The Republican journal., 1909-02-18
,.,1Iy Three Centuries
.s Agitation and Legislation
ypp..'l Maine 1886 leoe.

NO l.
tbe temperance reform
F'*'I If Maine from the earliest
Sta' tbe present day has been
doTo ~ remarkable things in
fnS ror nearly three centuries
siol' the cradle of temperance
ha' wv scitation, while no people
robI'',g, hemisphere have builded
Fes's ,'r N its three great epochs
total abstinence and pro-
r9'l Nc other phase of our history
c .ooh sorrow and misery as
# mtemperance among our
iS" o.,n the time the axe of our
FLAWS rang through our great
III Elements were established
'-'' .ooffil rivers and the sea
@ +bs present age, the shad-
9"r hos fallen across nearly every
~ ,n~ State. Oh, rum! rum!
'''. have been committed in thy
.oootle nor pen can describe.
D ..s4I our people far more
W. ,o,,rassed the lsraelites, and
w n life. happiness and home.
conflict against the saloon
ar nearly three centuries has
bp' m +b. State which bears a
and IS the most renowned
m,.a Effort in the world. 1t
og. soil that among the
ro.,m avs IN the Western Henri
rs,. adopted in 1886 and also the
,s-r If prohibitory law in
,.1-.r- 1ojy on our continent.
.ror was Grst made by Gen.
1,-.or while i member of the
-..fr.- ;u 1897, as this was
~. .~1 D.. mfoduced his famous
au assembly demanding
r- ronlition of all sale of
,sot tm medicine and the arts. "
rol.ta who may we'll be called
,-,lf.r oil Prohibition, was also
,.sogatpj with the Abolition or
p2rf. movement in Maine, and
,.,,.nare ( this party for Cover
Nn 3,l2 and in the stormy
|s,ns 9tlst Of 1914. Some years
ersra Mead Dow, who became
Iss.. ..Hplance leader and was
Fatn Of Prohibition, took
l. ge- rlh Of Gen. Appleton's
,-r. prohibition ideas and carried
utrF of these distinguish
|al.r4 have more to say later on.
[ifsws aid. our earliest laws against
a1- 7.r enacted in 1886 and
les -.4 YEAR that the famous Will
4rc> EEL, gp a court in Saco, and
| sratar s.rneded in securing from
carrs ! whom Dickens says was
p ar aat to bee trusted" a no.
i Chart, which made the political
Eau- Province of Maine a pala-
wh Georges as Lord Palatine;
! Fr records the fact that Maine
|bmg State IN America that was
nia purely feudal tenure. l
! from tds records of that early
! n Sat5 the following:
s@jersj that any man that doth
| ng teuors OF wine, shall suffer
'Egilol, .aborer or servant to con-
3uEIng in the house except men
aG aoorers upon the working day
@ hour al Inner, a stranger or
ether the said offence being seen
pstlce Of he peace with his linn
cons N. proved by two wit
yaor th4 Justice of the peace,
-Esor strong drink or wine shall
10y a'f-ace ten shillings.
t 'mry-one years after the
dMae E5ND IT'S our first liquor law,
& York issued a liquor law
aHa@@ Thirteen years later,
IN Dix Province of Maine passed
1Vhs .aH against liquor selling:
rom g@-a.tHth there shall not
ar~ othar strong liquors sold,
il cases o1 great necessity.
aH. be seen that the evils of
S.ns bore fruit in very early
Aahe and that it was also
necessary nearly three centuries
F'i7cj our people from the evils
fTr ID.
%lFnS When France began to
an 7Eopr- in the new world of
america French brandy was used
Fs'age among the early settlers
t Who usually appeared in the
e7arngs in the morning to be-
Jay s work with a big jug filled
" brandy which they drank none
-4s| But when the nation that
"I l" the noble Lafayette lost to
i9I North American colonies,
'1l Was used among our people
=" french brandy. In fact, one
"@+lg industries of our mother
ID 'noSs early days was in ship
u' a7r colonies to degrade and
people. Thackeray tells us in
"''''e OF the "Virginians" how
merchant sitting in his count
u5 beautiful summer morning,
Years before the American
'N surveyed with much salts
loia bis window one of his great
~'s up the Avon on happy
'' d voyage to America laden
n '0' from Virginia, which had
'sea for "niggers" and rum.