Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1908-07-20
DRINKS CONE HIGH
IN PROHIBITION
MAINE
$1,000 PENALTY FOR
SELLING LIQUID CHEER
Many Schemes 10 Beat Drastic
Laws Of Pine Tree State No
Prapect of Repeal Of Statute


Especial CarreAponaanos sierninx journal !
New York. July Ito Maine
the Pine Tree state-goes the record
OF the most expensive drinks on
earth when a noted gourmet recent
ly spent 81. 600 for Wines at "a dinner
given 70 twenty persons IN New YORK
Il WAS thought that the record for
high priced fi%batlpns had been brok-
IN. But Ia Maine q single drink
aul ono Of poor Whlskey 81 that
may cost 3B.Q00. Il isn't so eNpen-
rive ia buy as 10 sell. however. ana
the penalties which have been piled
np by thr law makers "a be- visited on
the head OF anyone who sells liquor
read like a modern inqulsitlon For
selling q single drink the following
things could De aone 10 the vendor
80 could De indicted on the grounds
Of search ana seizure, common seller.
nuisance. drinking house and tipping
shop. could b. fined -four or five thou
sand daliars and kept IN jail for years
III thar does not constitute a record
price FOR i single drink II is hard 10.
discover what does.
But Ia spite OF the most rigorous
prohibition laws ~ the country there
ia d good denl Of question az TO
Names real prohibition position. That
the laws are constantly evaded Is n
matter nf common knowledge. Their
existence on the statute books have
bred many queer Incidents IN their
evasion one effect has been to bring
INTO existence q form Of intoxication
peculiar to Maine which is common
~ called the 'jaky drunk" II ~
most frequently met IN rural districts
whore IN decorous language is known
az the %Jafnacla ginger ing AZ the name
implies Il results from copious con
SUMPTION Of fiery Jamaica ginger.
IN IL larger aspects the value Of
Names prohibition law Is open 10
question II not az a law certainly as
20 the manner IN which It has been
applied More distant states took upon
Maine as thc n%pothcosis Of %drYness, in
that state itself there "a much dis
cusHion Of the workings Of the law.
Dryness iusea some Of lts drouth
when viewed more closely and Names
title as the "dryest state ever" be-
comes a little less secure,
a Maine man, Mr.. Holman Day,
who has observed the working of the
laws affecting rum selling for the past
twenty wears, confeses In the August
number Of Appleton's magazine that
these laws have become wholly poll
teal. and have no longer a moral
bearing. Summing up the whole mat
ter he asserts that the results Of re-
cent political campaigncta have shown
that the folks Of Maine wanted pro-
hibition but didn't want It enforced
How true this opinion is has been evil
denced hy tho continuity with which
the prohibition laws have been Kept
on the statute books. aud even made
more stringent while az the same time
all sorts of means Of evadtnE them
were openly tolerated Maine. for in
stance. has developed a rapid transit
system SO remarkably rapid that u can
transport "a case OF uuuor from Boss
ton To the home Of the thirsty Maine
man la half an hour Numerous So
called express companies which have
up in various parts of tho
state, primarily for the purpose of ex
pressing liquor from Boston 10 Mainc
points whenever 1t might Do ordered
have now reached the point of keep
Ing a stock OF wet goods on hand A
customer ordering q ease of beer for
example O. Immediately supplied from
the stock on hand. his order being
used simply 90 Keep the supply up
Ia some cases 10 such "a wonderful de-
was this rapid transit car
ricd that % man would order q single
drink from Boston through one of
three express companies and receive
in about minutes la yariou.
states, tae Appleton article explains
the Hanror plan is followed. Under
thc arrangement which takes its name,
from the city which has s|toadfastlY
90 go dry u certain uumbrrl
Df places nfo allowed by the officials
to dispense liquor Twicp "a vcir the
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