Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1853-09-07
THE MAINE LIQUOR Law,

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New York Express, Wing paper:
THE LIouoR LAW IN MAINE We were IN a,
State Of Maine short time since as far east as tue
kennebee riyers and in constant intercourse v;9
with people from many parts of the State We ~
opportunity to make personal inquiry of the effect "
the Liquor Law pertinent there The informaSoS
we got may be summed up thus uVl
That, upon the whole the law is useful in S,,,.
sing low dppling shops, and in keeping the H.;
Germans, and poor American laborers. who ISA
liquor, from the means of getting it. The Door .Ue
not get at and therefore cannot get drunk nos
it. Hence their families are bettered in their ya
tion and their work is more steady and secnro oON'
That in other respects the effect upon the CON-.
nifty was bad mainly in the utter disobedencSaO ne
law by many of the more intelligent and better ~ as
Gated classes Who despite the law, get just as mn%
liquor they want, and drink of it more frool uca
the spirit of mischief perhaps, or because = IN
against law which they did not respect and L aS
against them the community would not enforca winch
1t may be asked, then, why, if so much oftSo:
telgence of the State is against the law le m
less of it, why is it keptup? The real trntbS lec
swer is that the Democratic Party is sniff TO dr.
it, and the opposition use 1T as the gneno ges
ting them more Many say, too, it does oooJ 'l
the poorer classes and though the princnie % of
law is against human rights vet for tbo I " t1e
good, let the rights go." N' Vi ne
The Editor of the g Boston Transcr;t,,
the following additional testimony on this
The LIQUOR LAW OF MAINE We find -.
aple arucle IN reference to the practical WORKINGS Of
the Maine Law, from the pen and over tb go VI
of John Neal Esq, in the State Of Maina
terday. We regret that we have not room f e. yGs
entire article for we think with Mr. Neal tbat th
time has fully come when the whole truth sbondL S
known in regard to the humbug and falsehood UboS
have been published in regard to the practical effects
of the severe statute known as the " Maine IomS
Upon recent visit to portion of the State of NJ.
we found that the large stories published in ranr5
to the public sale of liquors. were sheer fabric.t;on
The sale of liquors, we witnessed it at the boaI
of Maine, was as open and undisguised as sncb SIa
is in New York. And merchants and public men NJ
Maine informed us, that there was more genera
of Intoxicating drinks throughout the STATE tbo
was ever before known. The statements of tbaSo
gentlemen confirm the opinion given by Mr. Neal
He says:
At this moment-and it has been growing worco
every day, since the first three months were over
when people were blinded by its presumption or
frightened by its rashness-there is more intemnar
ance and more drinking in this city and neighbor.
hood, and probably throughout the whole State Of
Maine, with here and there doubtful exception than
there has been at any other time for twenty wears
Young men have banded together in clubs to eyade
the law. Travellers have brought liquors with them
to our public houses Children carry liquor TASKS
about with them; and bottles are made in the shap.
of Bibles, SO bound as to deceive the eye
Hundreds of demijohns of liquor were distributed
among our householders the very day the law went
into operation-if we may believe the I" embodiment
when he testifies against hmsel-and these dem.
johns have been replenished as fast as they were
emptied and now, at this hour it can be had any
where and everywhere. Andsyet with boldneS
and effrontery without example, since Goblet con-
tinued to offer himself day after day. to be broied
on his gridiron if the Bank of England ever re-
sumed specie payments, years after it notorious
all over the world, except among the readers of his
Register, 1.-THE Watchman of that day. that the Bank
paid out thousands and tens of thousands of specie
every hour-the story continues to be repeated for
the western and Canadian markets. week after week,
that the drinking houses are all broken up in the
city of Portland, and that the sale of liquor in tt ,
State of Maine is no more!-a shameless falsehOod,
which has never been true, any thing like true
since Maine had place on the map of North A
merica.
1t seems to us, then, again, as it has often seemed
their truth and spirit and licenses were given only
to upright men, Temperance would be upheld with
put breeding in society disposition that is in utter
defiance of the laws-the most dangerous disposition
indeed, that can be created In republican land for
f in one case the veneraton for the laws is weaken
I'd, it is endangered in all others. The Temperance
organizations however, have abandoned all efforts to
maintain existing laws, useless, and, looking only
the adoption of laws yet more rigid, some of them
eem to have pleasure In viewing the inehicency
If present regulations in order to enforce thereOm
he necessity of something more stringent. If, as is
aid the political organizations will not grant icens
S to only upright men, take this power from the
oliticans: vest it other quarter that will do
S duty in spirit and truth for such men in society
an easily be found"
General Gideon j. Pillow, of ditch . memory