THOSE who still favor license as a means of suppressing the liquor traffic, should read the following, written to the New York Evangelist by a Presbyterian Elder of Oakfield, N. Y. What is here stated concerning the powerlessness of license to diminish intemperance, could be truthfully said of that system, wherever and whenever it has been tried. The drinker buys no less liquor because he has to purchase it from a licensed retailer: “As to this license question, experience is worth several tons of talk. Several years ago, we were agitating in our county for prohibition, but many persons said: ‘Why don't you enforce the law you have, a stringent license law? You don't deserve a better law until you enforce what you have.’ This seemed reasonable; so we formed a law and order association, hired an agent, and for three or four years vigorously enforced the law. What was the result? It was just what any man with a head on his shoulders might have foreseen:— “1. It turned the business from an illegal into a legal channel. They took out licenses wherever selling without one, and conformed to the law within gunshot range. “2. We could not see that it at all diminished liquor-selling or drinking. “3. It made radical prohibitionists of all who engaged in the movement. We concluded it was utterly useless to attempt to suppress intemperance under a license law.”—Sel.