Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-03-19

| that he spoke except for himself alone,
and whatever might be my belief | would
| not utter an inSinuation unsupported by
evidence. InSinuation is not argument,
and he who uses it confesses the weakness
| of his cause and the baseness of his heart.
| He would build me a monument of
| brass, and it might not be Inappropriate.
might suggest that monument of don
| key skulls mingled with the skulls of
hyenaS all bound together with the skins
of snakes would fittingly commemorate
his senSelesS braying. his relish for car
rion and his venom fanging habit. But in
so doing | would only sink myself to his
own level and confess the weakness Of
my case.
He continues his insane zeal of insulting
the W. 2; L. y, even wives of the MEM
bers Of the House whose vote he seeks.
lie calls them AmazonS. devoteS 300
W9raS to anP Jeerndg a. tie ma
ter forgetfulness Of the marvellous work
wrought in reforming drunkardS by the
w. G.. Z. u. in the early EOS ard since.
declares that if there was single report
recording the rescue OF one drunkard or
the relieving of distress in one drunkard'S
family, or any practical, womanly. Chlis-
tan, temperance work, it had escaped the
pencils of the reporters
And after sneering at and holding up to
ridicule the pureSt trueSt women of Amer
lea. he showed the type of woman he
adoreS and in himself exhibited the con-
snmmate flower of chivalry and manhood
by champioEing the cause of two bar
maids, 50 lost to all sense of womanliness
that they hide bottles of liquor in their
stocking legs and from this hiding place
draw 1t forth to serve thirsty men.
Then in his erratic flight he castigates
the supreme court for its endorsement of
lawlessness at that famous banquet and
over against it denopnces the taking of
case of beer from a dusty coal HEAVIER in
Portland by deputy sheriff, and that af
ter every heightened place in the city had
been closed
This man from Portland who proclaim
ed his high purpose in his opening words
then deliberately sought to convey false
impressions by Juggling with figures, in
tempted to belittle the W c. T. T., spoke
sneelingly of faithful honest officers of
the law, and denounced them for doing
their duty; without evidence imputes self
iSh, base motives to a man whose argu
ment he did not attempt to answer. This
man in his hunt for hypocrites needs only
to look in a glass and seen in himself the
consummate flower of license.
In the fine description of that wonderful
battle among. the clouds at Missionary
Ridge with which he closes this effort he
compares the boys in blue. fighting
against the foes of the union for the free
dom of the slave and the perpetuation of
the union and the defence of home, to his
own fight to open every home in Maine to
the destruction of the constituencies sa-
loon, the inspirer and inciter to all crime
and the producer of misery and degrade
ton.
Well might the>boys in blue who Shed
their blood and gave their lives in that
glorious battle for freedom and home and
native land. rise from their graves and re-
buke the man who would throw all homes
wide open to the desolate advance of a foe
infinitely more terrible than the boys in
gray or a hooting crowd of painted In
dams, and compare such an act to the go-
rious battle for liberty on Missionary
Ridge.
Back in the face of the gentleman from
Portland l hurl his own words. We. the
moral force, will win this battle against
his humbus. hypocrisy, and false ,pretence.
Throughout his speaking, Mr.. Berry re-
ceived the closest attention.
The meeting closed with all singing
america.