Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1907-03-01
Liquid or tablets. 100 Doses One Dollar.

home to families. some put it in the
bank. Rut there is a contingent which
spends it exclusively for hard liquors
There have been some who spent their
money III the beer hail. but that will
be discontinued on the 4th of March.
"SGme OF them come to Augusta OF
go to Randolph and get their liquor. A;
Randolph they sometimes do not pur.
chase it themselves. but they give a
man dollar, the price of a pint being
10 cents. and the agent keeps the quar-
ter. These are the men with whom we
have to deal
Il come here in behalf OF, Gen. Brown
Who is not himself able to come, but
he was very anxious to do so.
I'VE have a first-class hospital equip
Incnt there at the Home and spirituOus
liquors are furnished the men in case
Of sickness. where it is necessary.
have SO notified the town authorities.
General Richards, at this point, read
Several letters bearing upon the mat.
ter. He showed by the letters that the
agencies in question had been notified
that they should not sell to the voter
ans.
1.-The law ought to be so amended that
this nalpable breach of it's purpose may
be stopped" he concluded.
He was questioned by seve raj mem
bers of the committee and it was
brought out that the agency was ruI1
simply as a business proposition and ir
his opinion it would not be run if il
were not for the National Home.
Rev. c. E. Owen asked Gen. Rich.
ards if the order forbidding the agents
tc sell to the soldiers did not put the
members OF the Home on the blacklist
He did not so understand it: he simply
requested that the agent refrain from
selling, and that it had no law force.
Rev. Mr.. Owen of Waterville. secre-
tary of the Civic League. started tC
speak. but was interrupted by Senator
Hastings. who asked him ii he lived If
the county. He replied that he did.
"Then why, in view of the revelati tons
made here by General Richards, haven't
these agents been locked up before
this?" was Mr.. Hastings next question
Mr.. Owen did rot reply directly, but
stated that when the Chelsea agent
was appointed, he (Mr. Owen), looked
I'D his record at the court house AND
found that he was under bonds not tC
break the provisions of the prohibitory
law.
Mr.. Owen in the course of his re-
marks, said that the selectmen OF
Chelsea and Randolph and the NUM-
tiral officers of Waterville were III
f ut for the existing conditions, rath-
or than the system.
The next matter to be taken up was
the cider bill, introduced bW Eepresen-
tative Flaherty OF Portland. Mrs. Han
nah J. Bailey of Winthrop Center was
the first speaker. She said that she was
opposed to the passage Of the bill be-
cause it is not needed. She said thai
she understood that the bill was not
drawn by the temperance interests ii
by anyone in sympathy with the tenn
perance cause.
Representative Decker of Weld said
hat he had read that q recent decision
o: the Maine law court made it illegal
to sell even sweet cider in small guam
titles He believed that law enough or
he subject.
Mir. Flaherty of Portland came in al
this point to explain his bill. He said
that his purpose in introducing this
bill was to put hard cider on the same
Flare with other SpirituOuS liquors. He
saw no reason why cider should have
protection over the other liquors.
Mr.. Mckinney of Bridgton took the
matter UP. He said that he didn't care
if the bill was drafted by the "old
scratch" if it was q good law. he'd
favor il. "a spirit has grown up in this
State" he continued, that if Il law is
not fathered by the Woman's Christian
Temperance Union the devil is in it
Now that is wrong. Let's get at the
question on a fair basis"
81 would rather have a barrel OF
whiskey in my home and bring my
children mp beside of it than nave a
ariel If hard cider in the house and
bring up my children beside of it.
say 10 you that there has been more
than one murder committed in the
State OF Maine on hard cider
William A. Comedian of Portland was
the next speaker. He stated that UNI
DER strict enforcement of Sheriff Pen
nell the cider traffic had grown at an
alarming rate.
Mr.. Mckinney took up the cudgel
again when Mr.. Comedian closed. He
said: 1.-THE curse of my town. gentle
men, is hard cider, and patent medi-
cines.'
bradford White of Damariscotta
Mills also spoke OF the use of medicines
and extracts in connection with hard
cider and said that he hoped that the
bill would be passed.
The committee then went into exec
utive session.
Representative Goodwin Of Sanford