Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1905-02-25

" no stood upon Il platform Ni'h
promised that the people should SLY
whether or not this question would re-
main upon the statute books. There are
our petitions, the petitions OF nearly
Ja,c00 voters, not women or chlidfei'
but voters. men interested i'll the pest
welfare. of the commonwealth, men VINO
have no interest in the liquor business,
men who look only for the advance
ment and the best methods OF ulll'-
ing their fellow men. There say are
the petitions of those who laNor -
submission, and YOU must adiilit 'i'''
those are petitions which were u'is"-
licited, that it was an honest eAPit'
sion of the opinion of the men dtp'9i'
ing them. and consequently tlle hioH'
emphatic kind of 4 petition tli.'' N'''
be presented in favor OF legislation l'i
amy cause.
Again | say. Mr.. Speaker and mem
hers of the House. that the one Grc''
ohi..,tin,, that will be advanced here is
thnt There is no necessity Tor thiS
| submission. These people who Oppose
| - ,,e satisfied as to what me tit't
| ,., ,.,,..,,I, Of = vote upon this question
world he. If you are satisfied say 10
!
,on,. bonded duty to hearken !" me
| 1870 If those nearly $4,000 voters
| ,hi,.b was so forcibly expressed nj the
| Sentemher election. say l" every "i''"
Eva who is opposed to re-submission
| than if he conSclentlouSlF itNNfS 'ii9
| cturais bill then he should vote for re-
submission, because II the pfohtnlt"IN
| Inv was Il success there would not ne
any necessity today. for Il SiurgiS Dill
7 saw to those people who are opposed
to the StureiS bill. the members OF tins
body who do not believe in the StufSiS
bill, | say to you that if you do rot De
lieve in ii thcn you are men who be
Eeye in the use of liquor. and colISe-
uuentlv ynl. should give to every one
of yumr fellow men the right 10 say
whether or not he will be allowed To
purchase it as Il citizen az be COM
PEELED to buy it like criminal.
But. Mr. Speaker. | have II" fear OF the
result ii this question is TtSuhin''''" |"
the people am never afraid 70 trt~;
the people | believe that if this question
were resubmittcd to the people they would
settle il and settle il in the manner they
believe TO he right. | have confidence III
q
7 have confidence in them for this reason.
that that virtue, if | may 50 call IL. con-
tidence, is the real corner stone upon
| which this grand Republic OF today mas
been built. Away back in the early cen
| turies a little group migrated from HOE
| land to the stern rock bound coast oi
| Massachusetts. What was the cause OF
their coming? 1t was simply due 10 the
| fact that they had confidence IN them
| selves as raople to legisIate and enact
laws that would be for the peSl interests
and the better developments and the up
lifting and the education of each and eV-
| cry member of the community. we NIGH
| go on ard trace the development OF tht
| American nation from the time of the
| Pilgrim Fathers all down through the
| years to the present time GU will find
my friends that any great change which
has been made in legislation, any Sroai
| Improvement which has been made mas
| been accomplished because the promoters
| of ii We're intelligent and they We're Will
| ing to trust in the confluence or tins
| American people. | Will tell you, MI
| Speaker and gentlemen of the House. thaH
1T was confidence in the American people,
| which forced the o BrienS. if ] may al
| lude to that family, the o. riens of Ma
| chias when they sailed out there from
| our own coast and captured the British
| ship Margucretta. and by so doing served
notice upon the world that ii revolution
| had actually begun. ii was contdenC
| in the American people that encouraged
! the writer OF the great Declaration of liz
| dependence. 1t was confidence i'll tho
| American people that prompted the COM
position of our grand declaration OF rights
| 1t was confdenc" in the American people
and we are all Americans who live here
| in the commonwealth Of Mainc-it was
| confidence IN them, for example. that
| made Warren the leader at Bunker Hill
| which history shows him 70 haze been
| 1t was confidence in the American peop.e
| which induced that great American. Web
| Ster. to stand on the floor of the nationa!
| Congress and utter the thoughts of a mind
| that was like a mighty loom weaving
| tapestries of glory for each and every Cit
| iZen of the American commonwealth. 1t
| was confidence in the American people
| that animated the poetical genius OF our
| own Maine poet when he wrote the lcdu-
| tiful Ship of State" 1t WAS confidence
| in the American people thai encouraged
| Sam Houston at Santa Anna. Andrew
| Jackson at New Orleans; it was conf
| dcnce in the American people that gave
! the present ruler of this nation the spirit
| to so before the people in the last cleo
| ton as the radical member of his party,
| up$euting all the tenetS Of the rational
Republican machinery which had been in
existence for years, and made him will
ing to place his cause before the Aneri-
| can people on such platform, and in
| return receiving the greatest tribute from
| the common people OF this country tina /
was ever given to any candidate FOR office.
So | say, Mir. Speaker and members Of
the House. that all those examples and
| 1 might Gull many more from the pa ge:,
| OF history if time permitted, that all
| those examples of what confidence. in The
people of free American liberal form Of
government such as we have can accom-
| plsh-with that knowledge with those.
facts staring MS in the flCe, | say to th,.
| members of this House, rcSumh;t your
NTH amendment to the voters and allow.
them to say whether or not it shall longer
remain on the statute books. whether or
n"t we shall continue in the future as
We nave in the past % years 10 help create
Il ruin-stoCrsicy here in the good old COM
nDnWpdlth Of Maine