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can be done anywhere: "I am here, as represent- ing the country, to assure you that the facts stated 196 A Busy Life. regarding the success of prohibition there are per- fectly accurate. There is a district in that coiintry of sixty-one square miles, inhabited by nearly 10.000 people, having three great roads communicating with market towns, in which there are no public houses, entirely owing to the self-action of the in- habitants. The result has been that whereas those high-roads were in former times constant scenes of strife and drunkenness, necessitating the presence of a very considerable number of police to be located in the district, at present there is not a single police- man in that district, the poor-rates are half what they were before, and all the police magistrates tes- tify to the great absence of crime.'- This is in Ire- land, in county Tyrone. Prohibition did diminish crime and pauperism and their evil effects. Now, another example. It is that of a town in New Jersey, called Vineland. Concerning this town, Pitman, in his "Alcohol and the State," says: "The settlement, from its commencement in 1691, was under the voluntary regime of prohibition, al- though the law empowering the people to vote on the question of license was not passed till 1863. The vote has always been against license by such over-