Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1890-04-24
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vas sent. but he VS. nst esiied upon 70
testify To him 50 xisc - Rsv Brss. J.
B. Lspaam Of Kis.ery ard Waller Is Slsu-
dogs Of York, oar c Sum.sf=s are Indebted
for valuable aid.
OF seventy eight cases carried up iron
our cou-ts 90 lav questions oniy one was
remanded daring the year ard ir thu. one
the onlS evidence upon VT ch conviction
<ss had sss the "a, m-r: Of tee special
sax The court te.d suheaarizliy, that. As
the evidence of fact was for the ju-y to
con. ideY, il they ~ere 10; ssslsne Tbs. the
respondent had sold. rot sifhs,snaips the
Say mens OF this tax. they we're TO, var
fanted in conric;ing- 4 deci1i3a &c which
30 good, hons.t, temperance worker cAn
rxcegt
At the Presqae isle session the resolu
lions adopted effected much. From Knox
county Major Hevir. County Attorney.
protested u Governor Burieisa that 80 far
- any blame attached TO himself thu crir
cisn Vas unjust Asjor Hewitt: deserves
the lasting honor OF All friends Of prohlbi-
ton. He employed = private defective
,pon the rec ,mmepdation Of this comui
zee. A. the September term OF court. 1889.
ne secured the imprisonment OF seven rum
.ellefs ami brought into the tre asusy of
Knox couaty q 800 Says = proniioeni
u sod Temp!Ar in 4 private letter, ''Ssch Q
record never had an equal in the history OF
prohioitory enforcement in knox couaty."
Your committee would recommend the
passage of such = resolution as will assure
Maj r levitt of our hesrts approval of his
rs cord OF other officers aud other coun.
esy your committee cannot personally .peAs
xcepi of York. Never did 9 more
horou' hsoing, honest, hard worker, com
msnd = better company Of men imbaed with
fuller confidence in q leader that Sheriff
Hamilton of York county found in his dep
ute, ard County Attorney Burbank
OF enforcement 10 Bangor and Penob
| scot county your committee have no de
ills. The committee of seven have dor Z
nsrd work. The task Get Hercules. q
cleansing the Augean Stables, immense
though it was, seem. bu, light when com
JARED with theirs. Hercules By chAusin.
the course Of the river accomplished III,
t.sk. Could she committee oi s-ve1 turr
the Psnobscut ard kendusk.ay from theil
DIS they might = feet as radical change
Uufortun ately, however, this ca' not be II,
aud we must await The action OF less en-
ergetic or =; least he-oic measures
The last annual re port of this committee
~as quoted q; ieugth BY the Boston Glob,
and Herald and used BY orators in IN,
Massachusetts Prohibltorr Amerdmen
| camp iign to show that Prohibition die
rot prohibit even in prohibition rid lei
Maine" The Herald and Globe both with
uuch gustO announced tina. in the prohibi
tory state of Maine there were more licensel
rum shops than in license Boston, seem
lngly forgetting the fact that the psymen
of U. 8. tax is no license to sell. Botl
these papers persistently. and, in my opn
ion, willfully misrepresent the work ny, o
our prohibitory law.
| As a sample fa'sehoOd, the Herald pub
lished about year ago, or perhaps more
the state ment that in Blddeford there wer
one hundred and eighteen open rum shops
This statement was made in the face of tn
fact that only twenty-six persons had pal
a United States tax during the year, a.
that Sheriff Hamilton ard Ills lie Duties wer
actively engaged 10 enforcement, ss we'll Il
in the face of the. still more sisrirg i'm
probability that the United es Marsha
would. with his two resident depu'ias. al
low ninety persons in his own smsll city t.
openly violate the United Sts'es law.
Let US now briefly summarize the ,ea'
work: