The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1881-12-29
Temperance Topics
IN MAINE.

All, or nearly all, of the newspaper opposition
to prohibition in Maine has come frotn the Dem
ocratic press boston Post
There were two arrests for drunkenness last
evening and the police made several seizures
portland Press Dec 10th
1t IS understood that the six governors of New
England are all total abstaners. Boston Post
Ne don [ understand 1t so In this state. Lewis
ton Gazette.
There IS evidently growing interest II ten
perance work, and we believe that the new year
will begin with indications that good number cf
our young men will turn over the new leaf of total
abstinence aterglIe Mall
Rum selling is carried on in several places re
gardess OF law in Waldoboro village, and drunken
ness is an every day occurrence, but We have no
EIowledga of any place that can Be prorely de
nominated liquor saloon doing regular bust
ness Lincoln County News
Lowell prohibitorV clergyman asserts that
"one can walk 200 miles in Maine and not see
rum shop Thai might be true of blind man
travelling in 'Roostck," but man with eyes
would aave 10 wink very vigorously TO DO it in
Portland or Bangor (Springiield Mass Union
he ul'ianu Au'eItiser suggests 'hdt as " IS
rnm shoDs that drnnkenness he tnaGe odInns hv
exrmnlary nenaIties Tbe mstter il ,qNrtb can.
si3arat,, N Fvidentlr onrnotb;po eb,,,11 Nc 4oDo
in this cnInmrnitv or eIsa ask tha, oil t.Ionaranca
laws be repealed as wa do not haliara tTat tha
omen violation of a law withont at Iaast a eh,l,r
Of enf5rcemr1t is a yood 4xamnla Rettar 70
have no law at all than law non e1forced fFa;r.
fnIt Jonrnar ! '''
Tho Pnrtiard Gloho !, oo-ro,+ IN sorio,, tno,
thev Tnaka ar a,re5ions hiTndar uha ,;yn an ~
orcat for Maine.s 3dvannad nosit;an ~ ~ 1,o
nerancs onestinn 70 Prohibfifion fI' Withnpt the
efficient AID of tba moral and adncatiorai aganoios
~. Io1r onrId ha,o ,ra;ioa h,t i;,tI H."
nIamentarv IN In,r,I aranc;os a1I o-oI, =" a. al
,natr f ~, hli oni,io1 If has no af1 u
o;o f af and - l1~1
Observation-Disclosures ~ at,ia ,,1rob r4 fD;, a.
rom News - - 'o'' ''''' DiiNs
II ;S sn,ooo,oa that Gov p,o;etod ,;b. ,,,, -
s,n ft ~ h;, otI - ~ =. Ny, "
m ,I @ !" Lo' "n.H
snrian nTncIir;ti.s H. 4noIin ,r, w. >,., UI(M
mnnr for The nnf,rran3pnt of nTohihitioI, asnncil
lv II his own city If Ransor whera tha law i
6nenlv Dotted lat him ;ss1,n i, nronl.rnatitr Al
nersins the Iau hrnakars or at iaaSi cnInrn;ss;, .
force of cons,ablns sntficiant IA anforca th IS
of tho Stata Thai rIad,,a r,oda hr Nv, GlIrarr
AZ the Angnsta Tnr1naranca Cnnyont;nn i; ,ot ~,
fulfilled The Governor NAV not he aware that
Nassrs IVA ana pow toan !, sorar hnot fp;d
Ton Zeps Nf '0''P 0'0A "''0e
Else" hEEE.
The Y Herald fagors a national commission
Of inquiry lEto the hquor traffic
A hQuOr license costs $1,000 in Nebraska a re-
strlclon amounting almost to prohibition.
Edward PaySon Weston, the great pedeStrlanc
taure, is lecturng IN England on temperance.
In two days Fail River elected democratic
Mayor, voted 10 favor OF hquor licenses, and had
two murders.
More than thirty Of the mining companies Of
Colorado make total abstinence a condition of EN-
p!"yment
The Wisconsin State prohibition committee
claim that one third of their vote at the Novpm-
Der election came from the democrats
Indiana is struggling for prohibitory liquor law
and some Of the prominent workers have written
to friends Of the cause in Maine to learn the work
ing ofthe law here
Women and whiskey' are the ruin of another
detaulting bank teller, Holloway of the Poush
keepsle National Bank. for whose dissipation the
bank pays so 600 in defalcated cash
The license papers in Massachusetts at present
very busy explaining that the reaction against
license doesn't mean ANYTHING in particular and
everything in general, except the obvious things
The rigid enforcement OF the liquor law at St
Adams, VT has virtually closed the town to out
siders for the hotels refuse to provide shelter or
food for travellers and the livery stable men refuse
to accommodate teams coming in from the coun
try
The Dominion Temperance Colonization Society
has applied to the Government for A tract of 600