Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-03-12
ia, mind their own business as far as

ta' iliHu 'tnelr own business as far as
that is concerned.
You find liquor almost everywhere
open today in the State of Maine. Let's
try local option as many of the other
states nave done; and when you have
done that, l believe the cause of tenn
perance will be advanced Let's stand
together for one grand purpose, and
that is for the uplifting of mankind
ard for the betterment of the young
man i'll this State-for good morals
good homes ard good firesides. That is
my position. my friends. l am earnest
In 1tNI believe in It, 1 have seen the
curse of 1T through my section of my
county and in this State Let's take
1t out of politics. Don't let any party
undertake to make political capital
OF 1t at the expense of the young men
OF the State.
The ladies of the State of Maine
think that 1 am wrong in this matter
but if they knew about it's workings
they would say, let's try something
else. And l promise you myself, the
support of the. element of the Demo-
cratic party which I represent. We
are not in the interests of the saloon;
and when every saloon man in the
State of Maine is in favor of the pro-
hibitory law. l think something is
wrong about it. When the liquor deal
ers in Boston are favoring the pro-
hibitory law, 1 think there is some
thing rotten in it. And that is why
you find the rumseller and those men
who are interested, and the misguided
in their belief. ministers, walking arm
in arm and voting for the prohibitory
liquor law.
Let's join hands as temperance men
and go to the polls and vote for the
best interests of the common people
That is what we want. We all love the
people of the State of Maine.
Liquor is sold openly and the Sturgis
deputies are walking up and down the
street, and the condition cannot be
remedied; and with all these condi-
tons confronting you, you say that
the people of the State of Maine shall
not vote upon it. Then you have all
these laws upon the statute books. And
l cannot conceive for my life, why any
man, Republican or Democrat, upon
the question of resubmission to the
people, should not dare to do it. I will
tell you why I think you do not dare
to do it. 1t is because you are afraid
of the temperance element of the Re-
publican party. Let me say to you,
that they are all right, but they do
not know the practical workings of it.
Let me tell you that you have more
need to be afraid of the more con-
sentative element of your own party,
if you do not submit it.
With these remarks, Mr.. President
and Gentlemen. and I have been sin
cere in them, I make this motion |
introduced this bill, and probably new
e. shall do it again. and I say to you
Pow that if you can conceive of any
Letter way than to submit this, l will
not stand here and hinder it, but will
say Amen to anything that will take
the curse from the State of Maine and
make more temperate people and
create a better public sentiment. With
these remarks. Mr.. President and Sen
ators. I submit this question to you
The only question is. will you go home
10 your constituents and say. we re-
fuse you the right to vote upon this
question? The people feel today in
the State OF Maine-a large proportion
of them-that they have but little to
do With the management of our gov
eminent, and the strength of the gov
eminent is in the people. Certain re-
sponsiblities rest upon them and you
will not have any trouble in getting
the people to the polls to vote. And
after all. our whole government as Il
nation depends upon that program, and
H..
PIE the right to vote upon it. they will
feel that they have something to do
with this great question of State gov
eminent.
Mr.. TIOWES of Somerset: Mr.. Pres
ident: Inasmuch as the distinguished
senator from Knox has seen fit to dis
cuSs this question from somewhat Of
political standpoint perhaps I shall
somewhat follow suit. I am proud of
the Republican party in the State OF
Maine, of it's past history-of it's pres
ent position upon the great issues of
the day and upon its future outlook.
I am proud of the men who have been
associated with it in the years gone
by-prOud of those of the present time,
and proud of those who are to come
in the future For great many years
the Democratic party of Maine almost
invariably preached from the same
text which in substance was something
like this: rs There No Balm in
Gilead; Is There No Physician There ,"
After years of toiling and waiting, after
they had turned their Kaleidoscope up
on things terrestrial as well as those
celestial; after they had viewed the
past and present and likewise the flu
t,Ire; after they had focused their
microscopic powers into the depths of
perdition itself; after the famed doe
tors of law of the Democratic Sanhc-
drin of Maine had perused the Mo-
sale law as promulgated by that
great eXpansionist, Thomas Jefferson;
after they had digested the goth
century version of Jeffersonism as
revised and copyrighted by the illus
trious William j. Bryan, it was only
then they found the balm of human
ills to be free rum and the physician
to he the devil himself. So we have
under consideration the issue of re-
submission. the 10-year-old child of
the Democratic party, child whose
father is his satanic majesty, a child
whose mother is the wholesale and re-