The Elko independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1869-1872, 1870-04-16
A Letter From Maine.

founded climate is this have got into do you
suppose? Here it is the fourth of April and
aeold raw wind blowing, that pierces the very
marrow in your bones, and the air is full of
snow. We have had a week of pleasant
weather, and had began to hope that .bare
ground" was not far away. but this northeast
wind feels more ike December than Spring
tell you am getting about enough of this,
and if it don't change mighty soon shall
pack my saddle-bags and start south, and am
as likely to bring up at Elko Us anywhere
else. I'd like to be there to help stir up the
monkeys this Fall
SEvADASs IN WASHINGTON. E
A week ago saw gentleman from Wash
ington who appeared to be well posted in re-
gard to men and things. asked after my
friends, Messrs. Nye, Stewart and Fitch. Nye
stands just where he always has. There is
not man on the floor of the Senate who
can get up and shake out of himself. at call.
as good a speech as the old Grey Eagle"
"He's fat and lazy, and never will be hung for
his virtue, said my informant Stewart did
stand first rate, but has injured himself by his
subserviency to the Pacific Mail Steamship
Company, the Central Pacific Railroad Com
men. I'm sorry for him, for he is a worker,
but his hands seem to be tied by few great
corporations" Tom. Fitch has not taken "A
trick, and now Sutro has defeated him before
the Committee on Mines and Mining. he NAV
as well so home. 1t is generally understood
that he is doing his masters work, and some
think makes the master pupgle The Bank
of California Is better known at Washington
than had any idea of, and the institution
don't have quite as much "say" as it does in
the Nevada Legislature. The people of Ne
Vadn can break the power of the whole vile
clique who have ruled her in every department
for the past six years, if they will only show
little independence; but they may expect
nothing more in the way of assistance TO rail
roads or reduction on tariffs until they put
new men in Washington. The present in
cumbents have established their reputation The
news of that one hundred thousand dollars
that Rhodes sent where the "woodbine twin
eth has reached Washington and don't help
the agent of the Bank a bit, nor any of the
Nevada schemers. You will have to have n
new deal or wait for your land grants.
/. on. THE MAINE LAW.
have often Thought that n word about the
Maine Law would be interesting TO your
readers. This celebrated law is in full force
in this State now, and probably always will
be. 1t is now twenty Years since the law pro-
hibiting the sale of intox. iating drinks was
first passed and the people are not tired Of it
yet. The last Legislature put the screw on "A
turn closer, and provided new means for hold.
inn he rt,YY, ell a.,
for the result. Drinking is not wholly stop
ped, nor is drunkenness, but it is controlled
and checked. Public bar-rooms are un-
known, and even the small back room up
stairs or down cellar are only opened To the
trusted few, and Il red nose is no passport. for
sorrow that man may have a red nose and
drink water too. The luw is easily executed:
the grand jury finds u hill; tho RESPONDENT
walks up to the District Attorney. comes down
with " cool hundred dollars and goes his way
with the promise that it shall cost him twice
as much next time. Now and then n half
barrel of rum is struggled into n neighbor-
hood and peddled ont among the old soakers.
but is almost always found ont by somebody
getting drunk and stopping over" You can
travel from one end of the State to the other
and not see a drunken man. Men do get
full once in while, but their running"
friends usually take care of them. A vounp
man who is known TO drink, is disgraced. and
hardly allowed in good society, and young
lady who would taste wine or hand it 10 n
friend had better be dead. The general scnti.
ment Of good society is strongly against all
stimulants, unless prescribed by a doctor, and
this sentiment gains strength by years. The
old men will tell You Of the time when every
store and tavern sold New England rum for
three cents glass, and will point to many n
farm that had run down the capacious throat
OF former owner, ut that low rate There
are now some 'priyate bottles" kept in the
horse crib, away from the sight or smell Of
the good wife, and little hnsk may PERTAINS
he found slowed away in some ovcrcoat pock.
ct, but universal drinking, as you see it in
California and Nevada, is unknown. How
many bundled thousand dollars do YOU sup.
pose is annually saved Maine by her liquor
Inv? Look mt The sum il takes TO run the
forty or fifty whisky mills in the town of Elko
and ask yourself if this immense amount could
not he better employed in legitimate and use.
ful pursuits. This is not ALL the county Of
Oxford contains about forty thousand inhab.
itants, and there has not been boarder in the
county Jail for four months. Paupers have