PROHIBITION VERSUS THE OHIO DOW LAW.
MAINE is a State poor in those native resources in which Ohio is rich; yet Maine is rich and Ohio is poor. In 1890 Governor Burleigh said: “No State has so little property under mortgage, according to valuation, as the State of Maine. There are whole counties in which there is not a farm under mortgage, and Maine loans more money than any farming State outside of her borders.” Governor Foraker said that the Ohio people were suffering dreadfully from their heavy mortgages, and that thousands of their farms were mortgaged for more than they would ever bring. Maine had, in 1891, $44,000,000 in her savings banks, or $66 per head of the population, while Ohio had but $6.00 to each person in these institutions. Maine forty years ago put her ban upon the rum-shops; Ohio, in spite of her constitution, has fostered and nurtured them.—Portland (Maine) Herald.