The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1908-07-19
GOV, PECK ON PROHIBITION
VIEWS CONDITIONS AT BANGOR
BY George W. Peck.

kcc sentinel
Bangor. Me- July lS.-Ths city is
away up towards the roof Of the world,
at the head of navigation on the Pen
obscot river. where ocean steamers
from Boston come each day and return
To Boston during the night AhOv-
the town is dam and a great water
uowcr, where Peuobscot salmon may
be caught and away above. 10 the
north Is the big woods, the lakes, and
the big game that has made Maine
famous, and desirable place for
sportsmen to visit Tde Pcuobscut
river is a logging stream. and the
scene is much like Wisconsin. with
the logs running smaller and fewer
each year. and a certainty that In
few years the logs will cease to come.
the mills will be turned into canning
factories. and Maine will be- com lcllcd
to build up new branches of business
or die at the top like a tree struck
by lightning. and burned at the base
by forest fire. Maine resembles the
middle and northern part of Niscon
/ sin, her soil being like our skunol
| pine. or cut-ovcr lands. but the soil is
gOOi and they raise good crops Al
most every bush, tree. blade o, grass
or weed is he same as one would see
/ riding south to north in Wisconsin
| The people of Maine are a hardy. ad
mirable, good class. with muscles of
/ iron. 1-e average Maine family lives
frugally, eats Goldfish. salt pork and
/ SandcrsUn FIVE
potatoes, milk and apple sauce. and
| goes 10 bed at dark. The breakfast in
| Maine Is early. and hard work is the
order of the day At noon there may
/ be a New England boiled dinner
| plentiful. and at night bread and but
I ter, milk ana the ever present apple
/ sauce, the chores are done and every.
I body goes 10 bed There is no dys
| Tepsia In Maine, and little nervous
/ prostration, for everybody wsrks just
enough out of doors cats properly and
/ sleeps soundly. The people do not
have as much daily pleasure and en-
! joymcnt as they might. for they take
| life quite seriously The young people
do not get as much out of life as
| they ought to, their principal outing
! being generally q sunday schoOl pic
nic, or an excursion of a day TO the
seashorc somewhere. but for the most
| part the young people on the farms
are content 10 work, eat and sleep, and
get married to ncighbors. When the
young people go 10 cities 10 complete
their educatio and get to see lit
tie of the world outside of Maine, they
are seldom content 10 return TO the
old rut. and YOU will find the boys
going west or anywhere that brain
and muscle can find "a place To work
L 81 .H.sI.4
/ from the farms and live a different life
and enjoy being away from the old
state with its admitted narrowness
and contentmont in being fifty years
behind the times.
/ When the time comes that tie lum-
! bcr interests of Maine are no more.
the state will be looking for some
thing to take the place of tnat indus
/ try, but | fear tney will realize too
late inat something must be done.
VITA lumber gone, the shipping fall
| ing off Maine will have TO fall back
/ on her CtOries mat now exist but
which In cotton and wooden goods are
finding strong competition in the
south. and in Yankee notions, which
can be made in Germany and sold in
Maine cheaper than homemade goods
Then they will have the goldfish indus
trv If the cod are not all caught off
the coast a.., taken TO Boston, and the
raising OF potatoes. With season
of potato rot, and the Goldfish
emigrated elsewhere, and the big game
OF the north woods gone Maine will
realize that che has a hard row.
was told down the state, al
Portland and Augusta that when
got to Bangor ! would find that every
thing was widcopCn in the liquor
.usiaess, on account of there being
so many river drivers and lOggers who
were hard drinkers. but | didn't fine
any particular difference at Bangor
there was nothing wide open eNceu
! few wholesale places which were
allowed 10 do business by the Surgi.
commission, ,hough they were bootleg
4 gers, speakeasies, clubs and priyat,
/ rooms where enc cou.I get liquor il
| plenty, and certainly there were mann
| people drunk on the streets Of Ban
gor Saturday night and sunday ma
| was there. The Sturgis Comm.s -
is on the same principle as game war
| dens, men appointed by the admins
| tratiOn 10 stop the sale of liquor, ostcu
| slblN INT the people say the commits
sion Is 70 see that nobody sells liQuo
or drinks IL mat are not supporters
Of the state administration that may
be I'm power. Everybody will tell yol
that the Sturgis commission which
takes It's name from the 'Sturg's law
passed some years ago, is 10 supervise
| prohibition and make it less Of scan
dal than il had been, but the Sturgil
law and its manner OF enforcement II
a worse scandal than the wide open
y prohibition which everybody laughed
: at, and nobody expected It to be en
. forced. There Is one laughahle thing
the express company service at Ban
gor, Some wholesalers of liquor, tha
are not molested by the Sturgis game
wardens, form an express company
and a citizen telephones to the eX
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