Show I PROHIBITION IN MAINE In a I recent number of Appi tensta la Holm Day Da one of the tho lead leadIn log ins In of Nw N w England him himSelf himSelf Self an advocate of prohibition never neer th confesses 5 that the Maine Mane law Jaw works both ways trays wa 5 That Is la to I say iy says Mr 11 Day in inthe inthe the tho n years es the Maine bior law has been on our statute books it has ha never beep been actively hon ben honestly honesty cathy estly esty consistently nd nd li i en enforced fn enforced forced as a state st td law the length and breadth of oC Maine I dont mean by b this that lawbreakers have merely persisted In selling eUng despite ef of efforts efforts forts to enforce the law I mean that the thc trouble has hag been higher up p officials 01 daIs have never united to do their full fulland ful fulland and plain duty in securing universal enforcement ment And there an honest mar mar in the state of or Maine who vho will wf de declare decar dare clare car It as his firm fr belief beler that these of or officials ever eyer will wH do to s 10 so o And Ant for fear some one might accuse him of beug favorable to the liquor in interests Interests crests he declares Understand at the outset that I am amnot amnot amnot not writing down the tho Maine law It I has Accomplished many nan things for tor which the state of Maine ought to bo be bl grateful grateful But the hypocrisy h that It has engendered has ha been too much con concerned concerned in hiding hid In the faults of ot the system ss system tem zealots zealot have hae made us ua ridiculous by b their extravagant claims as to what prohibition has done for Maine Giving a history of ot the prohibition movement In Maine Mr Day D says WHen still stI a young man Neal Xeal Dow became the head of at the movement and lectured on the subject from end to end of or the state during many years Maine was wa flooded with wih literature de do designed designed signed to educate the people along lines of or temperance All Al this evangel evangelistic work bore fruit frit when the Wash Vash WashingtonIan temperance movement swept the country Maine organized quickly The seeds seeR of reform had been ben sown in every community After several everal attempts had been made mae by Neal Neat Dow to have hac the Maine alne legislature pass a prohibitory law he appeared before a Joint special secal legis legislative legislative committee May 26 ISI with wih the draft of such a law and no one ap appeared appeared appeared in opposition On May Ia 2 29 the bill bU passed the Maine alne libuse by b a vote yote of 81 to 40 It I passed the senate next day dl by a vote of 18 IS to 10 On Monday June 2 Governor Hubbard Hubbar signed It I though many members of oC the legis legislature legislature legislature lature who had hae voted for Cor its passage went to the governor privately and urged him to veto It they represented to him that they the had been ben obliged to tote vote te for it by the politicians law of for the vote mar marBin marIJO margin gin Bin IJO in ther districts was so small bo be bo between tween Whigs and Democrats that thi radical temperance men held the bal ha balance balanCe ance of power Therefore it I is apparent that the political hypocrisy that has always been associated with wih the Maine law was born bor with the law in 1851 1851 That same hypocrisy in regard to honest en nt has ha never failed tle to charac characterize characterize characterize it ever since The Bangor plan after a while went into operation of which Mr r Day says fays Prohibition spasms may come anA ani an ango go but it has never been possible to tomake tomako tomake make mako dry dr Bangor simply wont dry up all al A Bangor daily daly paper Is the only one ne in n the state that defies defes the tho law and runs a liquor advertisement regularly The proprietor tor a wealthy man has ha ben been indicted for the offense otense on complaint of ot the th Civic ChIc league but he keeps on running the advertisement not so much for the money there Is In it I as a for Cor forthe tho the purpose of ot displaying the true tre Ban Bangor Bangor gor sentiment on the rum rm question queston He Ho adds It I is almost a waste wate ol ot of time to go about asking Maine men what they the think of the law laW as a fo d thing for Cor Maine To be perfectly hon hoti honest Ion est st we folks CoUes in Maine Iane made up upS S our minds In a newspaper experience of oC more mor than tha twenty years year I never neer found two tw Mains Maino alne men who agreed agree on onal all al points regarding the ho Maine law Recently a canvass canS of citi citizens emI zeus zen was made In the larger cities cies of the state It I was only another case of oC I many men and anc many minds After fer reading the opinions it would be he dUn I cults culs to an intelligent summary Between the extremes of monumental farce arid add It the e best beEt thing thih Maine Mane ever did for itself Isel there ther are arc hundreds of ot otvar varying var ing according to the slant la t of a mans maltS mind The Rev Dr Blanch Blanchard Blanchar Blanchard ard of ot Portland says 1 t voted for the