The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1906-06-07

and the groans and the growls, voice
rang out. 1t was the voice of strong
man in authority: Gas citizen l.
never have stood, and as a citizen @, OF
executive, never will stand for nun.
flcatlon OF law. I had supposed tna'
my election, if it meant anything,
meant protest against nulllllcaUlon'
and it was for this reason that con-
tdently expected legislation to remedy
1t. L believed that the Repuollca,n
party would keep faith with the peopIe
because it was right to do so. why
not be fair and honest and give ell
forced prohibition chance to sho"
what 1t will do for Maine. L am op-
posed to local option and license, put
better that than notification. pe-
lieve that enforced prohibition, 5he
kind that many counties ENJOY touay
and many more might enjoy unoei tne
control of local officials were IL not LOT
political corruption, is the best ana
most satisfactory method to regulate
the liquor problem in Maine. 50
spoke Governor Cobb to the members
of the Deering Club and the cltlZens
OF the State. Never more manly anu
courageous address; and II the hepuo,
llcan party doubles in Its TRACKS anu
deserts the brave and CONSISTENT man
whose views it endorsed WIN sucn
gusto and whom it elected TO the chle1
magstracy of the State by tne hah9-
some majority of tWenty-slx thonsaIa,
that party is doomed to deIeat ana IS
WORTHY. not only of defeat, but also OF
eternal contempt,
1t is we'll for 4 to pause to enquire
who are making this cry, BACK 70
| Egypt Is this the clamor OF tle hiSn-
er institutions of learning ana thelf
teachers. of the churches and their
ministers. of the various reform socl-
cites and their leaders, OF the sober,
God fearing citizens as class? No; tar
from it 1t comes from the man behind
the bar and the great association be-
hind the man behind the bar. The rum
seller and his crowd to a man want to
get free from prohibition. 1t comes
from the thirsty multitude, high and
low, but mostly low, VINO want, conVen-
iently at hand, the means OF satisfying
their beastly appetite. Let the notorl-
Gus Bangor reSubmiSslon convention
be taken as conclusive evidence of the
absolute truthfulness of the foregoing
assertions, a gathering recruited from
the illegal groggeries OF the State ana
COMPOSED of notorious violatOrs OF the
laws" who. as one of their own speak
ers said, could not blame the courts for
giving you jail sentences. AFTER
such an exhibition OF what was sought,
and who hoped to profit through result
mission" says Col. Fred n. Dow, self
respecting citizens, intelligent enough
. to comprehend the situation, might
we'll refuse further connection with it.
These are the men, together with those
who seem entirely willing to serve their
ends, who constitute, now as hereto
J fore. the main body of the resubmisslon
force. Others may act with them from
better motives; but, however high their
intentions, they are looked upon by the
rum selling and rum-SympathlZlng
crowd that they are aiding as me with
them in sympathy and purpose as they
are in effort Formerly they favored
resubmlssion under the pretext that
"prohibition does not prohibit" now
they want resubmission, they openly
declare, because prohibition does pro-
hibit. Then, they were masqueradlng
as refolmers now they have thrown
their mask one side, boldly bringing
into view the bloated and repulsye Wis
age of the traffic they are asking the
people of Maine to support and be-
hind that is the devil
The battle is on. God only knows the
outcome; but it is Il time for every
friend of law and order and righteous
ness to grid on the armor and assume
the offensive. The temperance people
Of Maine are now compelled to flght,
not alone the rum fraternity in the
Stare but also the organized liquor
Interests" of the nation, which have
marked the State for slaughter" The
Waterville Morning Sentinel may
ridcule the statement recently made
by an officer of the Christian Civic
League that Boston is ready to send
half a million dollars into Maine to
help defeat the prohibitory law; but the
people generally will be as ready to be-
| lieve what that Christian gentleman
saws as to swallow the rant of the
sentinel" Perhaps the scribe of the
''rumocratic organ" had never read the
! following resolution adopted by the
annual convention of the Wholesale
LIQUOR Dealers Association at Pitts
burg, June II, 1902:
"Whereas, The agitation III favor OF
prohibition has increased to such an
alarming extent all over the country
that the very life of our business is
threatened; and
"Whereas. 1t has, therefore, become
| necessary lOI tile tldNc " tahC hiiItSu
action toward defending Its nights, and
"Whereas, 1t is the opinion of a large
number of the members of the Whole
sale Liquor Dealers Association of
| America that that association is the
one through which and by which work
of this kind should be inaugurated and
pushed to a successful finish; now,
! therefore. be ii
'Resolved, That a bureau he estab-
| lished by the National Wholesale
Liquor Dealers Association of Amerl-
Ca. whose sole duty it shall DE to prose
cute this work: and it Shall be called
the Protective Bureau OF the National
Wholesale Liquor Dealers Association
of America
1t may seem strange, but the editor
of the Sentinel had evidently over
looked ID paragraph iii Bontort's Wine
and Spirit Circular i'll which TINS state
ment is made:
''Be it remembered that the Protec
tive Bureau of the National Wholesale
Liquor Dealers Assertion had much
very much to do with the work which
did away with prohibition in Vermont
and New Hampshire.' Nor, as has
been SAID, would the Sentinel dare to
spread before its readers the truth COLI
ctrning the methods resorted to Iii