Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1907-02-06
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Rev. Clinton Howard, of Rochester,
n. v, Speaks His Mind.

Rev. Clinton Howard, of Rochester,
n. Y, Speaks His Mind.
In a recent address in Rochester, n. Y,
Rev. Clinton Howard, fresh from the cam
paign in Maine, presented an unanswer-
able defence of prohibition results in that
State, which deserves to be published YER
batim in every newspaper and periodical,
daily, weekly or monthly, in America,
which champions law and order and OPP
poses the rising tide of corruption bred by
the legalized liquor traffic.
Mr.. Howard gave the history of the
Maine prohibitory law from the time of
its adoption down to the late election,
quoting governors, congressman and
United States senators and from the Off
cial records of the State and federal CEN
sus in showing the good results of prohibit
tion in operation.
sit is true" he said, ''that the law has
been violated in the large- cities of the
State, just as there are thieves and house,
breakers and murderers in Rochester,
with 800 admissions to the county peni-
Tertiary in spite of our prohibitory laws
against them and police department vigil
liant to suppress them.
"But there is more saloon anarchy in
Rochester under license, and of more
dangerous and constituencies kind, in
twenty-four hours, than in the whole
State of Maine under prohibition in an
entire week. But there is this difference
between the law breakers of Maine and
the law-breakers of Rochester: There
they are arrested and convicted and jailed !;
here they are assisted, acquitted and
elected.
ssWe read in the public press frequent
reports about the failure of prohibition,
and the number of saloons in operation in
the state of Maine. The statement is a
lie. There are no saloons, as we under
stand them, in the state of Maine to-day.
aft every United States tax receipt is
sued for the state of Maine represented q
place where liquors were sold in violation
of the State law, it would give them only
in the entire State. But that represents
the liquor selling drug stores. The State
agencies have been driven from the State
or are serving time in Jail.
"From every joint under prohibition in
Maine there are sixteen joints under Ii
cense in New York, and 1900 state Ii
censed saloons besides that are worse than
any back-alley, third-story, pocket ped
ding joint under prohibition in Maine.
And for every tax receipt joint in Maine
there are twenty under license in Ohio.
Not only are there fewer joints under pro-
hibition, but they are more difficult to
find.
"Portland is city of 10000 souls, and
you can walk the entire length of its main
street for two and one-half miles, down
one side and back on the other, and you
will not see the sign saloon or anything
that stands for the saloon over any door;
you will not see an assortment of bottled
goods in any window; you win not see
any place of business with screen doors
and Opaque constructions, hiding from the
public eye the scandalous conduct of its
customers; you will not smell the rotten
odor that comes from the dew of perdi-
ton and decays the character of its pat
rons; and that shortest of all routes for
our American girls between earth and be-
meath it, that is advertised as the ladies'
entrance, is conspicuously absent.
$50 it is all along the line. call your
attention to the absence of poverty, which
is seen on the streets of all license cities.
sGen. Neal Dow said: AT the time of
the adoption of the prohibitory law,
Maine was one of the most drunken and
poorest states in the union. There were
seven distilleries and two breweries in
Portland alone. The evidence of poverty
was seen everywhere in neglected farms,
dilapidated houses and general unthrift.'
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