Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1907-11-26
TOM SAWYER OF ROCKLAND.

by lectures and ca by literature.
The four fields are:
% Local, (2) State, (3) National, and
a; International
Congress has enacted u important laws
relating to impurity. divorce. the Sab
bath, and intoxicants, that were drawn
by the Bureau. which also defeated a
bad law to legalize race gambling in the
District of Columbia, and another of like
purpose in the Pennsylvania Legislature
The Bureaus Pacific Coast District Sec
rotary drew and carried to victory the
new Sunday law of Idaho, which is work.
ing well. In all state Legislatures good
laws will be promoted by our secreta-
ries, and bad laws defeated. Locally law
enforcement will be aided wherever they
go as lecturers Much can be done by
interviews of such experts with public
officials. The Bureaus very extensive
files of information are made widely use
full by correspondence. Best of all, we
can reach moral leaders in all lands
with two ounces of stirring literature at
a cost of three cents each, $50, per 1860.
Our international specially is to in
form and arouse and express public sem
lied governments to prohibit the sale
of intoxicants and opium to uncivilized
and newly civilized races.
The emancipatio Of China from opium
having been assured by the action Of the
British and Chinese governments, and
victory over opium in the Philippines.
having been doubly decreed for March
1, 1868. to all of which the International
Reform Bureau materially contributed.
the wav is open to drive the white mans
rum also from the mission fields, in the
name of conscience and of commerce. To
do this we need $4,000 for more speak,
ers and literature. to enlist. first, the
British people all over the world. and
then Continental nations in the Bureaus
proposal. endorsed by the United States
Senate and President Roosevelt, and
pending before the British government
for its approval also, that all rations
shall by treaty cooperation suppress the
sale of intoXicantS and opium arlong all
uncivlizcJ races. There is no reason to
expect this proposal will succeed with
out worldwide agitation, nor is there
any good reason to expect it will fail if
supported adequately by international
public sentiment. which undoubtedly ex-
lists, hut must be aroused and expressed
The four forces united in our internal
tionaI crusade. as i'll no other project
are.
~ The reform Orga MIA tons, f) the
missionary societies. so the chambers
of commerce. "a tho governments
Tho Bureau has Il lecturers constantly
a: work. one in Australia, one in Cam
ada. soon to go to Eastern Asia. 10 in
the United States. Other lecturing sec
retarics should be added at London. Ber-
lin and Calcutta. and at least nine more
in the United States and Canada
The Reform Bureau is now advocating
a clause that will be inserted in every
law that is passed by the Legislature
which will read as follows:
1.-THE law makes it the duty of each
prosecuting attorney. sheriff. constable,
city or town marshal and all other pub
lie officers of the state to inform against
and prosecute all persons guilty of vio-
lating this act; and any officer who re-
fuses or wilfully neglects to do so shall
be subject to q fine of $50 or $780, and his
Office shall be declared vacant for the
remainder of his term