Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1880-02-13

10 all our common schools
/ The h-st, third, fourth. ard eight, ser'
adopted without discussion TIE second
nnh, sixth seventh and ninth ELECTED spirite.
discussion from J. s. kiInbaIl. Esq. Rev. F.
Martin. Y. r. Simonton- Esd. Mr. Sprsrt o.
Clinton. Rev ID. ". LeI.acheur, .. r. Chad
bourne, j. II. Greeley. A. x p. Buffum. r
| w. Dunn. Rev. W. 5. MeInfire. Jordan
Rand. {. f. Parker Friend Eli Jones. Rev
James Boyd. c. ID. Starbird. Rev. :. p.
Smith. Rev. Dr. Allen and L. W. Starbird
L. w Starbird Esq. Of Dixmonf. presented
the following:
hesoied, That committee he appointed 10
draft resolution or resolutions 10 be signed
by the officers of this convention. and for
warded 10 each Of our Senators and Repre-
sentatives IN Congress. requesting that Con-
gress take measures 10 investigate the
nature and effects Of the drink traffic. and
provide such legislation as shall forever sup
press it.
The resolution was adopted and Hon
Joshua Nye. l. W. SIarbirJ. Job Sanford.
j. W. Jacob. and Eli Jones were appointed.
}. ii. Mcdonald said he was willing TO
| stand as minute man. and aiwavs ready to
obey his superior officers. ne wanted politicians
10 understand that the people of Maine were
going to put down the accursed traffic
X. II. Murphy Of Portland, said he was
glad to stand before this convention and show
what ''law" can do. The probibitory law
had made him a temperance man. And so
long as God spared his life. he was going to
work for the temperance cause.
Jordan Rand of Lisbon, said he be-
lieved that the success Of the temperance
cause was in great measure due to the earn
est, efficient work of the active, vigilant I'M
firing christian men and women. That his
heart and hand were Sin the work.
Song. "A Light upon the shore.
\. j. Chase of Portland, said that these
gatherings here year after year, these meet
ings mean something, or they mean nothing.
10 no class Of persons does the question
Of enforcement Of law, so well apply as to the
men and women who suffer by the non-en-
forcement of the law. That the law upon our
statute book was well enough if it was en-
forced. Told some characteristic stories, and
| sat down amidst great applause.
Mrs. l.. NJ. n. Stevens, President of the
State Woman's Christian Union, gave some
earnest remarks. giving a synopsis of the
workings Of the Unions and auxiliary Unions
throughout the State. Believed that formation
was better than reformation; tina, is. it is
easier to train score of children Alright than
20 reform one drunkard, and we know of no
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books into our schools. More than a wear
ago the State W. c. +. L. adopted a resolu-
ton to this effect.
And we have met with great encouragement.
Cheering news comes across the waters too.
The School Board of Education in London,
Edinburgh, Brighton, Birmingham, and many
other towns have adopted the text book on
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.sncc;aIlv of children into a clear understand.
ing of the effects of alcohol upon the human
system, will be an effective means of under
mining the great evil of alcoholic intempcr
ance; therefore urge the introduction of
exact teaching on this subject into all our
public schools
Captain Joseph Garcelon of Lewiston said
that cider was causing all this trouble. Men
who manufacture this cider are doing more
mischief to-day than the man who manufac-
lures rum--in this. that 1t inctes an appetite
in the young for stronger beverages.
.. Il. Chadbnurne said so long as there are
broken hearts. so long as there are barefoot
ed children, so long as there are wretched
homes just so long will these earnest people
annually meet together in convention, and
hoped that he should live ts see the final ex-
termination of the accursed rum traffic.
President Nye, said this was grand meeting.
Since he had been in Augusta in all his
temperance life he had never met so intelli-
gent. enthusiastic an audience. composed Of
so much talent. and culture. and enthusiasm
as were represented at this meeting; through
out each session, the order and interest had
more fully attended than any sessions of
mass convention curing ms iscollee''o"'
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