Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1911-09-14

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MAINE voted Monday on the question
OF retaining or rejecting its constitutional
provision forbidding the manufacture Oh
sale of liquor in the State. The first re-
turns indicated a victory for the liquor
people and they were jubilant. The fl
nal figures, however, show that the tenn
perance forces have won by majority o
from 600 to 1000.
The campaign was strenuous one II
Maine onthiS question. The temperance
people had hundreds Of speakers anc
used every effort to keep the State dry
The liquor people were more active thar
ever before. They flooded the State witt
literature and had secret workers busy
for months, finally concentrating their ef-
forts with an enormous corruption func
with which TO buy votes on election day
But their methods failed and they are bit
ter and sore over their defeat.
The law Officers in Maine have never
made the effort they should to prevnt
the illegal sale of liquor there, and as
consequence there are many "blind IL
gers" and "speakeasies" in that State
This condition OF affairs is directly at
tributable to the United States govern
ment, which does not hesitate to issue
licenses to sell liquor in dry territory-or,
in other words, authorize men to do I'M
lawful things. II is shame and dis
grace that Congress does not pass the
necessary legislation TO prevent the sale
OF liquor in those communities where the
people have said that il shall not be sold.
"THE wages of sin is DEATH" In the
darkness of night, on lonely road, with
no eye to see, save Gods, Henry Beat
tie, a wicked young man, killed his wife
near Richmond, Va, on July 18th. He
had carefully planned story to throw
suspicion from himself and fasten the
crime upon another. But no man can so
carefully cover his tracks as TO leave no
clue, and an avenging Nemesis followed
closely upon his heels. The unnatural
husband was arrested, whereupon was
revealed loathsome story Of sin and
diShonor and dissipation, OF intrigue with
a bad woman, and the motive for the
murder OF his wife was made manifest.
Then the officers of the law began to
weave around him a net OF circumstantial
evidence that grew tighter each day, and
in its meshes he became fatally embodied.
In his trial last week, before jury oil
country jurymen in Chesterfield Court
HouSe-a trial which attracted attention
in every part of the country, as the awful
crime had shocked the people throughout
the United States-the coils were drawn
so tightly that there was no escape. His
own story could not hold together-his
wicked life alienated sympathy, his own
actions condemned him. With simple
earnestness the jury first prayed that they
might not err in their judgment, and then
they balloted on the case, with full ap-
probation of the great responsibility rest
ing upon them. Every ballot said
"guilty," and the Judge upon the bench
pronounced Beattie inevitable doom
that between sunrise and sunset on the
oath of November his life should pay the
forfeit.
Virginia justice has again been exem-
plified, and Beattie will meet the awful
fate OF those other murderers, Cluyerius
and McCue.
"The wages of sin is death"-now, as
ever, in Virginia, as elsewhere