Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-03-19
FOR TEMPERANCE,
Continued from page g.

the growing drunkenness in Name dur
ing the past so years the fruit of a law
put on the statutes but never admins
tered.
A deputy marshal in Portland three
years ago accounted for the 100 arrests
for drunkenness in that city on the GROUND
that 800 hopeless drunkards pouring in anC
out of Cumberland county jail largely con.
Stituted the 100 committed to Jail fol
drunkenness. These were the product OF
Portland'S license, and enforcement in.
herited these conditions and cannot dem
| onstrate it's effectiveness until they cease
to be.
N his zeal for the labor beer-drnker he
drew picture of persplrlng, grimy, Goa
heavers, thirsty for beer refusing the
cooling draft of Portland's splendid water
and patroniZing gutter snipes," vendors
of prohibition whiskey;" then follows
him crazy drunk to the station and the
court with its fine or Jail.
But in license Boston where beer was
abundant, a man of similar occupation
llEed in two-roomed, barren, dirty, des-
olate basement rent; Dire poverty and
wife and five children, the eldest 10. Re
peatedy when intoxicated this man had
cruelty beaten his wife and children. One
Saturday night, melted by license whis-
key, he beat and choked his wife, and ly-
ing down to sleep, left her the dirty
floor of the kitchen to die. The 13-year-
old boy heard his mother moan IN the
early morning, gave her some water,
reused his drink-stupefied father and to-
gether they lifted the wife and mother to
the old lounge, where she died.
He let you look at perSpiring men
thirsting for beer but forced under pro
hibition to drink whiskey I have showed
YOU IN q license state, murdered mother
surrounded by 1ive children in training in
such a home for citizenship in a proud
commonwealth where under the sanction
of law this perspiring husband and ia
Their refused the abundant beer and from
choice drank the license whiskey. Now
which states attitude do most D6
mire?
This gentleman from Portland. who up
to this point has brought only indiet-
ments against license in the name of IL
plea for resubmiSSiOn, now in his insane
zeal for his clients devotes over 5000 words
ana unmeaSured energy to an attempt to
lot
In his mad zeal to kill the grasshopper
he gwen, unwittingly, presume smirches
House and OF the Republican party He
declares that / denounced the members
of this House and the Republican party"
Then to prove this charge he correctly
quotes an utterance of mine, as follows:
Il tell you politicians who listen at the
keyhCleS of saloons to ascertain public
sentiment, that the moral forces of this
State have been fooled as long as they
propose to be- l specifically denounced
politicians who listen at the keyholes of
saloons" and this gentleman says l de,
nounced the members of this House and
them all to be politicians who listen at the
keyholes of saloons. Certainly he did not
mean to do this in his eager efforts for
votes for resubmission. He knew such a
charge against the House and party as 6,
whole was false. But it indicates his
clearness of vision and correctness of
statement.
Then he, a renegade Democrat I am
told. calls me one of the most pronounced
and loud-mouthed politicians in Maine
and threatens me with the foot of the Re
lNttf n1n
gentleman from Portland scrambled onto
the back of the Republican elephant in
his greed for office | was firmly seated
there and never have left my perch l
have not always voted for men whose
names were on the Republican ticket bur
have always cherished and sought to ad .
vance Republican principles, chief among
which in my own State, however it may
have been treated by the party machine.
is prohibition On this Issue the Repubii-
can party first came into power in Maine,
and to this principle has she always since
declared her allegiance.
Next in this marvellous argument for re-
submission he devotes $500 words to show
how Wilbur F. Berry,,ss practice squares
Berry hypocrite what an awful comment
on prohibition!
He calls attention to the election of Hor.
Frank Jones as a trustee of the school
at kent's Hill Then this man, who pro
laimed that be would make no statement
unsupported by substantial evidence,
quoted from a newspaper, without MAX
ing the slightest effort to ascertain its
correctness a reported utterance of NINE
insnuates that l made it to secure my
election to the presidency Of the sclpol,
and later had myself elected.
| asked Mr. SWEET in the presence of a
witness if he made any effort to ascertain
the correctness of the newspaper item and
he said No
1 asked: did you see me sitting by
your desk the day the debate on resub
mission commenced?" He said yes. "
Why" 1 asked, did you not ask me if
did not want to-" he said.
What evidence" 1 asked. had you
that in the utterance attributed to me 1
t6 seeking ny ELECTION to the
events" he replied. 'Dr. Gallagher re
signed and you We're elected" but"
replied, DIR. Gallagher did not resign for
President Trefethen, and after six years
| was elected.
'.on what evidence did you say I had
minated that such was the case" he
said
who was the gentleman" I asked
II do not care to say" was the reply
Then all the evidence you had to make
the charges was the newspaper scrap
Yes, and thought those enough,
Now for the facts. The item in the pa
ton and it was not printed, To one. Of
the trustees / opposed the election be-
fore it occurred. In the conference session
stated that 1 had opposed Mr.. Jones
election. then said: This body has no
vital relations to the school. Its trustees
are an incorporated body. self-perpetIit-
ing They are mostly members OF our
church and have acted in the light of all
the facts from the standpoint of their
own conscience and Judgment. We na, 8
no responsibility in the matter and had
better not assume any.
At the next session of conference I took
sininar position, and declared that to
pass the resolution would give us the APP
pearance of a prosecuting spirit. Finally
the $4,000 bequest from Mr.. Jones has not
yet been paid into the treasury of the
school.
The gentleman from Portland out of the
abundance of his heart insinuates that r
spoke in that conference only from the
| standpoint of selfish greed. / might also
| insnuate that he chaInpioned the cause
| of resubmission because he has been or is
| his effective services. The bitterness of
his personal attack is like that of the sa-
| loon. -
/ PIT tox,o not the c1ighfact nvtt5ey 10