The Portland daily press., 1886-08-27
THRU paerv peou,eIr,on

One of the most powerful and conclusive
arguments against the Third Party move
ment which we have read for many day
was that made by the Rev. Mr.. LIE Lacheur
at the Richmond camp ground on Wednes-
day. Mr.. LeLacheur has been known for
many years as an earnest advocate of prohi-
bition and for some years past certainly has
been quite as ready to expose and denounce
any lack offaithfulness on the part of off
cials in enforcing the law as has Gen. Neal
Dow or Mr.. Volney B. Cushing. Nobody
can doubt that Mr. LeLacheur has the tenn
perance cause very much at heart-Quite as
much as Gen. Dow, and the other leaders of
this third party movement. But he disa-
gees with them as to the best method of adj
vancing it, Gen. Dow's method is to kill the
Republican party. The Republican party
having enacted the present prohibition law,
| and having amended it over and over again
to meet the views of the especial friends of
| temperance, having been instrumental in
| placing the doctrine of prohibition in the
constitution, and having enforced the law SO
well that the General can point with pride to
! the fact that there is not brewery in the
State, that the voleme of the liquor traffic has
decreased nineteen-twentieths, and that
Prohlbitionists of his way of think
ing can thank God that Maine is quarter
of a century ahead of States which license
the traffic. Gen. Dow thinks the Republican
party should be killed, with the inevitable re-
suit of turning the prohibitory law itself and
all the machinery for its enforcement over to
the Democratic party which avswedly hates
the law, and which is supporting man for
sheriff in this county today.>;yho is known to
all men to have nullifed The law. To man
of ordinary perception this looks like yerv
illogical course.
0en.P0w is styled the father of prohibi-
tloL. Some thirty or forty years ago he
began the agitation of the subject and
has kept it up ever since. Prohibition,
he believed, would prove panacea for
drinking and drunkenness, and he recon-
mended it as such to the people of the State.
Surprising some of the earnest advocates of
temperance should now assemble together
and adopt the following preamble and
resolutions:
~ whereas more than quarter of century ago
Gen. Neal Dow did suggest to the people of Maine
regal SuaSlon IN the shape of a prOhibitory iQuOr
law as cure for drinking and drunkenness,
Whereas largely through his influence and his
agltatlon OF the subject, this plan was adopted by
the people of Maine, -
Whereas since this plan was adopted breweries |
nave been ban1Shed from the State and tbe |
liquor traf1c diminished nineteen-twentieths: |
Whereas this State is twentytiye wears in az. |
any State in the Union
Whereas people still drink and get drunk, there
fore
Resolved, that we have lost all confidence in |
Gen. Neal Dow and his Method;
Resolved, that we repudiate him. and will for |
the future look for the advancement of the tenn
perance cause to men who for many years have |
method.
band of temperance men who should do
such thing as that would be set down as
very foolish or very insincere But closely
analogous to this is the performance which
the Prohibitionists who train with the third
party are going through with to-day. They
that great things have been
done for temperance by the Republican
party they acknowledge that the Demo-
cratic party is opposed to prohibition, that it
Is the party of the saloons, yet because the