The Forrest City times., 1908-07-31

as well as blind pigging is about tn e same. 50 per cent More often greater.
 One of the most glaring examples of the inetficiency of prohibition in this New England State is shown i'll Frank lin county, where out of 1l2 commit. ments, 6l were for intoxication and conducting speak easies.' Of the latter there were 2l This is an in- crease over 1906 and the percentage of drunks to the total commitments is about the same.
 In Knox county 50 per cent out of the Is commitments were because of liquor.
 Oxford county's jail population of l3l had intoxication and Illegal liquor selling charged up against l04 of the number. In this small county there were no less than 26 doing time for il- legal liquor selling.
 Out of 69 commitments in Somerset county. B looked upon the wine when it va Sred.
 Washington county, with Jail pop ulation of PA had g who acknowledged to lntoxication and illegal selling.
 So the report runs all through the list Of sixteen counties, intoxicatiOn and illegal selling being responsible for over one-half the Jail commit ments. And all this in prohibition Maine, too.
 II BLIND PIG,
 In the whole State. Al persons were committed for blind pigging Of the sixteen counties not one was free from commitments for violation of the non-selling law In Androscoggin county alone III persons did time for selling lntoxicants. Rather a sad con- mentary on the effectiveness Of prohi- bition.
 All the report of the Maine Jail and Prison Board has to do with is cam- mitments. It has no record of ar rests or fines imposed for the year: if these were known, the conditions would be shown to be even more start ling. Of those arrested, it is safe to say that one-half paid fines for intoxi- cation, some were discharged after a lecture and others placed under bonds to keep the peace. These, however, are not considered in this story
 MINNESOTA A SOBER STATE
 In order to make comparison with Minnesota where high license prevails and where there is just as strict an enforcement Of the law as in Maine 1t is necessary to pit forty-nine eoun- ties in the North Star State against Maine's sixteen. This makes area and population equal. These forty-nine in clude the First, Second. Third and Seventh Congressional Districts. and four counties in the ninth.
 5;f0r these forty-nine Minnesota counties the 1907 reports received note only l4s9 commitments, Jail and prison included, and of this number only 605, and only 10 per cent, were because of the abuse of intoxicants. This total covers all commitments for ali classes of crime and misdemeanOrS
 Of those arrested for blind pigging the number was insignificant. Not over live counties had arrests or com mitmentS for such, and they repre- sented mera fraction Of the whole
 And yet in prohibition Maine there were 5769 commitments, of which 203- were for intoxicatiou and III for con ducting speak easies Still the anti liquorite says prohibition prohibits
 SUPREME COURT Vs \. 4. PALMER.
 In recent speech made at Winona x. A. Palmer, aperintendent of tn, Anti-SaloOn League said:
 There are nine times as many il legal sellers in licensed territory d there are in prohibition territory"
 let, note the answer as unwittingl made by Chief Justice Start. of tn Supreme Court of Minnesota, in al opinion given by him covering viola tlon of the Minnesota liquor law