The Portland daily press., 1874-12-31
The PrOhibitory Law.
sis Workings in Maine.

In response TO the call of the Governor, the
several county attorneys of the state have fur.
nished the Attorney General facts in regard TO
the enforcement of the liquor law; and the fol-
lowing is an abstract of their reports:
Androscoggin-No open dram shops in the
county, and no secret sales of much conse-
quenee outside of Lewiston and Auburn.
Aroostook-Tbe Sheriff has done his duty
faithfully, and there is less drunkenness and
liquor selling than ever before. In HoultOn the
change for the better is remarkable. The en-
forcement of the law has diminished the num-
Der OF drsm-shops and driven the traffic into
secret places
Observation-Disclosures and appealed cases
272; fines collected $13,141-larger than ever
before rumsellers imprisoned Is. Besides
those there have been very large number OF
seizure cases in the Police Court of Portland, in
which $500 in fines has been collected. No
dlfhculty in securing convictions. The only
difficulty is in getting evidence.
Franklin-The Sheriff has discharged his
duty faithfully, and there is no difficulty in en-
forcing the law and SURPRISING dram shops
Law every way successful. r5sr..
Hancock-There are few dram shops outside
OF Ellsworth in the county. In Ellsworth the
traffic has not been suppressed wholly, but in
no places is liquor sold openly. Law works
well. 70 indictments the past year against none
the previous year.
Knox-County Attorney Rice does not be-
lieve in prohibitory law, but admits that in
the rural towns of Knox county no liquor is
sold. In Rockland and some sea- board towns
he says respectable men have left the traffic.
but it has fallen into the control of low grog-
gerles
Kennebec-At least one-thrd more success
full liquor prosecutions have been had in Ken
nebec county during the last eighteen months
than during any previous similar period. To-
cal officers have done most of the work.
LincOln-24 indictments and appealed cases
in 1874. against 10 IN 1873-liquor traffic driven
out OF the county except in Damariscotta, Wal
docoro and Wiscasset. In the first two places
the work of suppression is going on well. Every
rumseller was indicted at the October term,
and each paid fine of 500. Fines collected
$780,
Oxford-No dram-shops so far as known to
the public or the officers. The few persons,
who have attempted liquor selling have been
Penobscot-Great improvement during the
last six or eight months; number of prosecu-
tons doubled. +frt
Piscataquis-S indictments in 1874 against
in 1873. No difficulty in enforcing the law and
suppressing dram shops.
Sagadahoc-Law successfully administered
and dram-shops rare. Ef VIII ~ t8
Somerset-23 indictments and appealed
cases, 1888 in 1874, against indictments and
$500 fines in 1873 E III fE
anu dppedieu
cases, rumsellers imprisoned and $500 fines,
against IL Indictments in 1873: The result
has been most satisfactory, and dram.shops
are more nearly suppressed than ever before.
YOrk-Previousy to the past year no sys-
tematic and successful efforts have been made
to suppress dram-shops in York county. Mum
Der indictments during the past year 1919, in
addition to large number of seizure cases,
fines collected nearly $11 900; nearly sufficient
to pay costs. Imprisonment on second con.
victon has been most effectual iD driving rum
sellers from the traffic. The sheriff has been
indefatigable in his efforts to break up the
traffic, and success has followed. With the aid
of the reform movement, in six months nearly
all the dram shops in the county have been
closed. In Saco it is said there is not single
place where liquor is sold; and in Biddeford
the sale is conducted only secretly and incon-
siderably. t
The number of convictions of liquor sellers
in the Supreme Court. together with the
amount of fines imposed upon rum sellers, and
paid by them into the several county treasur-
les, and the number of commitments to Jail for
keeping dram-shops, for the several years
named, is as follows: