, the leading city, an illegal system of license by payment of fines grew up in its place, sanctioned by the chief of police, and this was maintained for years. Finally, after strenuous efforts by the Anti-saloon League, ex-Governor Goodell secured from the superior court a writ of mandamus commanding the responsible officers to enforce the prohibitory law; and for some weeks, beginning in January last, the law was vigorously carried into effect. After some time, however, the effort was relaxed; and now it remains to be seen what choice the people of the State will make between having the prohibitory law abolished and having it enforced.