Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1891-01-08

VII ' oiuet d. Susuiils Vi HAligor favored
the people Of Ellsworth with two very able and
interesting addresses at the Unitarian church
on Sunday last. His afternoon address was
sermon, the subject of which was III man
+ die shall he live agsin?" This subject he treat
| ed in a very >kilful logical and interesting
manner His discourse abounded in strong
points and was most highly appreciated by the
| good-sized audience in attendance. His eveu-
| ing temperance lecture brought out a very
large audience. The subject of his address.
"A Remedy for the Drink EVIL was handled
/ by master mind He said that in spite of
moderation societies, moral suason and total
abstinence societies the use OF intoxicating
1 liquor in this country has increased faster than
/ the population. Societies OF this kind are
therefore inadequate to deal with the drink
| evil. He denounced high license as wrong In
| principle and utterly useless in preventing in
temperance and drunkenness, presenting sta
| tsttcs in abundance 10 show that the percen-
! tage OF drunkenness is not more In low than in
| high license cities. We must crush the saloon
power which is constantly growing more inso
| lent and aggressive or 1t will crush US. That
! power is willing TO compromise on high-li-
cen,e; but nothing is ever gained by COM
promise with wrong. The people OF thi, coun-
try compromised again and again with slavery
in the years gone by, and every time they COM
promised they riyeted more firmly the shackles
of the slave, and when the end did come, 1t
came only at a terrible cost OF blood and treas
ure. So il is with the drink evil. Every time
we compromise on high license we make mat
tiers so much the worse. High license is not
| only wrong in principle. but it is utterly in
consistent with the practice OF common right.
As well and as consistently may we apply
high license TO the brothe and the gambling
den a. 10 the saloon. Local option, which gen.
orally accompanies high license, i'll not work.
Prohibition in Maine and high license in most
| other states cannot wholly remedy the drink
evil even in Maine. National prohibition is the
only adequate heroic remedy which can libcr-
ate the American people from the terrible
thralldom of the ssloon and the evils of intern
porsnce. 1t was mastery argument, strong
in every point aud one to which no friend Of
high license can successfully reply. In fact
hi position in the main is absolutely invinci-
bic against any argument which can be brought
against it.
The poor despised tomcod Is making his
annual visit up the river, SAYS the Cherryield
correspondent Of the NdchiGS Union, but not
heretofore to be simply caught by the boys
and then left to waste his sweetness on the
foot-bridGe. This wear the New York epicure>
within thrre yveel. tif,v barrels of ,basa ,i.h
have b.pn forwarded 10 tho metronoIi. where
thcv 6nI = r..Jy marL,t ~ ihrrc dollar. y
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AT meeting OF the stockholders Of the
shore Line Railroad COMPANY held at Macbias,
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the humber OF directors 10 nine; voted. 10
procure extension of present charter Som.
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tho ArL,,,.,. Tr,,rer" /. Nil ina, rouid he
desired Mr. t,h,ufr4u and comp.uv were
greeted by a l,r,e audience who listened to the
urntn,ne ouIetly hul who's. appIause wa, nor
,fiIt.j after the first act The appearanrc Of
TIN, INDIE and tn. Nsor Wa, the signal for
.hotii. Of innghier and .pa.m. OF hand rlap.
an appreciatcd feature and wa> encorcd sever !