Milford chronicle., 1907-10-04
Maine ROTTEN WITH VICE
Every Form of Evil Thrives.
A Catholic Priest and Protestant Clergyman on
the Question.

A very insistent body of citizens i,
demanding that prohibition shall b,
adopted in Delaware as a means t.
moral reform and improved bushes:
conditions, but so far they have pre-
sented little but empty sentiment il
behalf of their contention.
Why don't they present the re.
suits of prohibition in the state where
1t has been longest on trial?
Because there is not one particle
of evidence in its favor.
Maine to-day is rotten with the
lowest forms of vice.
In no other state is the family re-
lation regarded with so little respect.
There we're S26 Divorces in
1906: one to every z marriages.
In an address of divorce before
the Cumberland Baptist Association
at Buxton, Maine, as reported in the
Portland, Me-, Express of Septem-
Der Is, 1907, the Rev. H. F. Huse
said There is no other State so
great an offender as Maine"
Among the causes he enumerated,
''The alarming increase of the use
of drugs, whose effect is to paralyze
the will and deaden the moral SEN
sibilities. "
Sexual immortality is always the
chief cause of divorce where lust
has free rein marriage is an easy
bond.
With no metropolitan district,
with no large city with its conges-
ton creating vice-haunted slums,
Maine is slimed over with sensual
ism.
Will the prohibition mOraliStS
explain the divorce statistics Of
Maine?
Father DUPONT, of St. Joseph's |
Church, Biddeford, Me-, says that
the present system is a menace to
women read his words spoken one
week ago yesterday in his church,
and repeated in the Biddeford Rec
ord
Father Dupont has made per-
sonal thorough study of the condi-
tons existing in Biddeford, and in
his sermon, which is declared to
have been one of the strongest and
most pointed he has ever given on
the rum question, he named streets
upon which he declared he knew IL
quor and beer are to be openly
bought. He declared the evil in.
fluenees that the tenement dives, !
have on the women and children !
occupying them and who are COM /
PEELED to sell liquors by their
husbands and fathers.
"TIe also explained the need of a e
high license law in Maine, this, he
declared, being the only system I'M c
der which the tenement dives and
low Joints can be driven out and the a
women and children saved from the de- |
baSing and running influences they are \
subjected to under prohibition and the
farcical enforcement of the liquor law. :
He strongly urged the voters in I
his parish to come out openly and "
advocate license and cast their votes G.
for the party by which Maine can be
assured of a license law" q
These witnesses are not hired by -
he day to condone moral degrade !!
ion in order to save the fetch of D
r
In a recent article published I'M
Ter the sanction of the prohibition -
SITS, it was stated that there were IL
,nly three murders in Maine last
rear. We do not know to the con-
rary as we have not the data for
hat period, but in the last six M
weeks the Maine paper received at To
his Office records z murders, 8 of
hem by boys. One of the boys has
lready been sent to prison for life. tn
Will the prohibition advocate ex- tn
lain this murder mania to the citi- -.
ems Of Delaware nj
The Anti-License theory is that mi
is the cause of crime,
nd prohibition will cause crime to OIL
ease by preventing drunkenness. ca
Well, these boy murderers were W
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