Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1902-09-17
MAINE w. c. T. U.
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RibbonerS. This address was very me
and was greatly enjoyed by every one
present. She said in part:
Il have carefully studied the tenn
I perance laws of every state and have
/ learned that the restrictive features of
high license law are violated quite as
( much as is the prohibitory law of
| Maine During the last five years /
| have given special attention to investi-
eating the dispensary system, not
theoretically alone. but in a practical
way. having visited many of the towns
in South Carolina and in Georgia
where they have dispensaries.
II have spent several weeks in South
| Carolina last winter. / talked with
| ministers. philanthropists and politi-
| clans. | did not find one minister who
spoke in favor of the dispensary and
the philanthropists We're like minded
with them, having seen the disappoint-
ing results of the law that they honest
" hoped would tend to lessen poverty
and crime. Many politicians We're not
in favor.
The effect of the dipensary upon
young people is deplorable. The
mother of a boy in his teens was warn
ing him against the temptations of
drink when he said to her: If it is such
bad thing why is it that our State
and city allow it to be sold by law? If
it is not safe drink | should think
they would stop it instead of setting up
| these great dispensaries to sell it
Moreover the statistical reports
show that the consumption of liquor
has under the dispensary system of
South Carolina rapidly increased and
the blind tigers the name given in the
South to those places were liquor IS
sold contrary to law. are more numer-
| Gus than are the places in Maine where
liquor is sold in opposition to the pro-
hibtory law. / consider 1t one of the
most fallacious and dangerous forms
of license"
Mrs. Stevens spoke upon the two
great principles of the Women's Chris
tan Temperance Union, Total Alb
stenance," and Prohibition" declaring
| that never before was so wide a recog
milton given to the cause of temperance
as at the present time. That it some
times seems as if there is just as much
or more drinking than ever. is only in
seeming, because in the old days nearly
| everybody drank and no attention
/ whatever was attracted to such
/ habit.
Mrs. Stevens spoke of the untruth
| and unreasonableness of the claim that
| license improves business, that prohi-
bition hurts it. In refutation of the
charge that is so often made that no.
! tells cannot be run unless they sell
/ LIQUOR she said Under the strict en-
| forcement of Sheriff Pearson so noblN
| continued by Sheriff Dunn the hotels
| of Portland had been taxed to their ut
most, in many cases they had not room
| for applicants and no one will under
| take to deny that the hotel business
has good if not better in Portland dur
| ing the last two years than it has ever
| been before What is true of one place
under enforced prohibition would be
! equally true of all others"
The Wednesday session will open at
| 9 o'clock and the forenoon will be de-
voted largely to business, including the
reports of committees and officers of
the State Union. The following is the
program for the day and evening:
The following is the complete pro-
gram for today:
WEDNESDAY MORNING.
9.oo-Devotional meeting. Miss Eliza
beth T. Gordon.
9.45-Convention called to order: re-
port of afternoon and executive COM
mittee meetings; report of credentials
committee; annual report of State cor
responding secretary, Miss Cornelia NJ.
Dow: report of State treasurer, Mrs. A.
s. Johnson: report of Star in the
East" Miss Cornelia NJ. Dow and Mrs
Gertrude Stevens Leavitt; report of
auditor. Miss A. F. CHM; the Union
Signal" Mrs. Anna A. Gordon; intro
auctions. greetings. the Togus Union,
Mrs. Lizzie Hunt Towle; reports of SUI
perintendents: Work Among the
Lighthouse Keepers Mrs. F.stelle
Stanley, Duck Island light station, Nc
Kinley. Me: Sabbath Observance"
Miss Frances S. Moody. Bath; Purity
in Literature and Art" Mrs. Inez L.
Small. South Deer Isle; Mercy Miss
Mary Crosby, Bangor; school Savings
Banks.
12.o0-Noontide prayer. Mrs. L. w
Weston: miscellaneous BUSINESS; an
| nouncements: adjournment.
WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON.
2.OO-Singing; prayer, Mrs. Mary +.
Hanson. Reports of superintendent
L. 7. l.. Work." Mrs. Myrtle G.. K.
Ames. general secretary. Fort Fair
field; 'Hysienic Reform and Heredity
and Physical Culture" Mrs. Myra NJ.
Patrick. Harrison: Non Alcoholic
Medication" Mrs. A. l.. Vining St AL
bans Report of State Organizer Miss
Alice Moore; introductions and greet
ings.
2.00--Young women's hour: Miss Lu-
belle Patrick. Y. w. G. r. L. secretary:
Mrs. Effie Littlefieid Murray, Mrs. Ger
trude Stevens Leavitt, Miss Alice
Moore, Miss Winifred Vose, Miss Alice
Burbank. Mrs. Lydia Gilmore and
others. Reports of superintendent
Legislation and Petitions" Mrs. l.. J.
Spaulding. Caribou: Franchise" Mrs
Augusta NJ Hunt. Portland, Miss Abb
bic c. Peaslee. Auburn, associate:
Peace and Arbitration, Miss Alice NJ
Douglass. Bath: Work Among For
eign-Speaking People Mrs. Byron
Stevens. Brunswick; Flower Mission"
Miss Belle Downs, Houlton: state and
County Fairs" Mrs. Edith n. Cakes,
Foxcroft.
5.0o-Miscellaneous business; adj
iOllrulnent.