tue ar 18 amendment and took part In the hI great geat thanksgiving mooting m In n Portland city ef hall h l when h the amend amendment amendment amendment ment was waa wa carried cried The Re R Rev Dr Miner one of the most ardent prohibitionists In n the country cunto had bad told me he ho thought I It t a great grat mistake to put prohibition In the constitution My f eyes were vere opened to the great evils els of ot prohibition II ip i a very Cr few years ear The Tc more inure mor I have seen soen of the th operation of the law I am the more convinced that a wiser law might have been placed place upon our statute books boks and enforced The rhe Hon lion Charles Carles F Libby leader leder Of the Cum Cumberland borland berland bar br says ss The Thc good go the law hag ha done s 3 more mor than offset by the Che he I evils it has brought with wih it I It I has hu hubred bred hypocrisy encouraged perjury in lour our courts cours led to corruption of our of officials given gien prominence in public life le leto to a poor por set of politicians has de destroyed destroyed the tho frankness in statesmen than ennobles men in other states and has not been ben effective Stiff SUf arg ment from Cram sources not to be lightly impugned So Bangor put its name to the only systematic and universally recognized nullification of oC the Maine law The sheriff and county count attorney allowed a certain number of oC saloons and hotels hotel to toseI sell seI liquor Prior to the term Ur of court courtat at which fines were to be assessed assEsse the county attorney or his agent went to the office ollice of the collector of oC internal revenue at Portsmouth N H and anddrew anddrew anddrew drew off of a a list o of the names of those tho In Inthe Inthe the county who were paying a se lal liquor retailers tax ta to the United States State government Then hen the county count attorney the jury jur jurand presented this list to grand and it I was wa accepted as evidence that each party pary was wa a dealer deler In liquor and the parties partes were accordingly according indicted Ion on that evidence alone and accepted the Indictment without protest and ad came up to the office and settled without demur Each paid the regular fine and costs amounting to 10 Usual Usually ly the tile county count assessed twice a year That made a comfortably low Jow license Penobscot county counts count paid off of of its Is county debt and arid built buit a handsome new now court courthouse courthouse courthouse house while that plan pla was in operation Other counties countes adopted the system until the majority of ot them were en engaged engaged in a profitable business with lh the taxpayers as silent part partners partners partners ners A few Cew stanch old temperance counties would not tolerate the plan In those counties men kept out of ot the therum th therum rum rm business The sheriff of a ramrod county knew kew that popular sentiment called caled on him to enforce the law Jaw Sher Sheriffs ills iffs Ifs In other counties countes knew Just lust as a well wen that their constituents wanted the traffic traffic fic fe regulated So that the matter mater of at handling the thc Maine constitutional law became after all merely a local loal Issue to tobe tobe tobe be determined according as the people felt or as the sheriff thought they thy felt or ought to feel reel I r recollect r coUet that at about that time tho the Womans Christian Temperance of Maine an organization that in Ja ineffectively effectively felt fel in Instate state politics made macic ma e a pilgrimage in force to Houlton the home of Governor Powers and present presented pr sent ed to him an appeal that he order the sheriffs of or the state of Maine Iane to do their duty and suppress the traffic Governor Powers received r them polite politely ly I and said ho would write a letter leter to the sheriffs But he told me at the time before writing the letter leter that really rean he ho had no authority or power to tomake tomake tomake make the officers pick out one law and pay pa especial attention to it it As the law taw then stood on the books the governor of ot the state had no part or parcel In enforcing the prohibitory statute It I was wa before b for the days das of oC the Sturgis law The sheriffs replied pleasantly to the governor that tat they the were doing all an they could to enforce all al the laws on the statute books and of ot them some ex ox exhibited exhibited his letter leter and made ma merry merr over oer it I being able to read be between between between tween the lines for Governor Powers Is Maines most sagacious politician But after arter the Bangor plan got start started started started ed doing its I snug little business all an over oe Maine the sheriffs in a number of coun counties countes counties ties tes overreached and made It I a I bit too to snug The charges were freely made that the were invited into a close corporation only approved men being allowed to open places place Those These Tese men have declared that they the paid to officers certain sums each month so I much on a 1 barrel of ot beer or ale so e much on hard liquors