Prohibition Not a Failure.
By Editor
NEAL DOW writes as follows to the N. Y. Independent:— “A gentleman walking in his garden saw a man prone upon the ground, having at the moment crept through the hedge. The proprietor exclaimed: ‘What are you doing there, you rascal?’ ‘Going back again, sir,’ the tramp replied. “Four weeks ago, a California wine manufacturer, to try the market, sent to Maine forty large casks and two half-casks of wine and brandy. It came all the way by rail, and on its arrival at Portland, it was promptly seized by the sheriffs, taken to the lock-up where seized liquors are kept, and was duly libeled according to law, preparatory to its confiscation. “The manufacturer came all the way from San Francisco to the hearing, and swore it was sent to Maine by mistake, being intended for Boston. It was remanded to him, and it went back again yesterday to Boston, that paradise of grog-shops and drunkards.” The story and the moral explain themselves. It is likely that California wine dealers will hereafter be careful about sending any of their samples to Maine. Yet they say that prohibition is not a practicable thing. We imagine that at least one wine dealer believes that it is practicable. What has been accomplished in Maine could as well be accomplished in any other State.