The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1908-07-19

smart go 90 'b, aatov to uak
stun out OF bottles tO,y have hru4at
along and ,hou throw tuo mJ' boot
ties down do, sewer. aud uyN. day tine
'audluu takes 10 ont iu wearing
Other business men say Thar thcy hc
lic,c great majority of voters would
favor hrl license and some decent sa.
looms. to the Hypocrisy that exists. $50
they talk rcsuhmiesiuu. which is to
have the legislature give the people
chance 90 vote as tu what they ut The
present day want The uld original
prohihitiUuists who started Maine .n
her present unhealthy condition gr'
gone. and the younger men who hlvc
been ont i'm the world. to college, and
have returned may want to vote. and
the feeling is that they have IN right
To say whether they favor the rres'
laws. mcuforccd. or better AMI mor'
liberal and upto.ddtc laws. tnd hey
are going to keep ON agiatinL uuul
they succeed They might succcnl
in bringing about rcsubmis- op his
year and they would if 10 Wv, not
presidential year, and they may amy
way. There are more aIrCs.s for
drunkenness In Bangor. city the sil"
of Oshkosh. than iu Milwaukee. a cits
of 100000 inhabitants The Sturgis
commission is farce aud scandal.
and prohibition In Maine rs the laugu.
ing stock ui the world. and her own
people laugh al their own state. tn
people ON the streets, I'M the presence
of strangers who may hc cummvutiug
a "a Ia
satisfied look. like the cat that hd-
swallowed the canary bird. ana act
as though ucy had had plcnt, to
drink. and it they think YOU want them
tu DO so they vii, show YOU wher"
the, got No. went out io a little
pious temperance park ON the trolley
ont ut Bangor ON SUNDAY. and 10 was
uitiml to see wurkinEucu who had
drank from the bottle of poison they
had brought with them until cy
were cralE. and then became sleepy
and unconscious. when they did not
mean to get Boo such @ condition, and
would not have done So if they could
have bought glass ur two of beer
went 90 Old Town. mp the river
from Bangor fifteen miles ana lo gd
typical oli lUgsiug town. one street
mile long or 80 beside tho river. and
an Indian reservation of islands. and
across The river where the Indians are
so rich trey do not have 90 work and
instead Of making mCccas'Es and
bead work 10 sell they buy CuriCs az
wholesale houses to sell 90 tourists,
+ and hire tailors 10 press their pants,
but I'm many houses OF the Indians
a. VAi.tl d
needs suffer. except after they drink
H. The Old Town is pretty old, and
pretty dead. and with the last pass
inp saw log the burial would take
place, but for a few upto-datc canoe
/ facturca and a min or two. There
most people Joke about prohibition
and say you cant get drink, but ~
YOU go up stairs or down cellar with a
+ citizen it is an of At bar llarbor I
found the situation different, no stun
anywhere. because the community is
nearly AN cOttngcr-. rich and with the
cellars full. all except J. ID. Rookie
fpllcr Jr. who is a newcomer and
piuus. never having drank anything
stronger than hutt,rmilk Bar ilar
bor is about the most fashionabl,
home ON the coast for the rich, there
being plenty of cottages that cost ur
into the hundreds of thousands ui
dollars but There is no beach M
hathc in, the city being on the shores
of an inland bay, with the ocean ont
side, so rocky YOU couldn get to the
water without a lifcbuoy. Bar Har
Dor is ON Mount Desert Island, an is
land twenty miles or so long, contain
ing three townships, and no automo
bile on the island, and no electric
cars, all the transportation being
horse power. Every cottager has fine
horses. and drive about the beautiful
streets with 10 sound of the auto
horn and no fear Of having to iumI
for their lives when they cross tn,
street And yet the police tell m,
that there Is a good deal or drunken
ness, and arrests are frequent, not o
cOttagers, hut of men who labor. a