The traffic lingers secretly only in the larger towns and cities, where it leads a precarious and troubled life--only among the lowest and vilest part of our foreign population.

Nowhere in the State is there any visible sign of this horrible trade.

The penalties of the law, as they now stand, are sufficient to extinguish the traffic in all the small towns, and to drive it into dens and dark corners in the larger towns.

The people of Maine now regard this trade as living, where it exists at all, only on the misery and wretchedness of the community.

They speak of it everywhere, in the press, on the platform, and in legislative halls, as the gigantic crime of crimes, and we mean to treat it as such by the law.
For some years after the enactment of the law, it entered largely into the politics of the State.