The Republican journal., 1885-04-16

TEMPERANCE WORK AND WORKERS IN PORT
LAND INTERVIEWS WITH MEssRs DOW
AND MUNSON. BRUNSWICK. EASIER SER
VICES IN CATHOLIC CHURCH. THE SALIVA
TIpN ARMY. BELFAST TO BE INVADED.
CORES >pondence Of the journal.
BRUNSWICK, April 9th. 1880. From Walnut
iiiIi we went to Portland and on the train met
+. f. Whitehouse, formerly of Unity. now the
New England agent of the Chicago & Atlantic
Railway with headquarters in Boston. While
III fortlahd we visited the temperance head
quarters and had il personal interview with
Mr. Mun>on, agent of the Law and Order Lea
que. AT the rooms of the League a busy scene
was presented. Some thirty boys We're waiting
Tor the Herald, the new temperance paper, to
be sent in that they might distribute it through
copies of the laws enacted by the last egl~la-
ture. and 20 a double amount of work is at
hand Mrs. Munson assists in the work and
the boys are not at all injured bv their tarrv at
IA place like this. Mr. Munson has undoubtedly
done grand, good work in enforcing the law
against the rum sellers in the city of Portland.
1t is claimed that he has done his duty in this
day last week he and Gen. Dow made an off
clai Visit TO all the saloons of the city, ostcnsibly
to gel a drink, but We're not able to obtain it.
We met Neal Dow and other prominent work
ers IN thls local movement and they claim that
there Is not now an open rum Shop in the cty
MIR. Dow was in very happy state of mind
and expressed the conviction that the business
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laws. He claims that there is no issue before
the people of so much national Importance as
that of tie legal prohibition Of the liquor traf-
NE, and that the political party which expects
to succeed III the future must make it a part of
their platform and sustain it too. In regard to
the recent election of Mayor in Portland they
claim that the Republican candidate would not
pledge himself to enforce the law in that city.
while Mr.. Deering did agree to do So and hence
the result.
As certain acts of Mr.. Munson recently have
been severely criticised. not only by his enc
mics but also by his friends, we took occasion
to converse with him in regard to the matter.
and find he claims to be governed solely by his
determined principle to crush the liquor bust
that men We're elected who would attend to
that duty. The fact is there is much excite
ment among the local workers in this move
ment for the suppression Of the dram shop, aud
from the outside we may not DE able to appre-
ciate the exact position IN which they are
placed. But with the conviction that these
men mean bust~eSS, whether their course is
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views, finished our business in the Forest City,
and came to Brunswick.
There is nothing to be seen here but rain and
mud ard slosh, and we betake oursef TO the
Hotel Brunswick where previous experience
has proved that good, plain, comfortable enter
tainment can be obtained at very reasonable
rates. The next morning we remember it is
Easter Sunday and the question is. where
Shall we attend church? Finding by inquiry
that the Catholic church of the place num-
bers some fourteen hundred members we de-
eide to go there Arrived at the church we
find some eight hundred people present. The
floral decorations We're very fine, and we were
certainly very devout people in their own
way. The priests with their young attendants
all dressed in their spotless white robes. the
display of delicate and beautiful drapery and
appropriate decorations, the chanting of the
prayers in the Latin tongue and the full re-
sponsive exercises by the choir, with the burn
ing tapers shedding their pale light over the
scene, all combine to render it solemn and inn
pressive exercise. We never attended SER