Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1907-02-14

VIII send TO Massachusetts or some other
| state and make the rural towns equal to
our cities. And still YOU tell US that pr1-
| hibitiOn prohibits. 1t is a dclusion and u
| mistake. If you will prohibit. | will vott.
with YOU hut that is impossible. You
have tried it for 30 years and today its
farciCal workings are seen on every
hand. You ask me what 1 would do" If
We must have it among us, it is the duty
OF all good citizens to control 1t. Ii is
the best possible way to save our Young
men whom prohibition has ruined by its
work. Have We more virtue in Maine
than 10 other states of this union where
local option prevails? Are we more moral
than Vermont or New Hampshire? / b.
lieve with Governor Bell of Vermont.
who has been a lifelong prohibitfonist.
and who now is in favor of local option
because he gets a greater inca sure OF
prohibition that they in Vermont want
the rrohibitOry law. Let us try it ana
see if some improvement cannot be mada
to stem the great evil of intcnpcrance
AID lift Maine to q higher plane We
cling tn that method of regulating tho
liquor traffic which makes hypocritcs of
our people. Why cling to a system that
suits the saloon men Of our State? Why
cling to that method that suits the
wholesaler in Massachusetts and other
states? If he would buy a quantity Of
the vilcst compound behind the saloon
door whore they do not Keep anything Of
value and the workman who drinks n
small amount should so home crazcd
from its effects ,and the results are seen
in our papers every day-assauits upon
the wife and family is the result.
II am q temperance man and would
vote to annihilat" il from the face Of
thu earth, but that cannot be done Then
IL the nam" of good society. in til" name
of nurcr homes and happy firASidcs.
plead for 4 change. I demand il for the
young mon Of our State. 1t breeds
crime.
"I."t us h no longer deceived. IF after
YOU have tried 4 change and il is found
that it does not wOrl; 50 well as prohi-
hilton. I will vote to return to it, 1t is mo-
that the men who are in favor OF resub,
mission want more rum, but they want
moro temperance and better society. They
desire to save the Young men of our
State to lift them irto a higher plane
Is VIC must have the curse among us
then regulate it in the best possible way
Let lis follow after ~ states Of this
union. who control it better than we do
or can DO under the prohibitory law. 1t
has not ana will not be suppressed in
Milne. Then regulate it and then moth
crs and fathers Of our State will rejoice
and society will be purified and temper
ancc will he visible everywhere cvermorn
AS q temperance man 7 urge it. Let
a all
to believe in the referendum Why not
trust tie people? Let them have thu
privilege of voting upon it and then if
th"y vote to retain it. then make the
penalty adequate to the crime
The party to which I have the honor
t. represent in the Senate believes in
temperance, hut they are appalled, ut the
increase of intcmperance in the State and
demand a better method to regulate it in
the interest of good society and temper
ancc. Let them who shout against re-
submission practice what they preach. IF
they did, the liquor traffic would not ne
profitable in Maine
"Prohlbition does not prohibit and new
or will, and every wcll-informcd man and
woman in Maine knows it. Hence let us
which hvpocrtical prohibition is making
in orr good State of Maine and to that
end L will lend my best Efforts
The senator was questioned at some
lrHGth on the merits of the question
ANA upon statements made hy him in
his speech.
He was followed by the Hon. w. r.
Hain"s Of Watcrvill" who made the fol-
lowing statements:
on january 18th. last. | gave out for
publication some suggestions in regard
to the Republican party in the State
Of Maine. This interview WAS intend
cd to present to tn" people certain facts
and phases of the so-called Rum
Question, an for no other purpose; and
did not expect that | should have ID
publish z key by which to read it. E;ut
from certain newspaper articles. edi-
torial ana otherwise, which have since
appeared, it would seem that [ did not
make myself understood in that inter-
view. or that certain people did not
care to understand ms, and that 9th
crs. for no other purpose than mis-
| representation, or possible political
| capital. have made q very ingenious
| study Of miSintCrpreting my meaning
and of pcrsistcntly placing that niiain-
| depreciation before the public.
1t is Il sad condition Of affairs when
q man cannot make himself understood
| on a great moral and economic QucS-
| ton. Uncle Scion Chase in the Lewis
ton journal Of February I'd, with his
usual wisdom and political sagacity
says: "Thc rum question il the para
mount issue in Maine. and thCr" is al
| irresistible conflict between license ans
prohibition" If the Watcrvill" Scnti-
| mel was fair enough 10 admit this. dnC
| the Portland express, unprcjudicrc
| enough to see it. tn" one Wuuld not az
| cuSc me of stealing the Democratic
| platform. ana the other would not cal
| me a Democrat ready to serve the
| Devil in tho livery of Heaven" AnC
| the Lewiston journal. with its ''WIrn
rersonal regard for M, and lis belief
| that | an sound in my views Of re-
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