Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1905-03-02

| uOr law as far as you can enforce 4.
| by law. You cannot enforce the pro-
| hibitoTy liquor law anywhere unless
public sentiment stands behind it. In
| Cumberland county, if that county
votes TO enforce the plOhibitOry law
you can have it enforced il you have
public sentiment behind ii.
Are you going TO take the sheriff Of
| SagadahOc county, man who has al
ways done his duty--One of the grand
men of the State OF Mainc-a man who
has had the confidence Of the people of
| that county for 81 years, on the word
| of some poll-taN payer. some temper
| ance crank, who shall say there are
| places on this street where liquor is
| sold and the sheriff knows it, and who
goes before grand jury, or who goes
before the trial justice OF the munich
nal court, and takes out a warrant, and
binds that man over to the grand jury?
| is that a law Inherent in the people?
| do you want such d law as that up
on the statute book?-that in any city
| in the State of Maine il they want TO
| have 4 law enforced, that all they have
| got to do is to go before the mayor
| and alderman and make a compla int,
|
enforce tor his deputy sheriff does
not enforce it-that he is liable to a
fine? What more law do you want
than that?
l notice one thing in all these dis
cussicns. before the committees, that
men came in before the committee:
ana say we are in favor of a strenu-
Gus enforcement of the r,ohibitory law
l-mer who have lived 40 years in the
city of Portland, and who have never
once made IL complaint against any
body for the sale of Intoxicating liq-
uorG?
No'-they want to make themselves
rcpular.--by getting laws upon the
statute books. If You want the law On
forced in your cities. why. then. make
a complaint, rs yOu say 20 me. there is
70 sheriff in the State of Maine but
what will do his duty.
| They are all honorable men: 50 are the
county attorneys. and it is an insult to
them to say that the sher.fs of the sever
al Counties will not perform their duty.
\ sheriff gives bonds for Si0v0.
| believe in the inherent RICH: Of the
people. and the time may come when ii
you lut more laws on the statute book
in regard TO the sale of intoxicating Ii
quors they cannot enforce ii at all. be-
cause YOU are making ii TO-DAY so ridicu-
lous shat it disgusts The people and they
| will not enforce 1t.
| Why. there was a law upon the statute
book last year that whenever in any
| county the law WAS not enforced. then
| the PEOPLE elected Il man they believed
vice versa in others. If the county OF
Cumberland wants to put all the stress
and power of the law upon HE enforce
| ment of the prchibitory liquor law. then
ing to the platform OF the Republican par
ty, elect man upon that platform that
upon the matter in Cumberland county;
but he did rot prohibit il III Cumberland
county. as everyone knows
Consistency in this matter, Why. we
hal a Democratic sheriff. Mr.. President
elected in your county: and nobody will
say hut what he enforced the law as
if in the State of Maine: put what did
| they do when it came around to the elcc-
ton TO show their hypocrisy? He was
buried. and somebody else was elected.
| Now. If the county of Cumberland. or
the county of Knox, or the county of Lin
coin. or The county OF Sagadahoc. were
| concerned. if the man did no; do mis- duty
as a public servant. where is your RENE
| dy as given by the constitution and thu
law of the land? 1t is. turn them out OF
Office and put in somebody else that will.
Eut are you going to subject that man?
Why. no respectable man could hold Of
| fee under the law by this bill. because
| he would he subjected to fines and i'm
prisonmem. That Is not the worst part
| of it. but he would be subject TO every
| crank and | think there are some pretty
strong temperance cranks in the prohibit
lion party-so much so that no man would
| he safe to leave it to the people. and if
| the people of M county want to elect
a prohibition sheriff. why. let them 90 it,
if public sentiment justihes it. But shall
We put unon the statute book another
| law like this which would be inoIrcative?
| 1T could not he enforced because it would
he so ridiculous that nobody would en-
| force it. Who is going down to the
county where Senator Shaw lives and I'M
dertake TO say that John Railou. the sher-
| IF who stands second to none-it is an in
suit to him to say that he has in the p
| years that he has been sheriff of Sagada-
no; county ever corrurtly, and d:shonor
| ably refused to perform his duty. He
| will upon every preccpt he has put in his
hand. perform it to the satisfaction of ev-
erybody who gives him that prccert.
do not believe ii is any of the dut. Of tho
sheriff of any county to sperd all of his
time-Whdt would You say. Mr.. President
| if YOU were to make this law applicable
| to larceny. or anything of that lind-all
other matters. know at this session of