Author: Ernest Barron Gordon

Publisher:

Published: 2015-07-06

Total Pages: 130

ISBN-13: 9781330800577

Excerpt from The Maine Law The men who devised the Maine law may justly claim Cotter Morison's title of "moral inventors." Yet no invention has ever called forth more opposition and ridicule than theirs. To many it has seemed in the field of social reconstruction what perpetual motion is in the field of mechanics, - a thing that simply will not work. Prejudice, tradition and financial interest have ranged themselves against it. Many confusing factors have entered into its history and workings to perplex those whose natural sympathies are with legislation of this type. In an interview in the Wheeling Intelligencer (Oct. 26, 1883), Gov. Robie, the then chief executive of Maine, remarked: "It is really very difficult to get all the facts of the case. Almost every man forms his own judgment and it is likely to differ from that of almost every other man." In reading carefully upon this subject, however, certain things of which we can be fairly sure, gradually stand out. These we should summarize as follows: 1. That the alcoholism of pre-prohibition Maine was of a desperate type. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.