Waterbury evening Democrat., 1907-09-06
COLD WATER MEN
Big Gathering al Compounce :. Senators Condemned For
 Action on License Bill.


 parts of the state gathered at Lake Compounce to-day for the third an- nual Christian Citizenship field day of the Allied Churchand Temperance Organizations of Connecticut. Un- usual interest attached to this gath ering as it had been announced that much of the excise legislation before the last general assembly would be explained, and the speakers included four of the members of the house, Representative Ingalls, of Brooklyn, who served on the excise committee, Wheaton of Putnam, Broadbent of Hamden, and Welles of Wethersfield.
 D. L. G. Hohenthal of South Man chester presided and the exercises were opened with a devotional ser vice led by Rev John B. Doolittoe, the house chaplain.
 The convention passed resolutions condemning the following senators for their action in excise matters in the legislature: McGovern, Spellacy and Donovan for filiibustering against the individual license bill on the last day and these were condemn ed for voting against the bill: Spell acy, McGovern, Bradstreet, Middle ton, Butterworth, Blakesley, Homan, Shanley, Hodgkinson, Hurley, Nc Neil, Donovan, Gates, Barnum, Briggs and Shepherd. The action of Senator Hodgkinson will become his torical. says the resolutions for as chairman of the excise committee he became the tool of the breweries and did as they wished at every turn.
 The address of MT Wheaton was entitled "The Objective Point in Flu ture Legislation" and was of con- siderable interest to all those present. MT Wheaton from the standpoint of the business man said that different laws were needed to regulate liquor traffic so that employer and employe might work together for the mutual advantage of each. Liquor is respon- sible, he said, for poor quality of work in many cases and he said there are number of other evils that might be mentioned.
 MT Wheaton spoke at some length on remedy for the present evil and said that the first and foremost thing would be prohibition that would prohibit. Continuing he said: But if this is too high an idea, then next let us cut off the main incentive to many voter, namely the license fee coming to the town, so- that to out line law and it's workings in the towns, it would be something like this: Vote on the license question yes or no. as we do now; do away with all license fee seach comes in as a revenue or rather blood money to the town"
 If the town votes yes, then let everyone who wishes to engage in the business and can produce $2 GOO bond to strictly obey the law. Then have stringent laws with civic league in every town to back up care fully well paid officials. that every one of these license places obey the law, if not deal severely with them on the smallest disobedience of tie law and let their license be forfeited and debar them from ever getting another license and the forfeit of their bond to the town.
 "The main feature of this law would be the voting of no license in most towns, by doing away with the fee. I would vote and work for this law next to prohibition that pro- 1ibits, and next to that law that has for its key-not the doing away of the partnership of the town with the saloon by the license and fee. For am led to believe that town is a | band of voters very much like like | number of men in partnership and | am also of the opinion that because | l man votes no license and still con- inue to live in the town where his | Tote is counted his responsibility | foes not stop because he voted no | icense. But if he partakes, as he | must, by using good roads, schools. ,r any other benefit arising from the of this license money. le is held morally responsible-on he ground that the partaker is as yood as the thief"
 There was a conference on the methods of reform work conducted by Rev R. c. Miller. Many questions on he line of reform work were discuss d. This was followed by a confer 'nee on how to conduct no license