The Republican journal., 1891-09-10

senator Frye made stirring temperance
speech al a meeting held in Lewiston last Sun
day afternoon. 1t is said to have been the
/ largest crowd ever gathered at a temperance
meeting in AndroScoggin county. The object
was the organization of a county temperance
league for the enforcement of the prohibitory
law. Senator Frye spoke cXtemporaneously,
and very much to the point. After an intro
ductory discussion of the general evil of in
Temperance, and a denial of the oft quoted
creed of many that it is the duty of each man
to look after himself and that we are not our
neighbor's keeper, the Senator said
NO one in this audience will differ with me
relative to the evils of this Moloch monster in
| temperance, unless perhaps it be the rumseer,
, ard ask: Is he entitled to an opinion? Is his
opinion worth anything? My deliberate judg
ment is, and measure my words, that there is
no worse man to be found than the rumseer
and so far from bis opinion being worth any
thing in this question as to whether liquor shall
| be sold freely over the bar to whosoever wishes
to purchase, | say that if every rumseller in
the country were in Jail to-day the country
would be 10000 times better of than it now is"
| 10 plead the cause of the deyotees of tenn
| perance Senator Frye commended the fanatics
a. a class, and said of Neal Dow There is no
man in America who has tormented me. poiti-
caIly, more than be. lie is always making
thru>ts at the Republican party-morning. noon
and night-bdt say, that if he will keep on
sticking the knife into the rumseller at the same
/ time, he may keep on tormenting any political
/ he chooses ,ol =, no
| fanatics. Neal Dow started this law, and it is
The best law in the world; the only enemy of
the rum>eler, and the law that has made Maine
pre-eminent in the suppression of liquor selling,
not only in America, but throughout the wide
! world Senator Frye claimed that law was
| the only remedy for the evil of intemperance:
denied that the habits Of Europe tended to tenn
/ perance, because of the prevalence of Hight
wines and beers; asserted that France was de-
| teriorating by ab>inthe drinking. Italy by cheap
and strong liquors. Germany by brandy, and
held that the German Emperor was alarmed 10y
the increase Of intemperance, and was issuing
1 edict> tending toward a reduction in the grow
| ing consumption of spirits.
| License is no remedy be said. ''Liquors
| sold under license intoXicate as quickly as
when sold illegally under prohibition Glas-
gov, in Scotland, licenses. but when in Scot
| land ] was prevented from seeing the great
! iron ship building plants in operation, because
of a fair held for but one day in that city For
! thi> fair the Workmen saved 50 much and
! drank 50 hard that the great ship building
! plants, employing 1000 mep had to shut down
| eight days until the men got sober. IF YOU
! license rum drinking to make men sober, then
why not license thieVng to make them honest
! and prostitution TO make them yirtuous." He
related A conversation he had with the late
| Hon. Alexander H. Stevens. in which the dis
| tingui>hed Vice President Of the Southern
! tonfederacy told of the county of Liberty,
Ga. which bad the first iron clad Temperance
| law ever passed in America, over 20 wears ago.
This county" said Mr. Stephens, was the
| happicst richest, best educated. most orderly
county of Georgia, and the year | lived there
was the only yea Of my life | remember In
which was perfectly WE'LL
In closing, Senator Frye called on the Mayor
and the county executive officers to enforce the
law, and ended with powerful eNhortation to
the people TO stand by the laws.