CONCERNING LEWISTON.
The evidence concerning Lewlston, a town of about 22,000 inhabitants, and the second largest in Maine, is equally definite and serious. The Deputy-Marshal of the city said : — During Mr Ncwell's administration, in 1892, we had four depijjes, two from the State and two from the county. I have known these men go round the streets from one saloon to another and collect their monthly fees for the protection of the rumeellersf They would take ten or fifteen or twenty dollars, according to agreement. It ■was done in broad daylight." Commenting on these facts, the joint authors say: — ''The mischievous moral effects of an uuinforced law are in themselves sufficiently serious to constitute at all times a grave social danger, but in this case the evils have not been confined to a mere contempt for law, but have developed into a callousness of public sentiment, and a corruption of public service, which are of the gravest possible character.'' 1988
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 6647, 20 November 1899, Page 1
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