Democratic Sentinel, Volume 6, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 May 1882 — The Chinese Question. [ARTICLE]

The Chinese Question.

Washington, April 27. —Seuaior Farley, oi California, in discussing the Anti-Chinese bfil recently gave that qucs’ioo a political turn. He said the matter ol Anti-Chinese legiCatiou had been taken cha.gc of by the ReDublicans and managed ou cl'-s**. corporation Style. ile complained that the Democrats from the Pacific cost had not beeo consulted as to the needs of their constituents and claimed that to tbe Democrats belongs the credit of *ll that may hare bejn achieved.

Ex-Governor Washburne, of Maine* was in Indianapolis a few days ago and while there interviewed relative to the success of prohibition in Maine He said: “Taking the State throughout, he did not regard the law as a great success, for it was so openly and notoriously violated as to have a bad effect on the community. When the law was practioally imperative the traffic had no restrictions what ever, and was very hurtful in its eff eet. As a result of his observation and experience, he was of the opinion that a well guarded, l'eense law would do better than a prohibitory law, and secure more satisfactory results even to th . tern perance people. He felt sure tnut this was the case in Maine and thought it would be in other States which cared to make the experiment* The prohibitory law produced several dusirable results, but its workings, as an entirety, were not as satisfactory as those of a good license law might be.”