Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-03-12


of hypocrisy. 1 admit the Republican
party has been hypocritical. / regret
it, not for one moment do | condone it.
On the other hand 1 condemn it. You
must remember that whatever has
been done to advance the temperance
interests in the State Of Maine during
the past so years has been accom-
plished through the Republican party.
Surprising there has been hypocrisy III
the enforcement of the Maine Prohibit
tory law, is that a sufficient reason to
demand its repeal. l contend it is not.
On the other hand, commence at the
other end of the proposition and re-
move the hypocrisy The public official
who has made his pledge to the people
to enforce and execute the laws and
who has taken his oath before Goa to
do the same and then worships with
tbs rumsellers; the private citizen who
will barter away the apparent temper
aace convictions of lifetime for the
sake of political preferment, such
types of citizens. my fellow senators,
are the cheapest and the meanest men
that walk upon the footstool OF the
Almighty God. In morality and char
acter they are blacker than the black
est Ethiopian; they are h!acker than
the densest thcket of the African jun
gle; they are blacker thar the blacklist
shades Of the remotest reccsses of the
northwest portion of He'll itself. Would
that .here was a public opinion suffi-
cient to oStraciZe forever such type
OF manhood from the immunities Of
the American citizenship; would that
they might be as man without a
country; would that they might be
condemned to the ninth circle of
Dantc's Hades, where the worlds
greatest traitors abide such as Judas
Iscariot. Brutus and Benedict Arnold,
where this assemblage of nullifers and
batrayers may have the joyous COM
panionship one with another and
Where also they may have daily access
to the editorial columns of some of our
Democratic newspapers.
AS I have just said, there has been
hypocrisy in the enforcement of the
Maine prohibitory law and all that by
pocrisy has been hurled upon the Re-
publican party, but before | am
through I shall endeavor to show you
that there is a little in the minority
party.
What does resubmission mean? 1t
means nothing more or less than free
rum ard the licensed grog shop where
LIQUID fire and distilled damnation are
sold in. the front, where gambling and
profane revelry are freely practlced
in the rear, where lewd women allure
men to destruction overhead. where
perdition yawns beneath. This Is not
an overdrawn picture of the places
that we are asked to license. When
you speak of making licensed saloon
respectable, it is something that never
has existed, does not now exist and
never will exist. The licensed saloon
stands as a symbol of that horrible
trinity of guzzling. gambling and lust.
I condemn the policy of resubmls-
sion in behalf of the young men of
Maine The young men Of Maine do not
need any rum sympathizer or any rum
euzz,er to dictate to them upon their
future welfare and wcll-being as well
as that of posterity.
The young men Of Maine love the
scenes of their childhood. They are
proud of the home CT their nativity
and prouder still to be citizens OF this
State that is destined to endure as
long as the nation shall live. The
Young men of Maine denounce the
damnabie Islander and the hypocrisy
against their beloved State of any man
VINO says he had rather bring his boy
up in Il high licensed state than IN
the state of Maine, and then IN the
very next breath says he would he
willing to be q public oticeholder ot
State that isn't fit for his boy to be
reared. I am charged with a message
from the young men of Maine ana
what is that message? 1t is this: The
sooner that any man holding these
ideas goes Into a high licensed state or
into the wild and woolly West or Arl-
iona, or a Western mining camp the
better. not only for the community III
which he dwells, not only for the
Maine State Grange. not only for the
State of Maine itself, but also for the
Young men that now are and those yet
to be. And when the rum-dazed poker
nlayers and blear-eyed -guzZlers
behold the would-be Governor of Maine
in all his angelic form and cherublc
graces, CARRIED in the priestly robes OF
qualification and sanctification that
have passed the rigid circumspecticn
of high priest. the Democratic SAN
hedri:l, il is then these poor deluded
knights of high licensed state or of the
Western mining camp may truly say
that the prophecy of the Holy Writ has
been fulfilled in that the comforter has
come.
Young men of Maine stand upon a
lofticr, graEder, noblcr code of prin-
ciples than have yet been conceived
bv our Democratic friends.
At the close of the last Legislature
the bugle was sounded by the Water
Vile Sentinel calling attention of the
young men of Maine to the great con-
version that occurred up in central
Maine.
l denounce resubmission in behalf
of the womenhood from Fort Kent to
Kittcry Point, from Quoddy Head to
Hampshire's line. Perhaps some OF the
women may be fanatics or cranks, but
granting such to be the case I can as
sure YOU that God Almighty created
such women to cope with these very
men who are advocating a proposition
as far-fetchcd in the opposite direction
1 reject the proposition in behalf of
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