Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1915-05-27
youthful Instructors"

Does a cry of Sheriff raised a
warning TO persons in house about to
be searched for liquor constitute an OBJ
struction Of the performance of officers
duty? That question has been raised ir
the municipal court in Portland Judge
Bates has decided that such warning is
an offence under the law but an appeal
has been taken from this decision.
Members ri the sheriffs force allege that
in this case they were about to enter a
house ir which, they had reason to believe,
ognized the officers and raised the cry of
Sheriff" Immediately the doors of the
house were barred and the sheriffs were
considerably delayed in effecting an en-
trance. They say that the delay was suffi-
cient TO enable the occupants of the house
to dispose of any liquor they might have
had. The arrest of the boy who gave the
alarm brought the matter to the attention
OF the court.
The boy was doing what many another
youngster has done. One of the evil eff
DRY law in the cities has been the disrespect
fo- law created in the minds of the young.
There are sections of Maine cities in which
boys and girls are taught to join in con-
of the prohibitory law. At the sight of the
officers. the warning cry is given. If it
prevents seizure, the children of the
neighborhood feel that they have done some
that Is not likely to lead to respect for
other laws and the officers charged with
their ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Sentinel.
Our up river exchange very adroitly
encourages the practice of preserving
the illicit business in defiance of law,
by mounting that old sickening claim
Of 'disrespect for law created by pro-
hibition. 1t is such editorials as the
above, written in support Of the liquor
business and for the purpose of Great
ing "disrespect for the law" that
have encouraged young product Of the
traffic to resort to such as the port
land offence. The obvious purpose of
the above is to give comfort to the
offender and to encourage others to do
the same, to prove their rum trust
''disrespect" for the peoples laws.
where boys and girls are taught to
prevent enforcement Of the law" The
ones who teach them write as the
above quoted, to put the idea Of such
outlawry in the minds of the rabble.
The rum trust in this State and all
others, has long been ready to pay
we'll for such services.
What Is the above quoted editorial
but contempt Of peoples law, con-
tempt Of all endeavor to enforce the
peoples laws, contempt Of court, and
purposeful lesson in defeating the
intent Of the law and in creating
"disrespect for law"
1t is without question an attempt to
discredit the law because the rum
trust and it's tools hate law. They
hate prohibitory law because it pre-
vents a rich harvest from the pockets
OF their poor dupes.
Any thinking person ought to know
why the liquor interests and their
paid tools are forever attacking the
law and encouraging violation of it,
If the liquor interests could make as
much money under prohibition as
under rum trust-made license law, do
you suppose they would spend millions
annually in attacking. prohibition and
for articles carrying just such sophis-
try and contempt of law and courts,
as the above-uuoted editorial?