Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1915-06-29

transportation business TOT It's earn
tngs. The burden Of proving the
guilt or innocense Of their patrons is
not thrown upon them. The express
companies when furnished lists Of Of
fenders-names of parties having
court record-refuse TO accept ship
ments Of liquors to their addresses.
But such parties Immediately have the
stuff come in the names Of friends, and
by what right would the express agent
then refuse such package?
Friends of our prohbitory law are
aware of its weak spots and the diff
Guilty Of overcoming all the lodges Of
a persistent traffic. We must be
patient with the best We can do until
further legislation, more far-reaching
in its application to interstate traffic.
and carrying teeth" can be secured.
Prohibitory laws are constructed to
reach manufacture and sale. The
purchase, possession and use of liquors
are not touched.
Some day we shall reach a degree of
common sense. moral courage, and
appreciation of the rights of the many
to defend themselves from the per
sonal liberty of the few, to restrict
the actions Of people who menace COM
munities. A long time ago we began
to restrain. with the quarantine law.
those who menaced others with dis
ease and did not care. We are now
preventing poor victims Of drug habits
from buying the stuff. We have a
great number of other restrictions for
hibiting the purchase. possession, use.
manufacture and sale Of obscene pic
lures and literature-and the day is
coming when we shall not allow men
TO make idiots, public charges or
criminals Of themselves just because
they want to do so, and because the
poison makers and sellers wish them
to do so.
But first we must shut off the ma
chinery that is engaged in the damn
able business of making demand" for
booze.
In substance, the law for which you
ask. provides:
That the shipment or transportation
In any manner or by any means what
soever Of any spurious. vinous. malt
ed. fermented. or other intoxicating
liquor Of any kind. including beer, ale
or wine. from one State. Territory. or
District of the United States, or place
noncontiguous to but subject to the
Jurisdiction thereof. into any other
State. Territory, or District Of the
United States. or place noncontingu
Gus to but subject to the jurisdiction
thereof. or from any foreign country
into any State. Territory or District Of
the United States. or place noncon-
tiguous to but subject to the jurisdic-
ton thereof, which said spirituous,
vinous, matted. fermented, or other in
toxicating liquor is intended. by any
person interested therein, directly or
indirectly. or in any manner connected
with the transaction, to be received.
possessed or kept, or in any manner
used. either in the original package or
otherwise, in violation Of any law Of
such State. Territory. or District Of the
United States. or place noncontiguous
to but subject to the jurisdiction
thereof, enacted in the exercise Of the
police powers of such State. Territory,
or District Of the United States. or
place noncontiguous to but subject to
the Jurisdiction thereof. is hereby pro-
hibited.
Sec. 2. That all fermented. distilled.
or other intoxicating liquor or liquids
transported into any State or Terri
tory. or remaining therein for use con-
sumption, sale or storage therein,
shall. upon arrival within the bound
aries Of such State or Territory and
before delivery to the consignee. be
subject to the operation and effect Of
the laws Of such State or Territory en-.
acted in the exercise Of its reserved
police powers. to the same extent and
in the same manner as though such
liquids or liquors had been produced
in such State or Territory. and shall
not DO exempt therefrom by reason Of
being introduced therein in original
, packages Or otherwise.