Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1907-02-06

SIT is not so under prohibition. ] MADE
II a point to walk over during the day the
cities where spoke at night, gong INTO
the working quarters and where the most
humble live, and nowhere in the country
are the people better housed than they are
in Maine This is particularly true OF the
farming population. Maine is not an
agricultural state, but in no other state 90
you see such we'll kept and white painted
farm property as you see from the car
windows in Maine.
1.-THE census report of 1905 shows an in
crease in the manufacturing output over
1907 of 271s per cent. Wage earners IN
creased in these five years II per cent. ana
wages increased 30 per cent.
'sMaine is the only state in the Union
that has more savings bank depositors than
voters; with 100000 more depositors and
1000, 900 more money deposited in them
than the great manufacturing license state
OF Ohio with six times as Tany people.
'sNot only are the people prosperous, but
the State as business corporation is
prosperous, without one dollar OF revenue
from the saloon We are often asked
what we will do for revenue in the absence
of tine liquor traffic. Maine illustrates
the answer of Gladstone when he was
asked that question at the time the local
veto bill was being pressed in English
parliament: with a sober people, said he,
mot wasting their earnings, / shall know
where to obtain revenue
''ln New York it is proposed to abolish
the state tax by grating on the saloon.
Maine taxes her corporations. so that the
people are called upon for less than 81
600, 600 for all state purposes, and the state
tax is only "a mills on the dollar.
sMost important of all is the effect of pro-
hibition upon the child life OF the State.
Maine has the largest percentage OF the
total population in the public schools of
any one of the north Atlantic states, in
Guiding New York. With twenty million
dollars revenue from the saloon in the
Empire state, Governor Higgins reported
in his last message to the Legislature that
illiteracy among the admit population OF
his state is greater than it is in England,
France and Scotland; thirteen times
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times greater than it is in Denmark, and
twenty times greater than it is in Norway,
Sweden and Germany.
meanwhile Maine, without one dollar
OF revenue from the saloon, has more
school teachers to every 10000 of her
people and more teachers in proportion to
her school population than any other of
the fortyfive states.
''Best of all, with the sober fathers of
Maine, child labor has been almost en-
tirely abolished. There are nearly $780,
900 children under sixteen years of age
working in the mills, mines and factories
of the United States, and nearly as many
women, in spite of the protective tariff.
the gold standard, and 100000 names on
the pension roll of the nation, and the
prosperity speeches of Uncle Joe Cannon.
sin the factories inspected in the EN-
pire state in the census year which gave
employment to $4,000 men, there were
found employed 100000 women and girls.
One woman or girl to an average of two
and fraction men in the factories of New
York under license.
"Maine reports only 400 children en-
ployed in the manufacturing establish
ments of the entire State that last year
produced S144,OOO,000 worth of manu-
featured products. We employ more
children and women than that in Roch-
ester, in either the shoe or clothing in
dustry, with only 81, 900, 600 output.
"Under license the mother and children
are forced into the shoe and clothing and
cotton factory, because the father divides
his envelope. with the drunkard factory.
Under prohibition the father is in the fac
tory, the mother us in the home and the
children are in the public school.
"This is what prohibition has done for
Maine, in spite Of license states all around
it, smuggling in their whiskey, and half
hearted enforcement, due to political
treachery by the dominant party at home.
"Last of all, l ask you to compare the
public men that are sent to Washington
from the prohibition state of Maine with
those who are sent to represent the license
states of New Jersey, Pennsylvania and
New York. Scarcely one OF the latter
has congressman who is known outside
OF the district that elected him, and some
of them are forgotten on the inside.
"But not SO with Congressman Dingley
and Tom Reed and Charles z. Littlefield.
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