Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1880-03-15

State "a. subjected to degree Of excitement
.Ir,css Unknown. when this capital was crowd.
~ lin hundreds and hundreds Of men. ana /
humsn passions were aroused 70 the hige
ds.ree almost. will concede that it vas thing
to Congratulate ourselves upon tnAt IN inc
midst of all it was sober essemDiase y,
n.onie that mes here. was IN ana oe!, anu
on he street and With the crowd. ana I'M.
pressed itself upon me every DAY. tnaI II va
30 different from what might nave eeen IoIu"
n many states, in that sobriety rules,
I. great testimonial Of the temper
.nce character of the people Of the State ol
Maine. whoever undertakes to break up
hi. order of things or to break down the II"
= IN make an SYNONYMOUS failure.
But. Mr.. Speaker. in this cause, Is IN every
other great moral cause, you should De care
fnl that the enactment of laws IS NOT carrieu
too far. that YOU should not strain SO tnat oy
and bv there should come reaction, tnat
laws upon laws should not be heaped upon
the .,afute book, which, in the end, will harm
the cause of temperance
There are several things in this bill that
am bound. in honesty to state, that 90 NOT
like. am afraid Of their effect, not only
in the far but in the near future. 90 NOT ike
the provision in section ., allowing the gov
ernor to remove an elective omccr, eiecteo .!
the people of his locality. You cannot ee'
a comfy attorney or a sheriff into ONCE I'M
less a majority of the people where he resides
elect him. don't believe it constitutional TO
remove him by the action Of the Governor.
Rut setting that aside, do not like the prin-
ciple of simplifying the power Of removal OF
n nublic officer elected by the people.
/ do not like the cider clause in this Oil,
and I fear the result. think and fear that
AS time goes by and men reflect upon 1t, that
This class of men who are earnest and active In
the temperance cause will, in the end, be-
come disaffected with it, and that it will tend
to ALLEVIATE them.
do not like the provision for an additional
cor stabulary can see under it operations
that might tend to make prohibition ana the
cause Of temperance offensive, in the intro
duction of additional officers by appointment,
the expense it would entail upon the counties
and State, and the danger that always arises
when local officers are interfered with by ofn-
GERS appointed by another source. There
has been one experiment Of that kind in this
State and it has been tried in other States,
and it never resulted well for the cause OF
TEMPERANCE. And for these reasons l am
bound to say that do not and cannot favor
the bill.
do not expect that anything that or any
one can say will hinder the passage OF the
measure can see what the sentiment is in the
other body and in this body. 1t would be an
easy thing, speaking for myself. to remain in
nv seat or to absent myself and not be
present when the vote is taken; but find
myself, Mr.. Speaker, earnestly impressed
with the dangers that have inadequately
stated to the House.. l truly and sincerely
fear danger will come to this great moral
movement from excessive legislation.
know that all great moral movements have
been retarded more by extreme measures and
movements of their earnest and honest ad-
vocates than by anything else. l know that
the cause of human liberty, to-day is less far
advanced than it would be had there not been
attempts to proceed too far. l know that
religion has been put back time and time
again by attempting to strain the operation of
the moral forces under religion too far.
don't believe, as great as the temperance
cause is in the State of Maine, that it it ex-
empt from these rules that apply to all great
moral movements. And finding myself pos
sessed of this sentiment and this belief, and
finding myself fully possessed of them.
have felt that should stand better in my
own tribunal, although / subject myself,
am aware, to blame and fault-fnding, to rise
here and state them and give the reason for
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and the result would be break Nc oh;ectod
also to the provision for a constabularv and
said it had been tried once and had failed A
force such as proposed would come in conf,;ct
with local officers and the result would he
bad. He also moved to strike ont the whole
of sec. 3. which is the cider clause.
Mr.. ExMoSs of Limington said there were
five cider mills within a mile of his nlace of
residence. but the most of the cider Is made
into vinegar. There were. bowever c;der
nuisances in his town. so that there conld not
be a town meeting without Is or 100 men
roaming round. through the fields. As a
farmer he felt that if any amendment was
made to the temperance laws. this provision
in regard to cider should be included
Mr.. Staples of Parsonsfeld Ala M. IN