The Portland daily press., 1867-06-03
THE PRESS.
Monday Morning, June 8, 1867
To-Day's Election.

TO-Day's EiectOn.
We do not now address those of our readers
who have made their election and decided to
vote either for or against the amendment to
the Liquer law. To those who are still in doubt
which way to vote, or whether it is worth while
to vote at all, we submit few considerations.
1. Intemperance in the use OF liquors ~
great and acknowledged evil ~
If we define intemperance to mean laoieuai
or even occasional drunkenness, this PROPOSE
ton will be universally accepted.
.. The only men in this State who are now
organized for active labor to check this evib
are the Prohibitionists f
Whether the Washingtonians, or the License
men, or other theorists may or may not be alb
stractIy right, has nothing to do with the mat
ter. The only Temperance men who are prac-
tieally doing anything are Prohibitionists.
g. If any man doubts whether Prohibition
will in the end diminish the evil of intemper-
ance it is his duty to give the practical meas
ure now on trial the benefit of the doubt. ...
Ofcourse man who feels certain that pro-
hibition of open sales win stimulate intemper-
ance in private houses and in clubs, thus max
ing bad worse, will oppose every attemptto put
the prohibitory law in force. But certainty, Oh
question of this sort, involves an assumption
which few thoughtful men will make. III on
the other hand, it be admitted that the prohiDi-
tory law n,ay do what its friends claim it WM
do, then they ought 10 have the privilege OF
trying. 1a
4. The friends of the law unanimously de-
clare that the amendments are essential to its
efficacy. ...' I
They have a right to ask for what they con-
slider essential to the working of the law The
responsibility for its success or failure cannot
rest with them if their hands are tied ailai
5. Ii the law is to be tried at all-and nobody
proposes to give it up-it should be made as
effcacious as possible. HH7Hi
The general uncertainty about the law now,
arises from the fact that it has never been
thoroughly and uniformly executed Let us
have it as it is. If it bears hardly upon any
class-the apothecaries for instance, or their
customers-that fact will be made clearer by
the actual pressure of the law than by reams
of newspaper writing and months of street
talk. Let us bring these things to the test of
experiment. and then we shall know what we
are talking about. " -A..
We repubish below synopsis of the penalties
imposed by the Prohibitory law of 1858, now in
force, and the additional penalties imposed by
the act of 1867. The additional penalties are
printed IN italics, and it will be seen that their
effect is simply to make imprisonment, for
longer or shorter term, the invariable instead
of the occasional consequence of conviction
under the law: tH.
SINGLE SALE OF INTOXICATING LIQUORS. "}
First cO,auiction-Ten dollars fine, and costs,
and Imprisonment thirty days.
Second conriction-Twenty dollars fine, and
costs, and imprisonment sixty days
Third and subsequent c0nUicti0ns.- Twenty
dollars fine and costs, and Imprisonment three
months. .iteIi-f ti-H 'i 40 t.- -H
FOR BEING COMMON SELLER.
First contradictions hundred dollars fine,
and costs, and Imprisonment three months.
Second conuiction-Two hundred dollars fine,
and costs, and Imprisonment four months b.
Third and subsequent cOnUicti0ns-Two hun
dred dollars fine, and costs, and imprisonment
four months. ."
KEEPING A DRINKING HOUSE.
First conuiction-One hundred dollars fine
and costs, and imprisonment three months.
Second and subsequent conuictioas-One hum
dred dollars fine, and costs, and imprisonment
sic months '''
SEARCH AND SEIZURE PROCESS. 10 ''
Each conyiction- dollars fine, and
costs, and imprisonment three months.
The statute of 1858 allows the Manufacture
of all kinds of liquors. by giving bond not to
sell, except to authorized agents. The amend
ments allow the manufacture of "pure rum
and alcohol, and no other kinds of liquors.
But both alike authorize the manufacture of CT
der, and the sale of it By the manufacturer. I'm
der both acts, if the fines are not paid there is
additional imprisonment, from two to four
months. o-' ,--t