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

w. w. Rice, warden of the Maine state
prison, Thomaston, said: 'There are no
places of open sale in this town. The eff
fects of the law has been to make the
traffic infamous"
Joseph Farrell, q. s. Justice of Rock
land, and ex-mayor of the city said: He
remembers the period. prior to the passing
| of the Maine law, IN his town there were
fourteen stores, and liquor was sold in
all but two. The drinking I.n custom sonh was
re sings, town>militia musters, husklngs,
and 4th of July celebrations, fights were of
| frequent occurrence, but now there IS no
open sale in the city"
| Says Mayor Nash, Augusta, Feb. 19,
$780,. We have IN Augusta no open
were four wholesale liquor stores and |
twenty-five retail shops. Now says |
Mayor Nash not one-all closed by law.
Said G. G.. Stacy, secretary of state: II
have known the city OF Augusta fifteen |
been to largely reduce crime"
General Dyer, inspector general OF state
militia, said: In Kennebec county, with a
population of about 390C0, containing
three cities augusta and others) and
twenty-fcur towns, the law was enforced.
materially improved both the moral and
social condition of the people, as it reduced
crime and poverty:
And vet, in the face Of such overwhelm>
inglv unim peachable testimony as to the
results ana triumph of prohibition in
I two.thirds of the people accept prohibition
as an established fact and past issue, the
3 presidents and professors in the colleges,
: the clergy of the state. the churches of
every denomination, every religious paper,
| and nearly every secularly paper being
| - kha Nd
u cratic parties alike standing squarely and
z solidIy on prohibition. There are men who
4 saw the Maine liquor law is failure. And
: who al they2 All the contemplate, law
}, [ breaking sellers and smugglers in Maine
= since 1852 say so; all the low, rlbald, drink
ing men in the state say so; all the New
}, | York and Boston wholesale establishments
% who criminally break the laws of Maine
l. bv smuggling in their damnable stuff in
I barrels of -four beans and corn, and their
l. criminal, law-breaking drummers and
70 agents say so.
y tory-of course he knows all about 1.-THE
holes and haunts and methods of the liquor
II retreats in Maine, he says so; all the whole
!: sale and retail dealers in the land, with
al one voice, say soi every dlstIllery and
y brewery convention says so; and all the
le drinking men, who love their whisky and
l. will have it, and who want the Maine
ot lieuor law failure, say so.
D. 1t ia for the interest of all this cla9s OF
S. men to say it is a failure, and to prove 1t a
It. failure, and to make everybody believe it
is is a failure. Their business IS at STAKE;
ar their liberty to get drunk and to disgrace
their families by intemDerance Is at stake.
BY They want the Maine liquor law failure,
o. and they catch at any floating straWs OF
an rumor to make it appear so.
st Prohibition is demonstrated by lncon-
testabla facts. Before prohibition in 1882,
of Maine spent $12, COO, 600, or $50 to the IN
of habitant every year, for ardent spirits. To-
of dav, for sll purposes, medicine, manufac-
he lures. and the arts, and for unlawful drink
n ing, about 81, O00,e00. or greatly less thar
of 200 to the inhabitant, as against $l6 W
per person in the county at large"
SD s'Before prohibition there were thirteen
his distilIeries in the state; seven in Portland
ly running night and day." producing l, 333
y 100 gallons of rum, all of which, together
with large quantities Of other distilled anc
rs, fermented liquors imported from elsewhere
of were consumed by the people. To-day
es. there is not single distillery or brewery
Of in the state; and said ex-Gov. Didgley
The best available statistics showed tina
in less than 5000 gallons were sold at all tn
IN agencies in the state for medical an(
ars manufacturing purposes, and that tn
}" amount of distilled liquors secretly sol(
his did not much exceed thas."
ess He further says: The very. largest esti
be mste ever made by the enemies of prohl
nd bition of liquor consumed in Maine for
year, for all purposes. was only 3oJ,UO
I'd, gallons" against the enormous amount o
cry at least 500 90 gallons. when the popula
he ton was but halt what it is to-day.
zen Before prohibition, 100Co persons il
Maine were reported as accustomed t
,st getting drunk. Now, not one in 800 of tn
ers population is q drunkard.
AN I'm 1898, there were 500 tsverns; all bu
US forty of them having open bars: Now
III . wit
The not one in ten of them sells liquor secretly
ew In 1880, every store sold liquor as freely 8
aW molasses; now. not onel
err And the unlawful liquor selling is cor
ore fined to four or five cites of the state ok
II #Bangor, Biddefofd and P0stland), where
has been driven in disgrace"
the "In 1880, 5000 families, one out of ever
80: TWENTY-FIVE were destitute from lntempel
In ance. To-day the proportion is not one
my tenth as large. Town after town having
population of only 100 were reported
mn buying from 7GS3 to 1I tbf gslop not
has single dram shop or any known or gu
low pected sale of spirits"
nth Towns which in 1882 had respectivel
:, If seven licensed grog shops. seven open bar
Tor thirteen grog shops, to-day have not arc
nth of liquor sold anywhere in them: In u
our city of Lewiston, Gov. Dingley's HON
our with population of nearly 30 600, he say
and May, 1880, there is not single open dral
law shop, and no hotel has even asecret bar
IN By official statistics, the convicts Il
low crimes of violence in 1877, in Maine, we
OF 3S per cent. less than before prohibition.
gh' the United States revenue report by
any J. Rollins, collector at Portland, recent
tied printed in this city, settles this whole que
ton by United States official authority, ar
ort- from that there can oe no appeal. La
ops year, 1879, the whole United States revent
nail collected on liquors sold in Maine, ACCORD
d is ing to official reports published the wee
sold past in this city, was the rdlculously patti
sale sum af S23, 999l or about four cents p
the inhabtaItll On that one official r
port by F. J. Rollins, United States &C
I'D, iector at Portland, the whole fact OF tt
dl- umph of prohibition might rest. VIII
ate, the United States revenue In 'llcenst
: as New Jersey, is 240 per inhabitant.
poss the country at large it is $1.83 per inha
liant. In Maine it is the picayune sum
d OF four cents If Maine consumed as mu!
the liquor per inhsbitant as New jersey, t
the United States official report would ha
n OF shown 81, 502, AGO. instead of S2S,o99.
cen, Maine had used as much liquor as t
}, or country at large per inhabitant,t the Unit
the States revenue would have been 81, la, 81
Sc instead of $23, 999.
rae In 1879, by official report of Collect
that Rollins, in Maine, state of 626,OlO pop
oVl- lattice, there were only 6 wholesale deale
:, Why, before prohibition little Augus
AID: | with bopulatiOD of Onlv e GOO. had 4 or