New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-09-07
DENoUNCING THE RUM TRAFFIC.
SENATOR FRYE PLEADS FOR THE ENfOhOE"
OF PROHIBITION IN MAINE.

SENATOR FRYE PLEADS FOR THE ENfOhOhnHNA
OF PROHIBITION IN MAINE.
lewiston Me- Sept 6.-The largest crowd ever
gathered at temperance meeting in Androscoggih
County heard Senator Frye at tile Pine Street Congre'
gatonal Church this afternoon. Hundreds OF people
were turned away. The meeting took measures 10
organize county temperance league for the enforce
ment of the prdhibitory law. Congressman pinsiey
presided and In a brief Introductory address outlined
the object Of tbs massmeetlng and the need Of public
reawakenipg In regard 10 temperance. Senator Frye
smoke an hour and ten minutes After an Introductory
discussion Of the general evil Of intempeIance and "a
denial OF the ofQuoted creed Of many, that 1t is the
duty of each man to look after himself and that 1--WE
are not our neghbors' keeper the Senator said
No one In this audience will differ with me relative
10 the evils of this Moloch monster, lntemperance,
unless. perhaps, 1t be the rumseller and ASK rs ne
entitled TO an opinions Is his opinion worth anything
My deliberate judgment is, and measure my words,
that there is no worse man to be found than ne rum
seller, and far from his opinion being worm any
thing In this question as TO whether liquor snau be
sold freely over the bar to whosoever wishes to pur
chase say that il every rumeler in the country were
In ja today the country would be ten thousand tunes
better OF than it now is.
Senator Frye said Of Neal Dow
There Is no mau in America who has tormented me,
politically more than he He is always making thrusts
at the Republican party-mornng, noon and nght-but
the TuTascer al the same time he may keep on tor
menting any political party that he chooses. say
law and it Is the best law in the world, the only
enemy Of the rulnseller, ana the law that mas mahe
Maine preemiDeut III inc suppression
not only In America, but throughout the wide world
Senator Frye said that law was the only remedy for
the evil of intemperance denied that the habits OF
Europe tended 10 temperance, because Of the preva
lence Of light wines beers asserted that France
WIS deteIioratng by MISUNDERSTANDING, Italy by cheap
aud strong liquors, Germany by brandy, and he said
that the German Emperor alarmed by the increase
of Temperance anu issuing edcts tending toward
a reduction In the growing consumption of spirits
said the speaker
License is no remedy. Liquors sold under license
hibitlon GLASGOW in Scotland, licenses but when IL
scotland was prevented from seeing the great iron
shpbuildng plants in operation, because Of fair held
for but one day I'm that city. For this fair the work
men saved So much and drank 50 hard that the grea
ehpbuiding plants employing 5000 men. had TO shut
down eight days until the men got sober If yOJ
license rum-drinking 10 make men sober then why moi
license thevng 10 make them honest, and prostitution
TO make them vItuOus 4!
The senator related conversation he had with Alex
ander H. stephens, OF Georgia, In which the VicePresi
dent OF the Southern COnederacy told of the county
Liberty Ga. which had the first ironcad temperance
law ever passed in America, seventy years ago
This county," said Mr. stephens, was the happlest
ricnest besteducsted, most Orderly county OF Georgia
and the year lived there the OnlS year OF my life
/ remember in which was perfectly Weh.' In clos
ing Senator Frye called the Mayor and the county
executive officers to enforce the law, ana ended with
powerful exhoaon to the people TO stand by the laws