Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1905-08-15
Here and There.

terrlnS tO Tue uioIC VI iOoS
erroneous notions regarding Name,
Zone great reason for the opinion held
concerning Maine and her people, is our
eternal chatter about rum, liquor laws,
and drunkenness. Well, most of this
"eternal chatter" is made by the Argus
and its contributors and other papers of
like sympathies, who are opposed both
TO the present liquor laws and TO their
enforcement, and who are continually
representing that there is more drunken
ness and general eussedness in Maine
than in any license state. 1t is time to
quit disappearing Maine thus.
ANY one who knew nothing about the
matter from observation, and who read
no papers but the license advocates in
Maine, would be likely to conclude that
the principal topic of conversation of the
people, from day to day, was prohibition
and the Sturgis Commission, and that
majority of the people were just on the
verge of bloody revolution on account
of the prohibitory law. Such is certain
ly not the case in the rural portions OF
the state, and if any such condition ex-
from any other sources than those
named. There is to be sure a certain
amount of clamor for the repeal OF the
prOhibitory law, but in our opinion II
comes from comparatively small mum
Der of threats.
In consequence of trouble caused by
the matter in the past, the executive
committee of the State Grange has ruled
that hereafter there must be no dancing
in connection with grange meetings
which are opened in form.
Various comments are made on the
fact that McKeesport, Pa, has lost its
Carnegie library by failing to live up tc
its part of the work in making appropri'
atoms. Whatever view we may take oi
this action in allowing the library to bt
closed, it will be surprising if some OF
the other municipalities which have
bound themselves to make an annual ex
penditure in some cases disproportionatt
to their size, do not feel the burden in
time and follow the example of Nc
KeespOrt.
Portsmouth, n. H., is getting lot oil
advertising from the fact that the peace
conference is held there. The way the
peace conference is held in Portsmouth
is that the ENJOYS meet for business il
the town of Kittery, Maine, and spend
their nights at hotel in Newcastle, n
III.
A Chicago hotel has undertaken to
correct the tipping evil by raising the
pay of its porters and requiring them tC
turn over to the house all tips received
putting on spoilers TO see that the
porters do so. Leaving out of account
the fact that the change of arrange
ment does nothing toward remedying
the tip evil, it is so absurd from bust
ness point of view as to be ridiculous.
As Mark Twain once remarked about a
man, those hotel proprietors must dc
their thinking with some kind of al
intellectual wart.
The last report from the Roosevelt was
that she was sighted making her way
north among the icebergs. Think OF IT.
and shiver with delight at the thought
The sentencing of an illegal rumsellel
in Vermont to fines aggregating 1880
or in default of payment 81 years in Jail,
is noted with implied approval by license
advocates. But think what protest il
would have reused if such batch of
sentences had been imposed under q
prohibitory law!
Although the department of state
deals with international matters, Secre
tary of State Root has resigned as
director of all the important corpora
tons with which he is connected. This
leaves him free to act without any
charge or suspicion of undue influence
either on the one hand or the other
Such action is on a high plane of ethics
No adverse criticism of it can be made
and only one form of uncomplimentary
comment on it is possible-which his
enemies will probably not be slow tc
discover.
Sensible, II They Use Good Sense