Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1873-11-07
Nallomell LocaI Mems.

The remark of one of your correspondents
yesterday that "the only remedy for stop
ping the sale of liquor or of drunkenness,
Giles in a stringent license law" sounds
strangely to the ears of those who have been
at all conversant with the workings of our va
rious liquor laws for the last thirty or forty
years. We think the paragraph must have
been written without due consideration of the
principle involved; and that the distinguished
author will at once discover the paradoxical
dilemma apparent between the first and last
part of his communication. When he said
81 could stop the selling of rum in your town
| IN week" we at.once remarked to friend
| at our side. ''that has the true ring, and is
worthy of the most unlimited credence" but
when we came to the last paragraph, where
| he winds up with the statement that cit can
not be stopped, and he who says it can be, de-
| ceives himself, and is an unwilling enemy to
reform" we did not know what to say, and
| therefore held our peace. The inference
drawn by your correspondent that public sem
timent in Augusta will not sustain the City
Marshal in enforcing the law, may or may
| not be correct; but so able and consistent a
disciplinarian will hardly consider that ques-
ton paramount to that of faithful and perss-
tent discharge of duty on the part of public
officer. In our judgment the leading and
better public sentiment of nearly every city
| and town in our state is in favor of the sup
preston instead of the licensing of the liquor
traffic; and wherever the law is strictly en-
forced it becomes popular with all excepting
those who either wish to sell or drink; and it
certainly is not in our heart to assert or even
intimate that the city of Augusta is a whit be-
hind the average sentiment of the State in
every effort for the moral elevation of her
own citizens, or strangers who may casually
sojourn within her borders-especially the
'poor lame soldiers" from the Military Asy-
lum or elsewhere, who deserved better treat
ment than to be druggeG with rum and then
fined or impris oned, while their tempters are
allowed to go free and riot in their unlawful
and detestable traffic.
Last week our cotton factory produced more
yards of goods than ever before in single
week; and the present week promises
shade better. We viii give the figures at the
close Of the week for comparison with mills of
like capacity elsewhere.
That cask of liquor seized q. few weeks ago
| marked ''glass, handle with care, received
| rather rough treatment at the hands of police
officials yesterday forenoon. Time has been
when such an event would have created Gin
tense excitement among the lovers of the
ardent; but now there are none to offer re-
grets or bestow reverence. a pungent ef-
finvia pervaded the vicinity of City Hall
during the day, and so ended the last spiritual
seance
The ladies of this city have taken in hand
the task Of making and arranging the cur
tains, and other useful and ornamental adorn-
ments for the new Classical school building in
this city, and have entered upon the prelimi
nary work with that promptness and energy
that has always characterized the ladies OF
Hallowel.
We hear but little of late concerning the
industrial School for Girls" to be located in
this city when sufficient funds have been Sc
cured. 1t would seem that as two of our
Hallowell ladies have donated about one half
the amount required, the rest of the State
might furnish the balance. This enterprise
should not be allowed to languish for want of
| funds for its inauguration.