The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1892-02-18

| undertaken. We women cannot aid with
| our votes, though some of us might be glad
| to, but we propose to show our colors and
stand for the right against all evil The
men who rob our sons of their manhood and
| our daughters of domestic peace can expect
no quarter from u.s. An Almy in our midst
| would be hunted down with shot and shell ;
| but worse than Almy comes into our midst
| who makes a business of running whole
| families, making drunkards, paupers and
| criminals by the wholesale. And he. for
sooth, through some technicality in the law
or connivance with friends in power escapes
the just deserts of his crimes But the day
| of reckoning will surely come, as it did with
slavery. We trust not in blood and carnage,
but come it must, else we shall become a
nation of drunkards, for there is no Mason
and Dixon line in the temperance question.
No north, no SOUTH no east, no west, unless
the Mississippi River be taken as the divid-
ing line. For west of that river statistics
tell us there is one saloon to every AZ voters,
while east of that river there is said to be an
average of one saloon to every 1O7 voters
How that average holds in Belfast have no
knowledge, lut Judge it to be not far from
the truth.
Friends, nothing hut IA sense of imperative
duty las led me to speak to YOU to-day on
this subject, the feeling that to Keep silence
longer was almost criminal and | stand
here To bear witness of my interest in the
work and my Willingness to do Whatsoever
WlIHll me Hes fbr Tile advancement OF the
cause OF temperance in this our fair city.
Rev. Il. I, Hack, of the congregational
church, was down on the program for am adj
dress. but ON being introduced said he had
no address, but would give a temperance
sermon which he delivered before his society
a few weeks ago He said that te1nperance
was a question of morality, not one of part
,,li ~.
ance question from moral stand point
He said that in business temperance men
only Were wanted. A man advertised for a
person to run a brewery and said only total
abstainer need apply He claimed that pro-
hibtion does prohibit in Maine. The liquor
consumed in the United States is Sl6 per
capita, while in Maine it is less chan 50.
Under the former, SIG per capita, Maine
should consume S11 100000 worth yearly,
while statistics show that only 81 OOO, 900 is
used here. Prohibition cuts off O,0O0 900
and saves 50 much to the people. He show
ed conclusively that a high license law is no
better enforced than prohbitory law He
would educate the people to temperance
The sermon full of meat and was we'll
received by the large audience.
Rev Myra kingsbury quoted Abraham
Lincoln, When he said this country could
not exist half slave and half free. She
thought with equal force it could not exist
half drunk and half sober.
Rev. j. a. Savage of the Unitarian church
contrasted the condition of affairs in Maine
and i'll the neighhoring provinces Of New
Brunswick. During a trip in the latter pro
vince he inquired ior many people he had
formerly known and almost invariably they
had met drunkard'S fate. At short inter
walls signs would lie seen from houses signi-
fying that the owner WAS a licensed liquor
deaer.
Brief remarks We're made by Rev. !. f.
Iilton, of the Baptist church, Mrs. Andrew
f.. Clark, Miss Mary Woods Mrs c. A.
Pilsbury and Mrs. David Alexander. the
latter recting a poem.
The meeting closed with singing America.