The Williamson enterprise. [volume] (Williamson, W. Va.) 1907-1911, 1911-02-23
!, w. G. r. U. COLUMN.

prize of $3.50 in gold to any
Mingo County, w. Va. or Pike
County Kentucky boy or girl,
eighteen years old or younger,
who will make the largest NUM-
| Der of words from letters in the
word, prohibition, and who will
lalso send in the best compost
| ton on some subject pertaining
| to prohibition. Subject and rules
of contest to be given in W. 9.
IN. II. column next week. For
literature on the subject call on
! Mrs. Edna B. III. Stevenson,
Press Superintendent Of Mingo
County, w. Va.
RE-SUBMssIoN IN MAINE.
| "A bill for e-submission of the
prohibitory law in Maine is be-
fore the State legislature. The
father Of the bill is the veteran
democratic Senator, Staples. In
|opening the argument in favor of
1.-THE bill Senator Staples faced not
only the joint temperance COM
mittee of the legislature but an.
intensely interested throng Of
people. White ribbons cleaned
over many hearts in the great
gathering hearts beating true
to the home interests Of the
grand old State. Following Sem
ator Staples, the first speaker in
behalf of the remonstrance was
Mrs. Lillian M. N. Stevens, who
commanded the instant and
breathless attention of the entire
audience. She was frequetly
applauded, and her address in
part follows:
] speak not for myself alone
but for the Maine Woman's
Christian Temperance Union,
which is organized in every sec
ton of our state and which rep-
resents thousands of Maine
homes.
Weare opposed to re-submis-
sion because we believe the pro-
hibitory law to be the best law
ever enacted to apply to the Ii
quor traffic. I claim that / am
qualified to testify, inasmuch as
] have in every state and in other
lands repeatedly studied the
practical effects Of all the laws
referring to the liquor traffic
high license, low license, dispen-
sary or Gothenberg and segre-
cation.
have sought to know what is
the best law to protect the home
against the drink curse, and I do
not hesitate to declare with more
emphsis than ever before that
the law which furnishes the best
protection to the home from the
homes worst enemy is state
wide prohibition.
1t is no wonder that Maine,
Kansas, North Dakota, Georgia,
Oklahoma, Alabama, Tennessee
Missouri and North Carolina
have statewide prohibition and
that 30,00O,OOO people are living
in other localities in other states
where the beverage sale of IL
quor has been outlaWed, but the
wonder is that any state or any
locality will for money consid-
Grafton, called a license fee, give
a person the legal privilege to
sell that which causes IS per
cent of the insanity, As per cent
Of the idiocy, 80 per cent of the
poverty and 90 per cent Of the
crime.
The claim that to give the peo-
pie a chance to vote on the ques-~
ton would settle ali the turmoil
and unrest attending prohibition
and re-submission is not we'll
founded. This was the hope of
the temperance people in 1884
when the law was made consti-
tutional, but we know full well
that the liquor element will not
let the question rest. They are
at work today in every prohibi-
ton state for the overthrow of
the prohibitory law regardless of
when the people voted on it, and
in some of these states they have
veted very recently.
In Maine for half hundred