The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1907-12-26
advantage of this contribution to diet
is that it communicates salty flavor
to other food.-HartfOrd Times.
Temperance Wave in Great Britain.
Falsehoods About Maine

One of the most prominent temper
ance workers in Maine, Rev. Almon S.
Bisbee of South Portland, returned re-
Gently from across the big pond, where
he had been since August in the inter-
ests of those opposed to the liquor traf-
fic in Ireland and England.
Mr.. Bisbee sailed from Boston in
August on the steamship Republic and
landed at Liverpool, going direct from
that city to Belfast, Ireland. He made a
tour of the north of Ireland under the
auspices OF the Irish Temperance
League, speaking in nearly all of the
cities and larger towns of that part of
the Emerald Isle, -devoting nearly all of
the time during the months of Septem-
Der and October to that purpose, max
ing several addresses in the city of Bel
fast.
From that city he continued his trip
to England, where at Manchester he
attended the meeting of the United
Kingdom Alliance. This alliance was
organized shortly after the Maine law
was passed in 1851. General Neal Dow
after the organization of the alliance,
made tour of England and was very
successful, his good work having much
to do with the success of the alliance
during its lifetime.
At the present time the people of
England have no voice in the licensing
of the saloons, but the law throughout
that country allows any one to sell, pro-
viding they have the price of a license
| and the licensing board sees fit to grant
one.
Mr.. Bisbee states that at the present
time there is great wave for temper
reform n9SSinO tho ra
| kingdom and a great amount of the
credit for it is due the late Sir Wilfred
Lawson, the first leader of the temper
ance party to have seat in the house
of commons.
| AT the next meeting of Parliament,
sometime in February, temperance
measures will be introduced and those
most interested in the measure have
little fear of the ultimate result, as the
passing of them wculd be most pleas
ing to the masses. d greater part of the
entire population of the Kingdom
being interested Individually or eollec-
lively in the present temperancetmove-
ment
The whskey crowd in England is
daily defamlng the State of Maine and
has gone Sc far as to publicly state
that Maine is nothing more than lit
tie He'll and that the terrible (?) con-
ditions here are traceable, as they state,
to the damnable Prohibition Law
| The cities there have been flooded
with literature, by the whiskey people,
of alleged conditions in the State of
Maine and unless something is done by
good people of the Pine Tree State to
suppress such Infamous literature the
State will be the loser of many thou
sands of dollars that would be spent by
tourists who annually visit America
but will give Maine wide berth, not
caring to come here under the condi-
tons that this literature represents.
There are, of course, many people in
England and Ireland who are CONVEX
SAINT with the true conditions, and
know what is said in this literature de-
rogatory of Maine and sent broadcast
over the land, is not true, nevertheless
those not acquainted with the true con-
dtions are greatly misled.
Some of this literature is sent from
Portland and is sent with the intent and
purpose of misleading. The senders,
in several instances, are prominently
identified with public affairs. On the
steamship Mr.. Bisbee met several Eng
lishmen of note, among them Mr.. M.
j. Bank, K. c., Baron Pallis, Lord
| Chief Justice of Ireland and they were
all loud in their praises of Maine and
stated that they considered it one of
the incest places in the whole world.
Mr.. Dunblebee, Magistrate of Lon
don, has visited Portland and he also
was much pleased with the city and
the conditions under the Prohibitory
Law and was satisfied that they could
not possibly be improved under license.
So much pleased was he that on one
occasion while seated upon platform
with body of business men, the ques-
ton of Portland's condition was dis
cussed and several undertook to defame
Portland. Mr.. Dundlebee then and
there arose and declared the reports to
be false, as he knew the conditions in