The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1901-10-24

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Army menare not all Of one
way Of thinking on the canteen
question. Major P. H. Ray,
commandment at Fort Smelling,
says: Il.
Chicago is finally aroused by
the possible microbes in cigar
aHstumps," and one Of the alder
men has prepared an ordinance
forbidding their collection from
the streets and cutters. If there
are any worse microbes" than
those contained in the nicotine
itself we. are glad that one, step
has been taken:to conserve the
health Of the smoker.
The sale of beer or any other
intoxicant is not necessary in the
army. In any form it is a nuis-
ance, caters to our worst ele-
ment, and is not conductive to
good discipline. 1 have never
favored the canteen or the gov
crnment engaging in the saloon
business for any purpose what
ever Beertdoes not improve a
soldier any more than it improves
asurgeon, a lawyer, a clergyman,
or any other decent and useful
man.
So much is said and written
by,oppcnents of the prohlbitory
law of Maine that it may be well
now and then to get a view of
one of the "opcn Saloons" The
Portland Express gives an idea
as to how prohibition prohibits
everything but the most ingen-
ious devices for concealing liqu-
or. Several officers instituted a
scarchin.th the living apartments
of a man suspected of selling
liquor. In a dark sink room, be-
tween the parlor andithe kitchen,
they found that, by turning a
screw the innocent faucets ran a
stream of water or of whiskey,
according to the demand. The
extra pipe connected with the
faucet was traced through a false
floor to a room above, where a
ten-gallon tank of1iquor was con-
cealed. The hole above the tank
was covered:with a family Bible!
Maine has little 70 fear from this
kind of an "open" saloon.
The brewers want a further
reduction of their war tax. Not
content with their almost $1O,-
100000 reduction, which took eff
feet the first day of July, they
now want to take advantage of
the fact that the tax receipts
have not fallen off as rapidly as
estimated. It was assumed that
the decrease would amount to
$4,000, 900, whereas for the first
two months-July and August
there has been a reduction of on
" $4,050,0G0, Cuba is also clam
oring for a reduction on the to-
bacco tax. Is it possible that
these two great soul and body
destroying luxur:es (), liquor
andtobacco, are to be fovored,
while the necessities of life stag
ger under the burden of excess
sivc taxation? Why should not
Congressttdrn the surplus rev.
enue, which the brewers wish
refunded, into government homes
for the maintenancc,of those who
arc bereft of their natural bread
winners through indulgence of
the appctits for narcotics aud
stimullnts?
Il is hard to satisfy some reo-
pie. A certain body of men have
for sore time been agitating for
the &c zeal of the Maine anti llq-
nor provision of the Constitution
because prohibition didn't pro-
hibit, a,d now they are working
equally hard for its repeal be-
cause it does. Sheriff Pearson
came into Office in Portland with
the beginning Of the new century,
hayi lg conducted a spirited can
yass upon the novel, or perhaps
we should say o1d-fashioned idea
t,at laws were made to be n
forced. Since that time prohibit
ton has prohibited in Portland.
Seven proprietors or bar-tenders
have been arrested and are in
jail or under bonds. Twenty
eight seizures have been made,
and for the first tins in years on