Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1885-07-31
DOES THE MAINE LAW PROHIBIT :?


PEAKS ISLAND, Me, July S, 1885.
Editor Shcrbrookc (P.QD Gazette:
took advantage of the cheap trip offer
ed by Mr. Guimonts excursion, to
come down here and spend a few days re-
juvenating by the seaside. The eXcur
sion was evidently success. The only
unpleasant thing about it was the too free
use of intoXicants by some Of the eXcur
SioniStS. The curse of whiSkey seems to
be omnipresent in Canada, and | see by
despatch from Ottawa the Canadian Sen
ate has again enacted the wine and beer
clause twice rejected by the House of Com
mons.
Since coming here l have been taking
notes, mentally, of men and things gener
ally. The Maine prohibitory law is a sad
failure, so say the whiskeyites, and all
their friends and in Canada where we
are not supposed to be familiar with the
workings OF the Maine law, these decev-
erS of mankind are continually pointing
us to the State of Name as a proof of
their assertion, and then they trium-
phantly eXclaim that prohibition does not
prohibit anyway. Well last Saturday we
had over 1900 visitors and pleasure seek
ers on the island celebrating the GLORIOUS
4th," and yet there was not a single per-
son seen the worse for liquor, not a single
row and not an arrest during the entire
day. | went over to the city and witness
ed a game of baseball between the Port
land and BiddefOrd clubs and although
there were over $500 spectators present
there was not the remotest sign of drink
ing or drunkenness anywhere. Thus in
city and country ii was a day of unmn-
gled pleasure, undisturbed by anything in
the shape of intoXicants. How many arrests
would there have been made for drunken
ness IN II similar crowd celebrating Do
minion Day in Sherbrooke | also con
versed with IA minister last evening, who
has travelled and preached throughout
this State for the past twenty-four years,
and he says that during that time he has
never seen an open bar, or a sign indica-
tive of the sale of liquor, and very, very
seldom ever seen drunken person. Oh,
no. prohibition does not prevent interested
whiskey men from deliberately deceiving
the people about the effects of prohibit
tory law but it does, here at least, prevent
the drunkenness and the disgraceful and
sickening scenes so familiar to us in anti
Scott act cities and counties in Canada,
and in every other place where intoXi-
cants are freely sold. Let us not, then,
be deceived by interested parties, but let
us carry on our victorious war against
King Alcohol, and we will soon see fol
lowing in the wake of the Scott act, the
triumphant day when we shall have pro
hibition pure and simple from one end to
the other of our beloved Dominion,
I
From the Newport Express
! We have conversed with many of the
veterans who attended the encampment
at Portland, and all report most orderly
gathering. Hardly drunken man was
seen in that vast crowd 1t was a wonder
! to many that such was the case, and that
there was so little evidence of strong
! drink. We have no doubt that intoXicat-
| ing drink could be procured in Portland
hnf .,tl
we are of that fanatical class who believe
that the quiet and good order of that
gathering was due in great part to the
fact that the prohibition laws in Maine do
prohibit and have great force in restrain
ing drinking habits with all their train of
evils, and in establishing quiet, peace
and good order. Drunkenness is not pop
ular in Maine, all efforts to uphold it and
make 1t so TO the contrary nOtwithstand-
ing. Human nature and the tendency to
this evil is no doubt the same in that
State as any other, but the fact that
there is less drunkenness in Maine (and we
believe this facp is largely due to her pro-
timent law and an advanced public sen
hibitory back of it.
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HOW 1T WAS!
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through the left leg and was sent to the hos
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pieces of bone, and for years | have suffered
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nv limited means would al low and experience