Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-10-15

and hundreds of other good citizens
writes us protesting against the ship
ment into the county of large quaint
| ties of liquor and beer, on the occasion
| of every little town or county fair, as
was done the other day when ten large
| sugar barrels of lager were boldly
| landed at Damariscotta depot. In this
| case, however, it will be remembered.
| the officers We're on hand and in less
than two and half hours the liquors
| were seized and the owner under ar
rest, to be arragned on the following
day and fined 500 and costs. And the
| good work did not end here but the
next morning two saloons in Damaris-
Gotta village We're raided and the pro-
| prieturs promptly arraigned and SEN
fenced. Then the officers went to the
railroad station where they found Il
barrel of lager. labelled ginger ale AMI
another barrel of liquor and the next
day fifteen gallons more of whiskey
were seized at the same station. Such
vigorous work as this well followed up
by more of the same kind, will be likely
to discourage the illegal traffic, and
teach rumsellers to let Lincoln county
alone.
Agnes E. Slack, secretary Worlds w.
c. T. u; secretary British Woman's
I Temperance Association and L. NJ. N
| Stevens. vice president at Large Ma
| tional w. c. T. u; president Maine
w. c. T. u. make a statement to the
Portland Press concerning the report
| of split in the Worlds w. c. T. U. or
| account of different views held by
Lady Somerset and some others, res
pecting methods for suppression of
| vice. In course of this they say: 1T
would be strange if in a great world
| wide society like ours, there did not
| arise some MISUNDERSTANDING and SOME
| jealousies With that side we do not
propose to deal just now, except to say
| that those who are against us are a
| thousand times less than those who
are with us. There is no probability of
a split at the convention of the
| Worlds w. c. T. U. in Toronto The
| annual council of the British Woman's
Temperance Association, notwithstand-
ing Lady Henry's isolated position On
this question, reelected her president
of the association with only seventeen
dissentients, out of five hundred dele
gates who voted. Later on as criti-
cisms on her proposed methods for the
suppression of vice We're made Lady
Henry felt it best to offer her resigna-
ton. The National executive commit
tee of the British Woanan's Temper
ance association numbering one hun
dred members by vote of four to one
expressed their confidence in her, as
the leader and president of the b. W.
T. A. and urged her to remain presi-
dent of the association, whereupon she
withdrew her resignation. Among
those who voted to retain her were
such women as Mrs. Ormiston Chant
and Mrs. Sheldon Amos, who, it may
be remembered, We're among the
original workers for the repeal of the
c. d. Acts. In view of the attitude
taken by the women of Great Britain,
in expressing their confidence in Lady
Henry as an officer, no one has a rea-
sonable right to prophecy that she will
be 'deposed' at the Worlds convention.
1t seems unnecessary to state that Miss
Willard is now, as she ever has been.
unalterably opposed to state regulation
of vice. or licensing the liquor traffic
We have every reason to believe that
the hearts of the women do safely
trust in her as they have these many
years"
1t is to be expected that the police.
man in such law-abiding community
as Hallowell will have odd moments
when he is at leisure to listen with
credulity to the whispers Of fancy"
But what shall we say of the Hallowell
ratrolman whom the Reporter Journal
credits with the statements that in
that town lives man who can "sit
down to the largest sized pot of pork
and beans and eat every smithereen
of beans and pork in the pot with the
necessary brown bread &c. that ac-
companies it," also that this fellow
alone and single handed, had been
known to drink five quarts of Medford