Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1906-05-26

! that not a drop of alcoholic Uollor in
any form should be sold in San Fran
| cisco giving therefor reasons identical
4 with those which the temperance re-
| former has been presenting for MANY
a year.
| The claim is made that prohibitory
| laws have a tendency TO make neople
| hypocritical. The burglar, the forger.
| the bank rObber are not very open and
| free in their manners and methods.
| Sometimes one would think that the
only law ever violated or nullified is
the prohihitory liquor law. | have Wis
tied every state in the nation and
studied the various liquor laws as they
exist and l know that there is more
| notification Of law in license states
than in the State of Maine.
The claim is made that the prohibi-
tory law infringes upon personal lib
erty-So do all laws; and this is espe-
cialiy true of the laws which are enact
I'd to protect the spread of contagious
diseases. l have in mind the law re-
garding smallpox and tuberculosis.
Even the cows have to be tested, al
though some of the farmers think it a
strange interference. | would rather my
Toy would die of smallpox or tubercu-
losis than to die of deirium tremens as
thousands and thousands do in this
country every year. and the page of
history is sadly blotted with the names
Of many of those of greatest promise
and brightest intellect who have died
victims of strong drink.
The Woman's Christian Temperance
Union &c la
posed to licensing the liquor traffic. Lii
cense is wrong in principle and inef-
fective as a temperance measure. No
matter how high the license is the IL
censed saloons will flourish. The IL
quor monopoly. which is the greatest
monopoly in the world, will see to it
that the license is paid however high
it may be. In the high license city of
Minneapolis where there are asa sa-
looms, all but AZ of these are owned by
the brewers and distillerS. The liquor
trade of the country is the great oppo-
nent of the prohibitory law. We read
their journals; we know the proceed
ings in their conventions; we know that
they resolve and carry out the resolve
to raise money to be used in the effort
to overthrow prohibition wherever it
exists. and to prevent it's adoption
wherever effort is being made for such
4 law.
The w. c. r. u. will continue to
stand against resubmission, for prohi-
bton, for its enforcement, for those
men who represent these IDEAS and
principles. If woman's sphere were
confined to four square walls we Should
ont take SO deep and active an interest,
but woman's sphere extends through
out the domain out into which the chill
dren of the home have to go.
Mrs. Stevens spoke in an optimistic
ven She gave many apt and telling il
Illustrations to prove her points as she
presented them and in closing she said
that just so long as there existed any
where the legal sale of that which
causes sons and daughters to forget
their mothers and to forget the Rock
of Ages the w. c. r. u. will not die ont
but will go on and on, increasing in
members and power until the great and
final victory.
II should be said that in the silver
medal contest, won by Miss Hunting
ton of Hallowell, Arthur w. Fitzgerald.
who read THE Fence or the hmbu-
lance" in a most praisewnithv ni:tA-
ner was given honorable mention V,y
the judges.
The convention will close at noon
Saturday.