Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-03-06

| included among the same they must
keep sober in the America of our time
In the early days of railroads most OF
the conductors came from the ranks of
the old stage drivers. They were jovi-
al good fellows who knew every mile
OF the road and everybody that travel
ID it, AT the end of the days run they
were frequently to be found at a good
hotel enjoying a social glass, and
standing treat for any friend or patron
of the road and such was the general
custom throughout the country. To-
day you may travel the entire length of
the aine Central the Boston & Maine
or any other we'll regulated road and
you wont meet conductor engineer
or trainman with the smell of liquor on
his breath. Why? Because of the pro-
hihitory law? No. Because the rail-
roads of today demand the service of
clear-headed, alert, bright men with all
their wits about them, and every rail-
road man knows that drinking liquor
means discharge without notice, and it
is becoming so in every line Of bust
ness. Men are learning that rum and
business don't make an effective part
ncrsnip.
Mr.. Speaker-Prohibition has never
been a principle of the Republican
party. No republican national conven-
ton ever recognized it. Every repub-
lican state in the union has expert
mented with prohibition liquor laws,
everyone except Maine, New Hamp-
shire and Kansas has rejected 1t and
none has ever returned to it, Don't be
afraid of the shadow of the ghost of the
prohibition vote. No prohibitionist
running as such has polled three per
cent of the vote of Maine in fifty years.
What did they accomplish in 1880 when
they ran for President Neal Dow, the
man who for fifty years was the brains
and backbone of the whole movement,
the grand old man" of prohibition.
/ have no other words than those of
respect for Gen. Neal Dow. He was Il
patriot and soldier in the hour of his
country's direst need, who, notwith-
standing the fact that he had far out
lived the age limit for military service.
raised and led a gallant regiment of
Names sons until the weight of years
and wounds and suffering in rebel
prisons forced his retirement. He was
man of strong convictions and of
equal courage. None who knew him
ever questioned the moral or physical
courage of Neal Dow. He was a rare
specimen of well nigh extinct species;
a conscientious, consistent prohibition
list. But he looked upon the teahher-
ance question just as a man mayview
landscape through a blower. He
sees that which his bean SLOWER is
pointed at and nothing else; and when
Neal Dow contemplated the temperance
question. his bean blower comprehend
ed prohibition only.
On the year in which he was a candi-
date the city of Portland east 1902
votes for President. How many votes
for Neal Dow? One. The county of
Cumberland cast 20.035 votes for Presi-
dent that year. How many for Neal
Dow? One. The State of Maine cast
143,903 votes How many for Neal
Dow. Ninety-two. The United
States cast 9,219,947 votes. How many
for Neal Dow? Ten thousand three
hundred and five. He received eleven
one hundredths of one percent of the
votes of the country. The Prohibitions
lists say they have no fear that the peo-
pie of Maine, will repudiate prohibition.
Then why not submit the question to
the people? Are you afraid to trust