Sunday Closing of Dram-Shops in Ireland
Sunday closing of dram-shops in Ireland, which has been enforced in the greater part of the island since 1879, has worked well, and it is now proposed to include the five other towns and cities under its operation. The legislation of 1879 was a success from the beginning. The arrests for drunkenness on Sunday were as one to seventeen on week days. The magistrates are almost unanimous in saying that the law greatly promotes peace. Of course it does; and some day the British mind, which moves slowly in the direction of prohibition, will awake to the fact that the law which works so well on Sunday, will work just as well every day in the week.—N. Y. Independent.