LIQUOR dealers, and others interested in the liquor traffic, are making a great outcry against the “sumptuary laws,” as they call the prohibitory amendments. Dr. F. R. Lees, in reply to an inquirer, puts the case on a right footing. He says: “A ‘sumptuary law’ is a law against “luxury,” but a Maine law is a law against crime. No law can accurately dictate or define what is ‘luxury’ in diet, dress, or furniture, and therefore it would be folly to attempt to put it down by law. But drink-selling, or public gambling, or dealing out poisons, is capable of strict definition and universal application—is, in fact, one of the many forms of wrong-doing, and therefore within the theoretic province and the practical jurisdiction of the law. Social liberty really consists in the exercise of our faculties under protection from all such wrong-doing; and we can not have true liberty, therefore, except by suppressing the causes which abridge our liberty, tax our labor, and endanger our life.”—Ex.