The Portland daily press., 1895-06-19

goddard, owen Dame, Charles ID. Thorn
dixie, Benjamin Greene.
Daniel c. Maxfleid, John B. Baylies,
John J. Frye, Deborah P. Atherton,
Annie NJ. Ray, VIM P. Tuttle, Hannah
J. Bailey, Lydia A Cartland Levi
Jones, Emeline H. Tuttle, Salome G..
Wheeler, John S. Kimben, Melissa S.
Dearborn, j. Hacker Hall, Oiney +.
Meader.
For three years-Samuel r. Buffinton,
Lucy S. Herbert Susan F. Hoxie, Ezra
Hawkes., Isaac Steere, Henry H. Goddard,
Timothy B. Hussey, I. Warren Hawkes.,
Silas H. Garland, Sarah J. Swift, Joseph
E. Briggs, Anna G. Wood, Joseph d.
Wood, Elizabeth K. Jones, Philip A.
| Cornell, George L. Crosman.
The Bible school committee was ap-
One year-George G. Herbert, Mariana
fGifford and George L. Crossman.
| The committee on Freedmen:
One year-Joseph e. Briggs, Susan F.
Hoxie.
Two years-George A. Barton, Anna
| M. Hussey.
Three years-Robert P Clifford, Hannah
J. Bailey.
The main part of the session was taken
up with a discussion as to changes of
discipline of the society.
EVENING TEMPERANCE MEETING.
In the evening temperance meeting
was held and was largely attended
Joseph H. Atwater of Providence, pre-
sided
Lucy Snow of Windham, spoke fervent-
ly in favor of prohibition.
Then General
NEAL DOW WAS RECEIVED
with loud applause. He said that the
enemies of prohibition and those who
have no affection for the law, have been
busy circulating statements that the law
is a failure. Even clergymen and bishops
and some people better than they
(laughter) have circulated these stories.
But they are lies, no matter who circu-
lat es them.
| General Dow went on to show what
prohibition brad done for Maine. In the
old days we had distilleries and breweries.
Now there are none. There used to be
grog shops all over Maine. Now in three
fourths of our territory the grog shop is
unknown. Before prohibition, Maine
was unquestionably the poorest state in
the Union. The forests and fish were
sent to the West Indies in exchange fol-
molasses, the molasses was changed into
rum, and the rum went down the Threats
of the people. Now Maine is the richest
4 state in the Union. Mr. Blaine said SO
in the Garfield campaign. We save $24,
900, 600 year out of prohibition. In nc
state do municipal bonds sell SO well as
in Maine. Our people have money Be.
fore prohibition no one in Maine had al
extra do liar. (Laughter.)
1t was true that some rum was sold in
the cities. But this was largely due tc
defects in the law, which should be
remedied.
| The Democrats in the last campaign
made the repeal of the prohibitory law
as party issue. And when the votes were
counted, out of thirty one members OF
the Senate they didn't have a single one,
and out of one hundred and fifty-one
members of the House they had five.
daughter.
Now 1 want to tell you something, but
shall not tell you to whom I refer.
There is
A BISHOP HERE IN PORTLAND,
and he does not like the Maine Law very
well. do not know why. I have not
asked him. Well, he wrote a letter to
| Boston saying that the prohibitory law
was unpopular, and that reaction was
coming. 1t is too bad that he didn't
hold that letter for few days. 1t would
have kept him out of very dark hole
| daughter
There isn't a hundredth part as much
liquor sold in Portland as there was be-
fore prohibition. I would say a
thousandth part as much, but I am
afraid you would not believe it.
| After General Dow had concluded a
| collection was taken up, to be used for
the suppression of the liquor traffic.
BARCLAY JONES,
of Kansas, said the time had come when
the preachers should be more urgent on
this question. AS for Kasnsas if the East
would keep it's money at home Kansas
would preserve prohibition But New
York and Boston and other cities were
flooding the money in to defeat prohibit
ton Mr.. Jones told how he took bow
eleven years old from prohibition Iowa
to New York, and there the boy saw a
drunken man for the first time. Mr.
Jones then attacked the cigarette and
cigar habits. He came into the house
with his head light from the tobacco
smoke which he had blown into his face
Oh the street 1t was time to rise up
against this great evil. (Cries of Amen.
Tobacco was the open door to the saloon.
A friend of his who visited a Southern
cigarette factory found the cigarettes
made out of cigar stubs and old tobacco