Daily Kennebec journal., 1910-09-23
Our Letter Box
On Resubmission.

| by the Democrats in the recent ere
ton was a political revolution Which
| has shaken our State from the noun
tains to the sea as nothing else mas
done since the great Civil War and the
lGreenback DAYS of Solon Chase-NoW
| II is NOT nv purpose in this article To
assign any reasons for the overthrow
| Of the Republican party in Maine only
briefly to say that any statements
| that this political turn over was large
| lv on account of our liquor laws as
claimed by several papers Is not so
and any such statements misrepre-
sents the true situation in the state
|of Maine No one should be deceived
by them because thousands of our re-
spectacle citizens voted to make MI.
! Plaisted Governor who will never vote
| to license the open rum SHOPS III
| Maine which Hon. Champ Clark of
| Missouri. the Democratic leader in
Congress- says turns out only Thugs,
blacklegs. prostitutes and thieves. ana
| is disgrace before God and man..
| Governor elect PlaiSted stated in his
addresses in all parts of Maine If elect
ed to the Governorship he would re-
peal the Sturgis law and give us re-
| submission but the election returns
show that he and his party can do
nothing of the kind without the aid
and assistance Of the Republicans
and good many Of our temperance
people believe that enough Republi-
cans members of the House will join
with the Democrats in order to have
our temperance laws submitted to the
people and that it will be a waste of
| n before
sembly to fight resubmission Now
Imy temperance friends have a right
to their views but as for me if | am
| the only temperance man in the State
of Maine to fight resubmission before
| the Legislature | shall be there if alone
| to enter my protest. | have always
looked upon resubmission as only a
question of license and have fought it
Everywhere in our State for years
and | will stand by my principles if |
| stand alone. was somewhat
| surprised to read in the Journal that
Brother Edward H. Emery at the head
Of Maine Good Templars and secretary
|of the Christian Civic League said,
that the Christian Civic League would
not oppose resubmission.'' l am a
| member of the Civic League and |
cannot believe but what this splendid
| organization will oppose resubmission
or at least make a protest against it
at Augusta this winter If the Demo-
| Gratis want to take the responsibility
| of resubmitting our temperance laws
to the people, let them go ahead and
| do it, but let us as temperance men
stand by our colors and fight it to the
bitter end. Now then what we want
Ito do is to combine the temperance
forces of Maine-the w. c. T. L.; the
|Chrlstian Civic League: the Maine
Good TemparS; the Prohibitionists
and every other temperance organiza-
tlon in our State irrespective of partv
| or rellglon In my opinion all these
organizations should be united into
one powerful committee or organiza-
ton with general Headquarters
either in Portland or Wateryille TO
take charge of the campaign for home
| against the saloon in Maine
| in the meantime | do urge all our
| temperance workers To do personal
| work in the homes Of our people I
| nave already started in mvself olonr
this line and | rejoice to say am
| having splendid success AS my busi-
ness takes me into all parts of Maine
| am meeting a large number Of Demo-
| Gratis who tell me that they worked
| early and late to elect Plaisted CIV
| erh"r but when il comes to the ones-
| ton of opening up Maine to the IL
| cthse law and the dstilery. brewery
|dhd open rum shops everywhere tban
| theN VIII be found voting to retain
| fr"hlbltion in our constitution.
| we nave a right to destroy the
| fiiuor cause. or any business, or trade
or custom that tends to DESTROY tho
| oldte by dehauchinS its citizenship
| ne hlSheSt courts in our land affirm
| WIS pflnclple, the supreme court of
me United states having declared
'''t 'he liquor traffic is a curse and
| 'ildt an! state or government has q
| '7h' 'hrouSh ITS police force to pro-
| 'ect l'S own llfe. We have a right to
| Say II IL Is a sin for a man to oct
| VI u''k ana abus" his wife and children
| ti'ail certainly it is sin for . state
VI hation to license drunkard max,
i"S. 40 half way measures i'm dealino
| "th great wrong like the Ionor
'ia'iic lor me and | say it is q die
srace Tor any state to legaIize the
rum traffic. ''ie
Every day counts for lie and tho
| temperance people should get to work.
"' once arousing our people TO action
open the schoolhouse for nrobih;tian
| speeches and SOW our State as Can
>eai DOW used to say Knee Keen
WIN prohibition literature" And If
we VIZ are 10 nave rcsubmission which is
o''y means of overthrowing orr
"1p, a"ce laws. we will show the
""i,o on the second Monday in Sen
eeiloef' 1911 that our State stands
hr'. hini lor the great principles of pro-
nlp'''oh which it adopted half a cen-
.urS ago and that the brewer and dis
'i'er OF the devil God of drink can
never lind footing on our soil
| Goa save the State of Maine
FRANK w. GOWEN
| Waterville. " n->'