The Hillsdale standard. [volume] (Hillsdale, Mich.) 1851-1909, 1852-03-09
Origin OF the Maine Liquor Law.

We COPY The falIowiog Il ON correspond
ence Of the Ca,son League, writing from AL
bany N. Y: ioode ID shs7sE la n0oi 7Ht
On Wednesday evening we attended a large
Temperance Mass Meeting. which was address
sed by the celebrated Hawkins, OF Baltimore.
lis gave The occasion or cause ofthe Me. Law.
He said al Wsshng,onian meeting in PORT
land, there was a confirmed drunkand. who
was impo verished and bowed to the dust by
drinking, came up To sign the pledge. folio sed
by his miserable wife, So soon as he signed IL
she burst into tears, and followed him back TO
hei seat. Afier this. the drunkard (Sweet was
his name) went to work and picked up "a piece
Of furni' ute here and another there. and sup
piled his house with Decessaries and comioits
then he bought him a llile cottage, aud liv'
ed ior seven years happily with his iamily.-
After So long time. he entered a splendid eat
ing and drinking saloon in he city, and they
prevailed upon him TO drrk and they made
hun d,unk-Jead drunk. Ii was given out that
he was dead. They laid him on truck and
took him home. u85ti r.a.la $500 ..e
His wife came TO the door TO receive his
corpse, but so soon as she saw he was drunk.
she screamed in agony. flewas carried INTO
chamber and put on bed, and she sat by his
side until he became 10 his senses. She then
ask ed him where he go, his liquor. lie refus-
ed to tell. She locked the door. and threw tue
key oui of The window 10 her iule boy, and di-
recied him not to unlock the door until she
told him,to. fettaa.f .t.t- -aaf
She ;hen told her husband he should mol
leave the chamber neither would she leave il
until he ioid her,whcre he GO. his liquor. For
long lime he refused, but finally told her she
would always have her way, and he said he
got il AT Coles. Gale kept a splendid saloon.
and he got poor Speet in and cot him drunk.
She then ordered the door open and pa, on
her bonnet. "Where are you goinel" said
Sweet. am going TO Coles Don't go
there" said he, "you will disgrace yoniseli'"-
IL shall not disgrace myself so much ~ you've
dise,aced me- and oH she wen, 10 Cole's.-
She fund some youog men in thus rum bole.
She t"ld Cole Who she was. aud commenced
begging him MOI 10 sell her husband Iquor.
and told her melting storyga lie cursed her,
and told her to leave. She refused, aud tell mp
on her knees and begged in The most piliful
terms. He began To talk obscenely To her,snd
aronsed her indignaiion. She then seized him
by the collar and held him in one hand as in q
vice. With the other hand she slapped his
face back and fouh, until he was must severe.
ly chssiised. and then left for home. gd1 oi
The young men who were present. then told
The rum seller he well deserved his hoe cling
IL was an infn'e shame To insult "a woman he
had soiwroneed. when she came 10 plead with
him IN such a matter. aaa at' sa feisHCg
Wel the next day Sweet came home drunk
again, and so The next day and The next; when
she lonnd he got his liquor at Coles. sbo i'm
mediately started for Coles. and found about
$50 men surrounding an auciioneer. WIN was
crying off goods before the door Of CoIessa
loon. Her former visit to Coles was known
overthe city. and had caused vety general
talk, and she bad become generally known.
She lodged into the saloon and the people ai
the auction seeing her 60 IN. pushed in after
her, and Ieit the auctioneer alone. They said,
''Iheie goes Mrs. Sweet--aEother battery
As she entered, she saw her husband in the act
OF raising the cup to his lips. He dropped his
cup and escaped ibrougl, the back door. She
then began 10 talk to Cole as ibefaie; and he
began 10 talk 10 her as before. When he com.
menced his obscenily, she went inside tie bar
and seized Cole by the collar, with her left
hand, and run her clinched fist 10 his lace with
her right hand until IL was well pounded. and
then showed him out head first, kicked him as
he fell into The street. She then entered the
bar and surveyed the splendid bottles and fur
niture.o 10 her Indignation she al once broke
all the bottles. and set The cocks of the barrels
Of liquor all running. Then she saw show.
box Of toys and sugar things and said look.
there. auap for our children; to draw them
here and make them drunkards She found
an old jug with some liquor in and empted its
contents all over the toys and ruined them
She then saw u large luoking- glass. "Tbere,"
she said. ga thing put up for drookards 10 see
their faces. She took jug aud hurled il a.
gainst the glass and broke il loipeces: 3aisT
About this time, another rum seller rushed
in and addressed The audience, "why will you
all stand here and see So much properly des-
uoyedl' The woman then rushed az him, ,sny-
ing. 'rben you are another scoundreL" He
took TO his heels and escaped. Having des.
,royed everything, she went into the street Tor
home. and met the Mayor and two ov three po-
lice men. and she said 10 them. show have you
done your dunes1 You are d. Office to pro,ect
me, and my husband and our children, and you
have LETT Us 10 be murdered BY this man, and
IL you wont protect us, will take the law ioro
my own hands, The multitude tcbeered her,
aud the Sheriff returned. acknowledging the
justice O her complaint. The vide spread
story ofihis transaction, Nj. Hawkins said.
begot The maine Liquor Law" ,,,s.,.. -
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