The Maine Law Advocate

Petitions.

We see it urged in the "Union" of last week, that the friends of temperance should at once set themselves at work to petition the Legislature for a Maine Law. We do not see with the "Union," a necessity for this. The Legislature elect has had, we should judge, a sufficient expression of the people already, and all the petitions that would be sent up, even was the number a hundred per cent greater than there is any possibility they would be, could not make the expression of the people a whit stronger than it is now. And again a considerable majority of both branches of the Legislature have been elected expressly to pass the law, and perfectly understand the fact, without being further asked to do so. It is a work that must cost, if done as it should be, not a little time and money, both of which, we think, can be employed more profitably in some other direction. If the Legislature want any further certification of the will of the people on this matter, they can get it out of the thousands of names already enrolled and on file in the office of the Secretary of State.