Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1882-07-11
THE OTHER SIDE.
Anti Temperance View Of Things
In Maine.
Prohibition That Does Not Prohibit-Inter-
views With Prominent Business Men
Statistics lnnumerab!e-Club
Room Life. +
VAST ARRAY OF FACTS AND FIGURES,
iyoo o,respOndenoe Of The Reotster.

lS1D Correspondence Of the RegtSter.
PORTLAND, Me, July 6.-My last letter
gave you the workings of the "Maine Lii
quor Law" and the results therefrom as re-
lated to me by the highest authority in
the Prohibition ranks, General Neal Dow.
now give you the other side Of the ques-
ton, a part of which is the substance OF an
interview with Mr.. James Bradley, prom
inent wholesale merchant here, and well
known throughout New England. Mr..
Bradley is very intelligent gentleman,a and
has given n groat dsal of time and thought
to the study of this question. There mot
so much rhetoric in his talk as about that
of the venerable Prohibition apostle, but
more "facts and figures" which will be OF
some benefit to those who desire to get
practical knowledge Of the condition OF
things in this State.
Mr.. Bradley said that "before the enact
ment of the sheriff feature of the prohibit
ory law there was yearly received nom six
breweries outside the State, and from the
breweries in Portland and Cape Elizabeth,
10000 barrels of ale and porter, one-third
of which was sent to other parts OF the
State, or 1900 barrels, costing the trade
S. 90 per barrel, or 500, 900, he barrels cost
ing $4,000, paid when returned. Portland
used 5000 yearly, costing $4,000. The
profits on this ale to the job3ers was about
$4,000. The amount of
Domestic Liquors
shipped to this city was about 100000 gal
Ions, two-fifths OF which was estimated to
have been sent from here to other sections
of the State. The costs of the above aver
aged about two dollars per gallon, or $780,
600, Portland's share being S36O,OOO. The
amount of imported goods was about $50,
600 in value yearly, about two-thirds OF
which was used here. The profit on the
above averaged twenty-five cents per gal
lon on all liquors, foreign and domestic, or
about So, 900 per year. The brewers and
jobbers employed fifty men, at an average
of two dollars each per day, and that proht
of $75, 900 per year, and all OF that labor Is
now lost to the city. The Sheriff law has
been in force since 1872. The amount OF
fines paid in six years Of that time was
$l25, ,231, making it in ten years $2OS, !iS. In
six years there were Il, 200 gallons of liquor
seized and destroyed, or 2S,6SS gallons in
ten years; average cost So per gallon, or
$57, ,2GO. The number of barrels OF ale
seized and destroyed in six
years was 4,22S, or for the
ten wears, 1888, at a cost for all at, basis
of Si2 per barrel total of $S4, ,456. There
were 50, lO4 bottles of lager seized, costing
the trade $l.75 per dozen, in six years,
amounting to S., iO2, or s., $50 in ten lyears.
The average cost OF the packages used,
casks, etc, may be set at $3.50, and 1000
we're seized, at lest, in the last ten years, or
a value of $500. The amount paid to
Congress can Ibe set at $500 per year, or a
total of S25, 900 for the ten years.
The total term of imprisonment served
in six years was 63 years, or l05 years IN
the ten years Of the operation OF
The Sheriff Law.
This at 81 per day for 300 days would be
5000 per year, or total of $50 900, showing
a total loss by this law to Portland for the
plan in all as follows: