Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1880-07-11

Outht Peoples BOX oJ<ui 81 LOUIS MO-
Language of the Maine liquor law That
accounts for the fact that although more
places were established to SELL $50 in 1875.
and 700 in 1879 less liquor was sold, as is
shown by F. J. Rollins United States rev.
enue report when the United States reven-
ue from liquor in Maine was $54, OC0 in
1874 and $Z3, 999 in 1879.
People read in Boufort's liquor direc-
tory and United States collectors reports.
that in Maine there are six wholesale
licensed and 800 or 700 licensed retail
dealers in Maine, and infer that this large
number are selling precisely as they sell
here in Tennessee. There never was
greater misrepresentation The United
States revenue report and liquor directo-
res use general language and characterize
all places in the nation where liquor
is sold and on which it
gets tax as licensed places,
whether in so-called 'license states" like
Tennessee, where liquor is sold indiscrimi-
nately and for all purposes, or IN pro-
hibitory states as Maine, where liquor is
sold under most rigid restrictions for
medical. manufacturing and mechanical
purposes, and no other" the difference is
as wide as the poles. l have previously
made the identical explanation in print, and
when Bonfort, by letter to this city, at
tempts to give or endorse any other I'M
preston, he reveals his character too
The 1901 places in Maine in 1875
| (BonforD and the over ''700n places IN
! 1879 (U. S. revenue report whore Liquor
was allowed to be sold, were for medical,
mechanical and manufacturing purposes,
and that only" and no words can
sufici emily characterize the wlcEedness,
dishonesty and meanness of the man who
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impression.
The enemies of prohibition try to prove
that notwithstanding prohibition in Maine
| is in morals degeneratng, and so Maine IN
1860 is compared with Maine in 1877, IN
which it is shown by undeniab!e statistics
that in 1877 there was more crime ana pow
erty and vice and general decentralization.
| Was ever confessed such ridiculous igno-
rance? The entire country, the whole
north and west, show a similar apparent
decline in morals. In 1860 the whole
country was prosperous, thrifty and busi!y
employed. Everybody at work. No
cause for discomfort, disorder, crime and
trouble. In 1877 the whole country was IN
q business panic. Mills and factories were
shut down, and hundreds Of thousands
of men were out Of employment, pre-. emil
nentlY so in Maine, and most notably so In
Bnngor, the greatest numbering city in the
stale, filed with operatives and ignorant
foreigners. There was no work to be done.
and of the deep distress and sorrow and
hardness of the times was born the in
creased crime and poverty and insanity,
precisely as was the case all over the coun'
trv. To infer the general decline OF morals
in Maine by contrasting 1860 and 1877 ii
perfectly absurd. 1t is said Maine Is run
ming down in population, and that must bt
owing to decline in morals. Ridiculous
, ignorance again. There is not an lntelll
sI.I Io In, no
! Maine that does not know that the loss o
population in Maine is by emigration. L
is said the schoolgoing children are de
, creasing. That is caused by emigration too
1t is said that there are many club house
} in Maine with much secret liquor making
Says Gov. Dingley, March 3, 1880, IN Bos
ton Congregationalist: After careful en-
quiry l cannot learn that club rooms exls
! outside oftwo cities in Maine" BY law o
1879-e0 these club houses have been de
r clared public nuisances, and abaoiutel.
3 outlawed.
1t is said that Maine loses every year, il
state revenue, by prohibiting intoxica
? ting liquor. If she would allow liquor t
!. be sold and tax it it would add immeasura
l bly, TO her state incOmel and wealth
t Was sillier specimen of political econo
8 my ever seen in a newspaper. License
= traffic which loads the people with poverty
< and vice, and sickness and crime, destroy
? their bodies and souls, wastes their money
r BY the millions, and then tax tho liquO
B. that produces it all, and then tax tn
: people to repair the ruins and mitigate tn
: woes of that license, and think the stat
;, is getting rich by it? a 5 well license a
q seen to be weaker when such misrepreser
= tations and reasoning as the above ar
i resorted to to support ltI
b Cumberland county is paraded befor
g the public with its large numbers of liquc
9 arrests. That shows the wickedness an
Q st the same the spirit vigilance and trump
d of the law. Cumberland is the wors
}, county the state and into it, its five point
its filthy alleys, its seaport town the liGuC
IT traffic is driven and these cornered. La
5 is triumphant there. And yet Cumbe
). land is the exceptional county in the who
}, state by unanimous acknowledgements
), attempt to disprove the triumph of PR
J, hibition in Maine by three or four excer
y tional cities, like Bangor and Bidbefor,
# &C., filed with corrupt foreigners, an
8, where the law has always been variabl
il enforced. shows the desperateness of tt
IS enemies of prohibition, and that they wi
Of resort to any methons, and employ an
arguments to blind the public to the trutl
ss and deceive them as regards one of II
9 greatest moral triumphs Of the niIeteent
8. century.
Or Now, will all persons be convinced b
g the overwhelming official facts and test
re monies above given? By no mean
IS Some men are not Influenced by testlmon
q nor convinced by facts and figures. Inc
at are some men who still believe the globe
lie fat, and that the sun revolves around Il
,e earth. Intelligent and honest and cand
is men will be convinced, and it is for sue
men that this article is prepared. Vel
y respectfully 4. Il. STURGIs
Is
n PERRY DAVIS PAIN-KILLER is 9