The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-09-11

VI 0olAy poIdLiOnS, MOCeraJe ana 1mmOQ6r-
ate enough to maintain himself in silly
drunkenness"
The doctor also says that he has learned
OF several cases where neighbors have
formed syndicate" and bought their
liquor together and shipped it into the
state and then divided it among them.
These men under the prohibition laws of
Maine are becoming their own LIQUOR deal
ers, and the custom is more general than
everybody knows. The doctor says that in
the town of his birth, in Maine, town
formerly of good repute, ''every young
man is drinking" Runners from Boston
liquor stores, it is reported, go from town
TO town IN the night taking orders. "They
know their own" remarks the doctor.
and are known of them" and seem to
prosecute their business with little incon-
venience. Moreover, the gentleman is of
the opinion that the Maine law, which does
not concern the drinking of liquor, hut
only the transfer of it by sale or gift-win
De unable to deal with this new develop
ment OF intemperance where every man is
his own liquor dealer development which
represents sphere Of personal liberty
into which the law has never presumed to
enter. 1.-The law" remarks the doctor.
mas never presumed to order-as some
nave assumed it did order what man is
TO eat or drink. The Maine law permits
man to drink all the rum he may wish, but
1t does not permit him to sell a drop of
rum IN maine. If, as a result of
MS lntemperance, he disturbs the peace,
ne Is liable to arrest; but he is liable to ar
rest, not for drinking rum, but for disturb
the peace"
About the time DR.. TIMING was writing
his article another writer in the Bangor
Commercial said:
That while another class of citizens were of
old wont to go to saloon and take a glass or
two OF beer, they now send to Boston and have
The liquor sent down by the.gallon, and rs
hard" liquors can be sent better than beer,
they take what they were in the habit of drink
ing before, and keep constantly on hand
liquors, a source of evil even to themselves, in
100 many cases an inducement to drink and in
lar more numerous instances, putting the temp
tation IN the way of boys, who were unaccus-
TONED to see liquor in the house. The family
supply, the kitchen saloon, the bottle carrier
and manufactured articles now sold here, are
among the results of the prohibitory law.
And ask the Herald "a Portland prohibition
JournaD TO say it is not within it's own knoyl-
cage at least within the knowledge of the local
editor OF the paper, for he is out among men
and sees something OF what is going on. that
the business OF sending liquor rom Boston to
Portland, has become of great magnitude? If
1t Is not practically within the knowledge of
every citizen of Portland that q class seldom
but Slightly tempted before is now directly
tempted to drink? If Gs matter of fact it is
not as easy to get liquor by the gallon from
Boston, as it ever was to get it by the glass
from one Of the Commercial street saloons?
Such are the evils which arise from the
attempts at prohibition. 1t is but fair to
say that the friends of prohibition claim
that before the scheme can be success it
must be adopted not only in the states, but
by the nation as well; that the law must
not only prevent the transfer by sale or
gilt OF liquor, but must prohibit absolutely
its manufacture. The difficulty is that the
friends of prohibition demand measures
that make too great an invasion of personal
liberty; and it is questionable if the manu-
facture of liquor should be prohibited by
state and national law if that law would
not be as easily evaded as the law prohib-
iting its transfer by sale or gift. Another
thing which tends to make prohibition un-
successful is that once the prohibitory law
enacted it is taken. for granted that it will
cure the evil of intemperauce and those
agencies which operate through moral
suasion are very much or entirely
neglected.
That intemperauce is an evil all admit.
That sooriety is desirable all allow; but
desirable as it is, and thing to be priced
almost above all price, even sobriety must
not be purchased at the cost of breaking
down the bulwarks of personal liberty.
which would threaten US with more and
greater evils than even intemperance.