The advocate. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1901-1913, 1912-10-17

Henry N. Prinsle. This. is what "a
said in the September, 1911 Outlook
on page 81: II have talked with two
thirds Of the thousand clergymen CT
Maine. and estimate that seyenty-f,ve
OF them and ten per. cent, Of the
ehprfh ; 1qt'e are opposed to pro-
hlbtition FIVE daily parers, 13 week
~ papers are opposed to prohibition
G%'o daily and Six weekly papers are
silent. T have 100 photographs of
Maine bar rooms, and have consider
aple knowledge Of the liquor business
throughout the state. Saloons are
conducted in seven Of the twenty
cities and ten villages, also there Is
selling In the towns and more omen
Y vending at limiting camps and along
Tote roads. have seen bar rooms
In Portland, Rockland and Bangor
which must have cost $1,000 for fur
nlshlng. L have heard that the 14O
wholesale liquor dealers of Boston
Bonfort's Directory, f.. .. 71-7s)
who have established mail order
business in Maine, prefer prohibition
IN this state. In 1907, 719 parties
paid United States liquor taxes in
l06i cities and villages. which is less
than the present number"
And Mr.. Pringle might have added
some of: these licenses are held by
social clubs, Of which there are not
less than $50, and with a. membe.-
ship of approximately 10000. He
| might also have stated rthatcno, GO ri
rate estimate can - made of the
quantities OF liquors coming into e
state daily by express ana the ouan-
Titles sold without tho trouble on the
part OF the dealer to takS out and paw
Tor a" United. States license.
Let me give you the conditions un-
der prohibition in the city of Lewis
ten, Maine, as seen through the eyes
OF Prof. L. G, Bateman, member Of
sshe-Patfens- of HYsbaaary news.
paper man and a public speaker OF
ability Prof. Bateman says: Take
the condition of Lewiston as one tx
ample. Never was there such \
reign Of corruption and public de.
oauchery as we now see. Rum shons
are wide open on every side, gamb,-
ing joints keep their watches at he
outside door to entice young men, to
their ruin, while brazen-faced den,i-
nlondes apply their trade, on our hub.
nc streets without even a rebuke
from constituted authorities. Thues
ana criminals are almost immune as
tney mold up men or knock down wo-
men,. Every element and sign that
marks the decay Of people are In our
midst. When the basic elements
contral either a nation, state or COM
mun1ty ruin and dissolution are not
far away"
The Kennebec Journal, one of the
leading prohibition organs OF thu
STATE, In commenting on this, said.
"lt Will occur to thousands Of read-
ers that Prof. Bateman, who knowx
the public pulse on Maine, is voicina
"a sentiment that is daily becoming
stronger"
The Keniebec Journal, COMMENTING
on the LIQUOR situation :. in. Somerset
City says editorially: Half sur
rounded by a territory in which or
metals brazenly nuIlify the law. Som
ertiest boozers are not troubled in Sc
curing the booze, but they are prompt
~ arrested when they become obnox-
lous to sober citizens in that COUNTY.
while In Kennebee and in several
other COUNTIES, such fellows are I'm.
molested by police officer, or are GENT
nome to avoid arrest, thus keeping
doWa the number Of arrests for drum.
kenness in notification cities and
COUNTIES. The following bit Of evil
dence from the Civic League Record
or Maine will also be Of interest In
one of their March, 1912 isues they
say: "A recent investigation in
WaterVille, Augusta, Gardiner, Halo
well and Randolph disclosed two
facts First a large number Of placos
were found where i,ltoxicants were
freely sold to strangers, where n
large STOCK of liquor vas openly kept.
Liquors are sold openly at forty
places in Waterville, over twenty Of
which are fitted with bars. Some 81
the influential dealers have OWL
enough to-. exempt themselves; their
oartenders and their goods from any
prosecution or officioi interference. ;
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