Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-01-12

take the, consequences of law. That is all
| have to say on this matter, but I ex-
pect each che of you to give me full CO.
operation in enforcing the law while it re-
mains upon the statutes.
Those are clear-headed, honest, brave
words, yet many have said to me: 1T is
all a bluff. You will see the saloons of
Kennebec county wide open after the peo-
pie get over the excitement of the pres
ent move in Augusta" Again answer,
l believe in Mr.. Ham; that he is a man of
honor and q gentleman, and. that he
means to keep his oath of office. This
crying down public officials ought to end
Let us unite to support Mr. Ham and
other good officials.
OUR PRESENT NEED
The doctrine of President Roosevelt
and the prose Of Kipling are good tonic
in this age. They represent a reaction
from mock SentimentaliSm and Weakness
What reform needs today is the forceful
man, the man who has got some stuff
in him, one who will not rest content
with present conditions but will go out
and secure peace if he has to fight for it.
the people engaged in violating and
multiplying law do not care about your
criticisms or your lectures on temperance
and good government. 1t is might they
need, the fearless honest man who has
fight in his soul. Our supreme need is
men who will work and vote and fight the
dishonest man or political party. Our
prayer Thy will be done must mean
something real, vital. 1t must mean JUS.
tice in banks, in laws, in life. How is
the Kingdom of God to come? BY our
doing the will of God in everything, all
the time and everywhere In politics. in
government, in office and in commerce.
Our need is the strong will, the firm
conviction, the enlightened intelligence
that will give of time and thought and
influence to cure poverty, teach ignor-
ance TO wash away municipal filth and
to purify official corruption.
God give US men, A time like this de-
mandS
Strong minds, great hearts, trIe faith and
ready hands:
Men, whom the lust of office does not kill;
Men, whom the spoils of office cannot
buy;
Men, who possess opinions and a will;
Men, who have honor, and who will not
lie;
Men, who can stand before dema gogue,
And damn his treacherous batteries with
out Winking;
Tall men, sun-crowned, who live above
= the fog .---.-ZS 49,
In public duty and in private thinking;
Fer while the rabble, with their thumb
worn creeds,
Their large professions and their latent
deeds,
Mingle in selfish pride, To- Freedom weeps.
Wrong rules the land, and waiting justice
sleeps.
''The church of today, much more the
church OF The future. must take to it's
heart the duty of combining and massing
its forces against that gigantic atrocity
that diabohcal conspiracy, that nameleSs
monstrum Lorrendum of Christian civil
llZation, that mothers nine-tenthS of the
wees and sorrows which blight and curse
our modern age-the traffic in intoXicants,
which hides its deformity under forms of
law. How long shall the face of our
Christian era blister with this worse than
pa gan shame? Has the virtue of our time
degenerated so low that we do not even
blush at the legislated traffic in the souls
of. our own children? That by the very
doors of our own homes and our temples
an army of miscreantS should, by author
iZation of laws, made by Christian law
giVerS prosecute q work of murder and
death? Are we reduced to the, shame of
admitting that civilization which has
cure the evil2 How can we go to the |
heather with this cancer of worse than
heather infamy fostering in our BOSOM"
When ancient Rome had virtue, she was
noble and invincible: when she lost that, |
her wealth, her provinces. her armies |
State the incarnation of moral ideals and |
principles
The well being of people in the last |
analysis lies not in the form of it's gov
chinery, but in the education, the integ- !
rity, the character of its people. There |
fore we have a dream of salvation by |
machinery, by organization, by govern |
ment, Independent of this individual |
it may be dismissed as fallacy. |
desired, the thing to aim at, the thing |
this republic and this State, this city ano |
all their institutions exists for is that a |
man may set up and preserve a home |
where his wife and child man be safe |
that man may enter into business and |
feel security for his own life and pros
perity. that he may have leisure for study |
reflection and worship.