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252 METHODS OF SOCIAL REFURM.
they ought to adhere to the Maine Liquor Iarw with which
they began, and agitate for real prohibition of the sale of
liquor. As it i, they only venture to ask for the capricious
&ion of separate parishes and boroughs in suppressing the
public sale, while leaving all individuals free to get their own
supplies ot liquor by purchaw elsewhere. I cannot avoid the
conclusion, then, that nearly a quarter of a century of time
and a quarter of a million of money have been wasted in
advocating one of the worst devised measures which was ever
brought before a legislature. The Permissive Bill, we are
told, will not bo passed in any calculable time; I venture to
assert that it will never bo passed at all.