Maine’s Success with Prohibition by Independent

Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Mar 22, 1883

Maine’s Success with Prohibition

By Independent

THE "Maine Law," prohibiting the manufacture and sale of intoxicating liquors, passed the Legislature of that State May 31, 1857, by a vote of 86 to 40 in the House of Representatives. On February 8, 1883, the constitutional amendment prohibiting the manufacture and sale was passed by a vote of 104 to 37. Notice the fact that the people of Maine have tried the policy of prohibition for twenty-five years, nearly a whole generation, and are so well satisfied with it that to-day no opposition can be organized to constitutional prohibition. The results are satisfactory, whatever is said to the contrary.—Independent.