The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1910-10-27

invites all sick women to write
her for advice. Her advice is free,
and always helpful.
and towns, thus removing the opportu-
nifty and temptation to drink These
statements cannot be denied, for they
have been carefully gathered from the
temperance history of the State of Maine
and | would like to ask of any candid
thinking man this question: If we are to
have resubmission and prohibition should
be replaced by license, would we not
again have the same bitter experience
in all our cities, villages and towns as
we had in the old rum days in Maine?
Oh! the shame of it, and then to think
that there are Christian and moral men
who are now crying out for resubmission
and even some of them who would favor
a license law of this awful wrong, which
led Gladstone to denounce it "as having
inflicted upon the human race greater
calamities than war, pestilence and fam
me-" A license law, high or low, is a sin
against God and man and damning blot
upon our civilization, and l emphatically
declare:
LIST. That both drunk enness and other
arrests are lower in prohibition than in
license cities.
End. License cities are compelled to
pay tax almost as high as that of the
prohibition cities, although they have
the liquor revenue in addition.
Sd. The average per 1000 deaths is
far less in prohibition cities than in IL
cense cities.
4th. A license law opens up the most
hellish business on earth and gives liquor
men the right to get rich out of the
wreckage and poverty of a people.
That man who gets up in the morning
and takes drink of rum, although drink
of water would be better, or whoever he
may be that cries down the glorious prin-
ciples of prohibition and favors the legal
lied liquor traffic, for beverage purposes,
which is the greatest and most wicked
monopoly we have in our land, is simply
pandering to the criminal and vicious
classes to set at naught the laws of our
commonwealth. So let US stand firm and
fight to the bitter end against any modi-
fication or repeal of our prohibitory law
and even against resubmission, although
| will say it is not that the temperance
people Of Maine are opposed to resub-
mission from literal sense, but we are
opposed to the motives that will be be-
hind the resubmission measure in our in
coming legislature.
Do you ask me what those motives
are? Ireply license of the liquor traffic,
which is the cause of the greater part of
our nations woe and shame. A short
time ago as l was in the Union Depot
in Portland l saw an empty whiskey
bottle in the toilet room with these words
written upon it in lead pencil and in large
letters 4 Want Resubmission. thought
how well this represented the two classes
who are demanding resubmission in Maine
today, the rum seller and rum drinker;
but there is a third class this bottle
didn't suggest and that is the politicians
of our State who are now, especially
since election, shouting louder than ever
for resubmission. They say that the dear
people must have a chance to vote upon
our liquor laws, as though politicians and
dealers cared anything about the dear
people. All the liquor men want is to
get rid of our hateful prohibitory law, if
possible, through resubmission, so they
can sell rum in Maine uninterrupted and
get rich, and all this cackle about taking
the temperance question out of politics
through resubmission is to say the least
the rankest kind of nonsense and folly.
Every man with an ounce Of common
sense should know that the story of this
great reform can never be fully written
until the Christian and moral people shall
rise up like true men and overthrow the
liquor traffic as they did the slave traffic
in our land.
"Then Truth, the Hero, armed in mail,
The hosts of Tvrants' wrong assail.