The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1908-04-10

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335 for every 100000; three time
as many as in Maine. Among the OF
lenses were: Against the public peac
in Maine 8; Massachusetts,, Al
Against the public morals, Maine
1863; Massachusetts,, LIP. Assaults
Maine, SO; Massachusetts,, 345
Drunk and disorderly, Maine, 146
Massachusetts,, 1911.
June 80, 1904, there were of pris
oners for drunkenness in Maine 10,
and in Massachusetts, 2,110, pro
portion of more than ten to one
when if parallel it should be four tt
one. This is record with which
Maine has no occasion to be discour
aged.
These are splendid and unparallel
ed results, and demonstrate an aetna
progress in Maine markedly in ex
cess of Massachusetts and elsewhere
Whether these results are attributed
to the unusual intelligence and the
natural energy, enterprise, thrift and
capacity with which the people Of
Maine are fortunately endowed to a
degree not found elsewhere, OF
whether they are to be accounted fol
by the fact that, because of the poll
cy of prohibiting the liquor traffic,
they are able more effectively to con-
serve and utilize their energies, or
both, I leave to be answered by the
critics.
! The facts exist If the critics pro-
pose to eliminate the prohibition of
the liquor traffic as an important and
controlling factor, the burden is upon
them to do so. What is the differ
! entiating cause? While the sugges-
ton is not intended to apply to Mr..
| Garvin, 1t ought perhaps to be said
| that an opinion upon question like
this is not entitled to any great
weight WIN 1t is based simply upon a
flying trip through the state, stop
ping at a few hotels, or upon Willing
away an elegant leisure on the COM
Portable veranda of some luxurious
summer cottage, reasoning from SUI
perficial and sometimes imaginary
premises, nonch alantly ignoring all
careful investigation of the essential
facts involved.
It is not difficult under such cir
cumstances to reach conclusions you
are looking for, and in this manner
many of the adverse judgments that
have been rendered upon the law
have been reached by worthy peo-
pie
All of these facts are not only con-
sistent, but they are entirely in har-
mony with. and are important factors
in furnishing a most adequate and
ample foundation for an article in
The Century Magazine for Novem-
Der, 1904, on "The Brain of the Ma
ton" in which Mr.. Gustave Michaud
saws: "A steady fall in the birth
rate of men of talent Is met with in
going from New England westward.
While in New England out of every
100000 births Sd are those of men
of talent, in New York that number
falls to a. in Ohio to 10, in Indiana
to II. in Illinois to 10, in Missouri
to 6, in Kansas to 2, in Colorado to
l."
In further celebrating his propo-
sition it is significant, as indicating
the potential portion of New Eng
land, that he uses the state of Maine
for his most effective illustrations.
He says: THE state of Ohio is COM
parable in area to the state of Maine.
In 1926 there were in Ohio 5 uni
versities and colleges (Ohio Univer
sity. Miami University Franklin
College, Kenyon College, and West
ern Reserve University against two
in Maine (Bowdoin College and Col
by University. Twenty years later
there were in Ohio eight times the
of colleges and universities
then found in Maine; yet the present
birthrate of celebrities is more than
twice as great in Maine as in Ohio.
Nor has the state of Indiana remain
ed behind in educational matters. In
eighty years. old Indiana founded
six universities and colleges against
two in Maine, one in New Hampshire
and two in Vermont. In spite of
such advantages that generation and
the following show but one-fifth of
the birthrate of men of talent OBJ
served in northern New England"
Names fifty-six years of experience
under the prohibitory law does not |
appear to have begun to produce any
very marked result in the line of the
of the character and |
quality of her people.
In this Connection it is interesting
to note that the record of Maine and
in the production of
teachers for every 100000 persons
from five to twenty-four years of age
Is as follows:
1870 1880 1890 1900
Maine 49,. .161 221 252 259
1875 148 1874 1888
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Excess ..... 35 70 8S II
In the consideration of any analy-
sis like the foregoing it is always to
be remembered that there is moth
ing in the policy or law of Maine that
I ifferentjateS her from her sister |