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Show The Baxt Lake liquor dealers who rail ajrainst the severity of the liquor laws here, want to steer clear of Maine, if a Dew bill prepared by Neal Dow for the state legislature, becomes statute. Mr. Dow would soon d is prove, the Beecber theory concerning hell, i! he had his way. His bill will make tvery Maine man w ho has left the state rejoice to think that he escaped. It starts out by making the sale of intoxicatiug drink a felony. 1 The penally lor the first offense, even , Jbr the tale of a thimblefull,ia$100 and six months in the county jail; second offense $100 and a year in the stale prison; in delault of paying the fine the criminal ruu3tBerve an additional year in the jailor state prison. The bill prohibits the transportation of liquor within the state, even for private parties, and makes the persons ou i whose premises it is found responsi ble; apparatus for selling must be considered evidence of sale; the powtr to enter not. prof, is Utea way frou the county attorneys and held only by th courts; officers having seized liquors not to give them up, except by order of the court, the burden of proof to be on the parties ol aiming the same; the horse and carriage oonveying or drawing liquor to be seized; persons arretted u common drunkards to be sent iiimmarily to tho county jail for one year, to bo let out when the person oiling thorn liquor shall be convicted, no surety received from a peron who baa been convicted of selling liq ior; liquor runners fined $1,000 and onn year in the state prison; a reward of fa nflnrMl for thfl ftrrflst and COn- Tiotioo of parties; no stay of proceedings proceed-ings or compromise made at any stage of proceeding; $o00 fine and iix montli in tin county ja.il for displaying dis-playing a sign offering l-quor for sale or advertising the manufacture. |