Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-08-16

we never could see any loSicdi Ted-
sons why the amendment should not
be resubmitted, and now we can see
no reason why the amendment should
not be permitted to remain there. II
for no other reason, because OF the
moral support it gives cause of 50
much Importance to the social. finan-
cial. moral and civic life of our COM
munity.-E. p. Mayo. Editor Turf,
Farm and Home, Fairfield. July Is.
1911.
| propose to vote to retain the con-
stitutional amendment prohibiting the
manufacture and sale of intoxicating
liquors; first, because | believe that a
prohibitive law is better than a license
law to suppress the sale of intoxieat-
ing liquors; and second, because | be-
lieve that the repeal of this eonstitu-
tional amendment at this time would
have an unfavorable influence on the
increasing successful efforts in this
country and abroad against the use
and sale of intoxicating liquors.-F NJ.
Drew, Lawyer, Lewiston. July IS,
1911.
/ will briefly refer to my experiences
under prohibition while managing the
Cliff House and Colonial Hotel of this
city for several years. When / was
building the Cliff House, parties came
to me and said that summer guests
would not patronize a hotel that did
not sell liquor in some way, and that
no hotel could hold its guests if run on
temperance principles. The hotel was
opened and Immediately filled with
guests and has always been filled each
season that l managed it.-C. B. Dali
ton, Mgr Munjoy Gravel Co, Port
land, July II. 1911.
Maine has led in the effort To pro-
mott the sale of intoXicants for many
Years ana has had constitutional pro-
hibition since 1884. A repeal of that
provision in our constitution would be
considered throughout our whole coQn-
Try Us receding from the leading posi-
tioh We have held as a temperance
STATE Tor so many years. If for no
other and more important reasol.
Names repeal of this constitutional
amendment l believe would be a great
blow TO the cause of temperance
Parker Spofford. Civil Engineer.
Bucksport, July is. 1911.
The trouble has been not with the
pfohihitery law but with its enforce
ment officials, men whose business
and professional regulations have been
high, have in many cases. been guilty
OF deliberate malfeasance in Office to
such an extent that had proper evil
dence of their misconduct been placed
before jury and a court. and each
done its duty, they would have been
confined for long terms in prison. and
be forever disqualified to hold public
office, trust or appointment under the
State.-Ralph E. Crockett, former
county attorney. Lewiston, July 10.
1911
| am a firm believer in the prohibi-
tory law, and believe il is for the best
interest of the State of Maine that il
be retained. Having lived for the past
ID years in locality where the law
has been nullified to a great extent
and comparing this experience with
living in states where they had the H.
censed saloon and having had ex-
pecience in employing labor under both
systems, ] am strongly in favor of
the prohibitory law both from a bust
ness and social stand point.-F. W
Phelps Supt. Old Town Wooden Co,
old Town, July 10, 1911.
believe that the prohibition amend
ment should be retained in the consti-
tuition. do not believe that anything
should be done which would convert
our legislature each year into a beer
garden in saloon fight. The liquor
business is not now respectable by any
stretch of the imagination but if pro
tected by law it would become so in
the minds of many. II we must have
saloons let them be hidden and to be
found only by the initiated. Prohbi-
tion unenforced is bad enough, bur
the best license is worse.-H. T. Cool
idge. Trial Justice Lisbon Falls July
IS, 1911.
After investigating the matter-pro-
hihition versus high license-I don't
see how / could consistently vote any
other way than for the former. 1t is
true that prohibition does not wholly
prohibit (beeause of the large profits
made by the liquor dealer, he will
break that or any other law, but pro-
hibition at its worst, / believe, is bet
ter than high license. Furthermore, I
would not care to feel that by my vote
! helped to make the traffic legal.
have seen too much of the awful re-
suits that have come to those who
have been addicted to the use of Ii
ouor-A. B. Taylor, Banker. Bangor,
July 8, 1911.
In my opinion statewide prohibition
should be retained because, ID of the
degrading influence of the open saloon
ON the youth of our State. and moral
influence of even poorly enforced pro-
hibition which is far better than Ii
cense; (2) licensing an evil is utterly
wrong in principle; go it would be a
long step backward in the march OF
civilization for Maine, which has al
ways been at the front in this and
other great moral questions, to aban-
don her stand on prohibition, and fall
back into line with other license
states.-C. II. Sturtevant, Banker,
Liverrnore Falls, July 6, 1911.
When we consider what the saloon
stands for and what it does, it's train
| of woe. of misery and degradation. 1
cannot understand how any man, or
| body of men, can vote to license 1t;
even if the revenue would pay all the
| aynepcaS of tba mon who