Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-11-14
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Mrs. Stevens Vigorous
Address al Baltimore.
SAYS Maine Landslide Not
Due TO Prohibition.
Opposes DrinkingP t'sheaIth
in Alcoholic Drink.

cigarette ollloNilIS a -ioN - -
crease among the women of America
according to Lillian Nj. N. Stevens
president of the National Women
Christian Temperance Union. Address
ing the annual convention of the or
ganization here Saturday, she SAID IN
part:
I'VE are sometimes told that drink
among women is on the increase. IL
can hardly be SO among the outcasts
and lower classes for it is largely
drink which has brought them Where
they are. Alcoholic beverages cannot
justly, even among women, be called
class drink. tor alcohol in tn" costly
wine glass is as deadly and dangerous
as it is in The dingy whiskey mug.
I'VE are sometimes told that there
is much cigarette smoking among
women. In the course of my travels
in England and America 1 have never
seen a woman with cigarette in her
mouth, except in certain localities iii
New Mexico, where the surroundings
We're not at all pleasant to con-
template There is reason to believe
that some women in England do smoke
cigarettes and we are told that there
are some in America of like habit.
have seen now and then a woman in
howell smoking a pipe.
Il am glad that the National and
Worlds w. c. Il. L. has a department
Of antinarcOtics and l am happy in
believing that the number OF women
who smoke cigarettes in elegant homes
or who smoke tobacco in any form,
in the tramp lodging house are Very
few in this country. and | am partic
uiarly glad that the youths are being
taught to Shun the nicotine poison,
and this teaching is greatly helped by
the requirement of many business
firms that their employees shall not use
cigarettes
Referring to the white slave" traf-
fic. the speaker reviewed recent fed
it and continues
1T matters little whether the traf-
fic is 'organized' or not. The fact that
it exists in New York and elsewhere
is sufficient to arouse humanity loving
people. Without any eXaggera ton it
is appalling enough to arouse the most
apathetic. and Investigations in some
cities have revealed that even little
girls in their infancy are sold into
these dens of infamy.'
Mrs. Stevens vigorously recomlnend-
ed an amendment to the Federal Con-
stitution prohibiting polygamy and
giving to Congress power to enforce
such prohibition by suitable legisla-
ton. She quoted a resolution to this
end which has already been adopted by
New York, West Virginia, Delaware,
Missouri, Iowa. Maine, North Dakota,
New Jersey. North Carolina, Pennsyl-
vania. California, Minnesota and
washington. We earnestly hope"
she added. that the W. c. T. U. in
the remaining states will make a de-
termined effort to secure the adoption
of this resolution. 1t can be introduce
ed into either branch of the Legisla-
ture and if adopted concurrence given
by the other branch"
Inc JetfrieS-JohnSOn prize fight came
IN for its share of criticism and Mrs.
stevens urged adoption of the bill now
pending in Congress prohibiting the
interstate transportation of fight pic
lures. Linking woman suffrage with
Inc cause of temperance she said:
1T is an encouragng sign of the
times that many prominent newspa-
pefS ana journals recently have print
ed so much that is Favorable 70 va
man Suffrage. To-day as never be-
lofe, women work in professions and
occupations from which they were for
merry debarred: and share with men
IN educational opportunities ana hon
"rs. True manlnesS and true woman
lIneSs will be permanently maintained
not through the supremacy of either
sex. but by equality and justice to all
irrespective of sex. This is the key.
note of the woman's suffrage move
men:"
other subjects touched upon in tho
address were the need for a federal
law giving prohibition states the now
er to regulate interstate sbinments 80
liquor, the benefit of the anti-cantoa,
Id" ana the progress of prohibition
states.
The trade still continues its crv
mat prohibition interferes with ner-
sonar liberty. and creates hvpocrisv =
she SAID. but people capablc of rea
s"hihg, know that this accusation
wonh' apply with equal logic to all
laws enacted to prevent crime. one of
'he latest charges against prohibition
Is that it is a drawback to education
ana religion. This is in strong contra Ct
to the fact that Maine which has moro
teachers in proportion to the ponula :
t'on IMAM the near license state az
massachusetts,. and at the meeting of
the American Association for the Ad-
Nantement of Science. held a few
| months ago. it was reported in the
session Of education that larger
| number Of pupils are graduated from,
tie elementary schools in Maine than
from any other New England state.
ard certainly it is mark of religious
| observance that Maine leads all the
other states in the use of the Bible in
| the public schools.
Tile issue in the late gubernatorial
campaign in Maine was not prohibit
ton. The high cost of living. combin-
ed with insurgent and tariff ideas
such as are prevailing in many other
states resulted in a change of officials
which will make it harder than ever
Tor the temperance people in Maine to
withstand the attacks of the ener,fes
of prohibition within and especially
from without the State. We have rea
son to believe that the Maine voters
should resubmission be thrust upon
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