No one von ven ventured en to explain by b what right sheriffs or their th r agents aen collected such mch sums But the fact that they were being collected was a matter mater of common knowledge and it took the voters from two to four years ears to get mad enough to remedy rem dY the situation In some counties counte with wih ith his profits from Crom the board of prisoners his fees tees and nd his hi side business the sheriff sherif cleaned up from to 2500 a year ear earThe The Tue governors governors salary salar was 2000 After a long period perio of this system a governor was isas elected who afterward declared that he purposed enforcing the te law to the limit As to how his popularity popularity larity lart fared fare from his attempts Mr Ir Day tells tens as follows The Te temper of the people of Maine was vas wa shown last election electon when Cobb who was elected by more than plurality before beCore he had espoused the enforcement idea found his plurality cut down to At close of that campaign one of or its Is managers re no remarked remarked marked that it was wa evident that the folks of oC Maine wanted prohibition but did not want wat it enforced An attempt was made at the last session of the legislature to repeal the Sturgis law its foes Coes won in the first passage p sage of the te act but the governor vetoed the bill billand bu billand and his veto Yeto was wa sustained It I is gen generally orally predicted that the next legis legislature legislature legislature lature will wi repeal repa the law la and thus will wl depart Maines alnes only real and ear earnest e earnest nest attempt to enforce the Maine law lawas lawas lawas as a statewide statute instead of or leaving it to the local option opton of muni municipalities What has been the condition of af affairs affaIr affairs fairs faIr generally in Maine during this enforcement of oC the law the best en enforcement enforcement we have ever witnessed de despite despIe despite spite alike aUke spIe its It failure to use all aU counties In the jail jan of oC Androscoggin county where there has been ben most consistent and rigorous Enforcement there are more prisoners than ever before in the jails Jails history Arrests Arsts for intoxication the past pat year ear in Maine cities have averaged 25 to the tho thousand of pop population pp The average In New England Is 18 IS 4 per pel thousand In Portland ar arrests arrests rests were over 55 to the thousand and andin andIn andin in Bangor Bagor to the thousand There are scores of oC phony expresses doing business in private packages One agent on n trial tra said ad that he averaged deliveries d lyres daily daHy In Portland Dur Dun During DurIng Duning ing the dry time in Lewiston Lwis ton the city liquor agency conducted under the te liI P law to supply liquor for medi medicinal state ml mechanical ver dual cinal nal and aver average aged a business of more mr than th M 1 1111 a age week and an the population puli of Uw t city cl cht l Is 18 less than j j jAs As to what methods method were for circumventing the th law Jw Mr r r Dy D relates the th following In considering the ways for forgetting forgetting Lastly th Wy getting LUy liquor we come to the t kitchen barroom places e strong drink is dispensed p In the t homes home he I and in where whA they flourish sh of hundreds there are most rankly ar such mt places There Is no regulation of them The toper to r who h has the of the buy The quality price can c n dispensed can hardly b ho de described described liquor cn b scribed who have a asme some of or it I after Its It capture J by y Officers Ors say MY that th t it Is I composed of f alch alcohol to tobacco tobacco bacco emp and stupefying rg Much of oC this stuff l II is compounded le leMaine In Maine and the makers make of It bT buy y corks and ad caps In New Ne York ork or orton o Dr Doer ton and produce a neat nat n of apparently ad Rood good whisky Many May t victims of this stuff o have died di after and being arrested arte for intoxication ad admen men apparently crazed by the corn com compound rm pound have hanged cre themselves In their cells I am advancing no from the these statements I am am P some le facts lu that may J be Ji I to those th unfamiliar conST c con in a state tate that ha hae been lisen b pree practicing Pr prohibition In Its It f fn years yer Visitors Vl to Maine always alway h hf have v oc occasion o ocIon occasion lor of the of or casion to speak th cIon drinking on ra railroad 1 trains h in the state The passed p bottle fe i In smoking ears earsIn seen n cn K In rural communities various Tr pat patent pt patent Intoxicants used as ent medicines are a a uM common mm The Thelast and nd Jaky drunks are Ar TE last lat is the Maine Main name for a Jamaica ginger Jag jg Men will drink down dow bottle after bottle of or that fiery fr stuff ater The farmer has haa his cider Jug ju Cider of the is exempt from the provisions far as it its manufacture and statute so I lt at culinary purposes go B flut t a aman aman sale for g Bl r pr man mn is liable to arrest arr if he sells 11 It for fora fora a a beverage beverle What Wt Is Maine to doT d do |