Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1911-06-28

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! wish 70 write little ON the on.
to Be vsssd ON ct the special mes,,n
the voters Sept. II next. The i..us %
day 10 non political; it is simpIv zoe
tion between right and wrong. ~. s
lection Of our homes, our bows 49, pro
that IL good. moral and decent. ~
An effort Ii being made to take ,ro,. ).
constitution Of our dear old p;ns ~ Ae
state the prohibitory amendment !, re
gard to the manufacture and sale :, =
toxicating liquors a. q beverage ~
everything possible will be done 10 -. ~
the vote.
The license law has been already -
proposed BY our last Legislature 10 i;csns.
any man who 20 desires to mix and ~,
Intoxicating drinks. lwill say right h..
that NO man has any right to make a y"
that might BE- the means Of CAUSING 20.
boy or miner to commit murder. W.
know that fully 20 Per cent. of the NM
ders committed are caused directly a, !,
directly BY intoxicating drink. and !,
seems that no man can uphold the s.ls !,
liquor % beverage without, in some A.
gree, upholding murder.
|. The way saioon-keepers take to Great.
in boys and young men an appe,i,, Il.
strong drink 10 enough to disgust .nr
man OF principle. They commence \,
putting few drops OF liquor in wha, thew
call Temperance drinks. hope no bov
will be persuaded to take any of their N.
stun, such a. soda water, ginger ale. etc.
These drinks were appropriately called nv
Caleb Warren, Of Denmark, In the legi,.
laturc Of 1877, the ''devil's kindlIne.
wood. We never see boy go into =.
loon at first and ask for rum. gin n,
whiskey; II Is . bottle OF soda water q,
ginger ale, which most of our newspaper
men call Temperance beverages.
There has been much criticism abou,
the Stureis law. 1t has been called bv
some the wickedest law ever enacted.
Why was 1t necessary to have III simply
because those in oflice would not en,orcs
the law; they took the oath and then
eyaded the law BY perjury, to please the
party eiecting them. What chance the
democrats had last fall to make Tor them.
selves . name II they had only upheld
what they all knew to be right, instead Of
what everybody knows to be wrong.
Isincersly hope that there will be hon
est, GQd-loving people enough to retain
the proA ibitory amendment In the cons.i.
tuition Oh our State, and l wish to have the
question Np such form that every voter
will underStand fully what they are TO
vote for. Hut the saloon keepers ard
brewers will 0Rdsavos to carry this point,
II money and 4 pud can possibly do 1t,
In Old Town, hen . seizure was sbou,
to be made by I en in the fuifllment Of
thar duty, thers@came the war-whoop
which appeared to have been installed
into the school chiii3ssn: "Look oui for
Read. And thirteen hundred responded
to the call with every 1onceivable weapon
they could reach - thirteen hundred
against two or three iuen trying to per-
form their duty to their State, their homes
and their families. THIN II was stated
that the Sturgis Deputies caused a riot.
My opinion Is that the thirteen hundred
people and those who enlcoNaged them
were Just as much insurrkctos SIS those
down in Mexico.
urge every father and mother TO use
their every influence that The prohibi-
tory amendment be retained lin the state
constitution. Why should Any wish 10
have it stricken oats II certainly ain do
no harm to remain there.
remember Mr.. Meader, weo used TO
go about selling saive. He was, asked BY
an elderly lady II the salYe wax good to
take inwardiy. He replied, ''you can take
IL, and II it don't do any good ii syontdo
any HARM" Just 20 with the proshioisory
amendment; leave II where II Is, II surely
will do no harm, II IL does no good,
II seems = wrong thing to rnaIss Avs
wholly 10 favor the brewers and faioon-
keepers, for they rob the people on thsf
money, destroy lives, and then turn then
ms lesty- without monsv nr friends Ecept
some tc,or heart broken mother There
are many such mothers.
ask all fathers and mother ~
every influence possible for gt lw q.
US not be towards, but work for ord
and leave the event with our ~
Father, who doeth all things ",
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