The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1900-05-24

stances were such during the year that I
did not start to raise money. l am
ready to be one Of the three hundred.
We all want to be in the Four Hundred.
Why not BE- in the three hundredS'
Rev. A. L. Dunn, ID. D., stated that he
knew something OF Mr.. Berry's work.
The league needed a m ore carefully pre-
pared and stated financial scheme. There
has been little effort made TO secure
money from those who guaranteed 1t the
first Of the year. 1t is q wonder that so
much has been done with such q small
amount Of funds on hand DIR. Dunn
started that he had not heard one word of
criticism Of any statement made by Mr..
Berry during the year.
Hon. Hiram Knowlton was called upon
and spoke briefly. Nothing gives a
man 20 much courage" he said, las
money. Some method should be adopted
in raising money and I don't know of
any place where money could be better
spent than In this purpose. With proper
effort we can and will secure money
enough"
Rev. G. f. Dunn of Houlton spoke in
terestingly of the work that the league
had done In Aroostook county. He had
made the proposition that his county
should raise 500 for the league and he
said that he would be willing to be one
of the three hundred.
Relative to the enforcement Of the
law he said, we've been prosecuting
the work under, at times, poor set of
officials. We controlled the c aucuses and
nominated and elected the county at
torney. The county attorney asked that
in liquor cases Jail sentences should be
imposed. The chief justice asked the
county attorney II he meant to ask for
Jail sentences in every case. The county
attorney said that he did and the chief
justice thought that was rather funny.
We propose to pile up just as many cases
as possible"
Prof. II. NJ. Purinton of Bates college
said that he thought it would be a good
thing to know how much and what kind
of liquor was sold in Maine in the course
of year He said that Lewiston has
Is, 800 foreigners and 1900 native born
citizens Among the foreigners there is u
great demand for liquor and owing to
the proportion of foreign voters the ma
tive born citizens are not in power. 1t
won't do in Lewiston to close all the
saloons or to begin an aggressive campaign
against the rum shops unless the temper
ance people are very brave and are pre-
pared to take the consequences. Not but
what many of them are ready to shoulder
IA musket in the cause If necessary but
some of these are not prepared To ally
themselves with the fanatics or that ele-
ment of the Good Templars which Is ia
natical
The speaker was very much afraid that
Mr. Berry's plan for aggressive work
would not be good thing to carry out.
Mr.. Berry said that there was growing
sentiment in Maine for aggressive work.
Mr.. Purinton went on to say that Mr..
Berry's suggestion for active county work
was an extremely good idea. He said
that Androscoggin county needs a leader
of leaders. If Mr.. Berry would go to Lew
iston and live with the people there for a
month he would find 100 men who would
be ready and willing to follow him any
where Prof. Purinton said: 1--WE ara
going. to elect the same man for sheriff
in Androscoggin this year that we
have chosen before and we propose to have
all the liquor during the next year that
we want He said that with act i've work
1t might be that the election Of this sher-
iff could be made uncertain.
Rev. Luther Freeman said that he came
to be instructed not to instruct. He went
on to say among other things that 1--WE
church people don't amount to much in
politics. We might just as well be out
of it," He said that when he had
talked with the mayor about certain
things he had been asked: What do
you people want? One of - your church
members comes to me and asks for one
thing and another comes and asks for
another thing. If you will make up
your mind what you want you may be
able to get it," Mr.. Freeman said that
this was where the church people were
lame. They were not united while the
liquor dealers and the people who were
not in favor of the enforcement Of the law
were united. What we need is n COM
mon platform ON which all of us can
stand.
Rev. Mr. Wilson of the Free street Bap-
fist church of Portland said that he was
some troubled about the financial aspect
of the Christian Civic league work. He
didn't believe it was n good plan to put
the support of this work upon three
hundred men and women and leave out
all of the others. He said that there were
scores of people who were interested in
the work this league is doing and who
are anxious to contribute their mite to-
wards carrying 1t on. He thought that
it would sap the moral support of the
league if 1t was made a class work.
Mr.. Berry explained that the work of
the secretary was becoming too much for
him to handle alone. He needed an as
sistant who could do much of the detail
work and who would relieve him of it 80
that he could attend to the more import
ant matters.