What Prohibition does for a City.

The Alliance and Temperance News S.A., for October 1st., 1896, says:—" Where entire Prohibition is the law it may be expected that distinct financial results will follow Partisans of the trade declare that ruin will be the result, but facts prove the contrary. The city of Atlanta, Georgia, U.S.A., may be quoted as a case in point. According to the assessor's books property in the municipality has increased two million dollars under prohibitory law. The loss of forty thousand dollars saloon revenue has been no obstacle to the city's commercial and industrial prosperity. Fifteen new house-furnishing stores have been started since Prohibition went into effect, and more furniture has been sold to mechanics and labouring men in the last year than in any twelve months of the city's history; the number of city banks has increased; the coming of four new railroads has been settled; the manufacturing interests have received new life, and all real estate companies have seen their stock double in value since the advent of Prohibition, two former 'liquor streets,' where once it was not considered safe for a woman to walk without an escort, are now as orderly as any other, and property on them has advanced from 10 to 25 per cent. The authority for these statements further testifies as to the diminution of crime as the result of Prohibition. 'Two weeks,' it says, ' were formerly necessary to get through with the criminal docket; during the present year it was closed in two days. The chain gang is left with almost nothing but chains and balls; it would not be large enough to work the public roads were it not augmented by supplies from other counties,' And one secret of this Prohibition success is told in the words—'The city government is in the hands of our beat citizens.