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Daily Kennebec journal., 1911-08-17
VISIT EVERY VOTER In TOWN.
How No-License Committee in One lown
Has Worked-.-W. c. /. y.
in Another Town.

correspondent who known in every town Ill the state
OF Maine sends It's copy of pledge which has been erc-
lated in his with marked Out OF total voting
list OF go have signed the pledge to vote for constitutional
prohibition canvass been made of every home and OF
every voter in the town The No License committee knows
where find every of them election day Every man
who has signed the pledge agrees be present barring I'M
foreseen accidents and vote No Sept We offer
copy OF the pledge suggestion TO other towns hoping that
4, good work NAV be done elsewhere. 1t follows
Citizen Voter
Do YOU take prohibition out of the constitution ot
Maine and thereby open up the way for license OF the rum
traffic in State?
Maine with constitutional prohibition has sobriety and
less ntemperance than any other state License increases
drunkenness crmnality and poverty Cold Facts prove it
Prohibition the constitution hurts but the lquor
dealer 1t deprives no OF his liberties but gives pro-
lection to BUSINESS MORALS and HOME.
Maine has 23,I25 boys and girls in her public common
schools and young and in her Free
High Schools and expends for their education S2547493.
There is practically llicracy in Maine. Give
schools for Maine but absolutely saloons
Voter, YOU face face with clear moral ssue. The
Legislature has legal right TO egslae all questions of
morals os the good Prohibition in the constitution
moral safeguard Don't this bulwark OF safety
MORALS EXALTETH a NATION License of evil
debases people We, the Undersigned shall vote keep
prohibition in the Constitution and help preserve the CLIO
RIOUS TRADITIONS. ACHIEVEMENTS AND CHAR
ACTER OF a State honored home and abroad
Name. Name.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1911-08-17
The Grass World.

Oh. life is rife in the heart OF the year
When midsummer suns sail hiGn
And under the shadows Oh spihe anu
In the depth of the daisy SKY o,,ss
There's a life unknown to the caieie'e
And Under the stiffness as airy prahce'
And slender iointed things astlr, ,t
And eossamer wings IN a sunny ~
And a world of work and dahce'
Soft in IT'S throbbing, the conscious green
Demurely answers the breeze, ,,,,o,
x,I,;i, dou:n in its tangle, in riotous sheeh'
The honners are bending thelr knees'
And only p beetle or numbering am,
e he n1,shes a feathery spray asldhHHs5 ahH,5
r., ne tbe sudden dip of a foragine piau, ia.o.
Vim its vibrant trail of the cioseF
piscovers the secret haunt
An. the grass-world dies in the autumn
when studded with sheat ana, ana sbaon' haya
Tba f;eids lie browning IN sullen h"N''
And creak in the farmer ,i,a' tLaeh au
tInshad is the tumult the dalSles nnc''
Tha hidden sport of the supPIe ton Of
AZ And lonely and dazed IN the sia'e u
Tbe stiff -kneed hoppers refuse ~ ~ pay
In the stubble that mocks '.ie oiIn w. i,
For ali things feel that 'ne ''''o 70
when areIi life runs low in the heart OF the
Mare year Mapes Dodge, in Kansas City
Journal.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1911-08-17
A Strong Endorsement.

Editor kennebec journal:
1t was suggested at meeting of the
officers and executive committee of
the kennehec County Sunday School
Association Aug. 10 at North Vassal-
bore, that the resolutions relating ta
the rrohibitory amendment, passed at
the annual meeting of the association
at Gardiner, May ?, 1911. be sent in
fun for publication to the Kennebec
Journal letter box. AT that time the
Journal published a report of the con-
Venticn and a summary of resolutions
The resolution was Unanimously adopt
ed and is as follows:
Gardiner, May 2. 1911.
Resolved. That as a convention we
reaffirm our belief in prohibitoty leg
islatior and pledge ourselves to use all
legitimate means at our disposal for
its retention.
II. L. NICHOLS, Hallowell.
A. L, LANE. East Winthrop.
r. NJ JOSCELYN. Gardiner.
Committee on Resolutions.
OLIVE a. GOULD. Albion,
Secretary Kennebee Sunday School
Association.
Albion. Me. Aug. 16. 1911.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1911-08-17

prefers town option. Why not go n
step farther, Mr.. Governor, and make
it individual option?
On all other laws there is no ques-
tioning of the majority rule. We send
men to the Legislature to make the
laws for the State. Why is this one
singled out as too unwieldy" for
wider than town handling? Can the
average voter not guess, that it is be-
cause a great combination of CONNER
cial interests is increasingly laborins
to undermine the Maine law. BE-
CAUSE IT INTERPRETERS WITH
THEIR BUSINESS?
Why does Governor Plaisted advise
local option?" because the Rum
Trust is stalking him and his party so
win. FOR IT'S dhe Rum Trusts
BENEFIT.
1t was the let's-try something new
spirit of gambling that elected Gov
ernor Plaisted and he undoubtedly
hopes to win for the Rum Trust ia
the same way.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1911-08-17
You Must Bear Your Part.

Enjoy lifes morning while tis bright.
The passing zephyrS WOO.
And let the golden stars of night
Wake every joy in you
In youth your merry carols sing.
With gladness fill the heart;
The rolling years their cares will bring
And you must bear your part.
Unto your blessings. one and ALL
That heaven to you may send,
whether they may be large or small,
A welcome warm extend.
And yet the fateS have so decreed,
What'er may be your prayer.
No one from care is wholly freed,
And you must bear your share.
Fortune may set her gilded seal
Upon our aims and ends
And time to us may clear reveal
True friendships and true friends,
But oft beneath the veil outside
There is the inward smart;
For Joy and care our lives DIVIDE
And we must bear our part.
Ofttimes we fancy some there are
Unlike to all the rest.
Who ne'er have aught to fret or mar
The quiet of the breast
But never yet was mortal man
Who knew not grief or care,
For, tbs a part of Natures plan,
SO bravely bear your share
Thomas F. Porter, in Kansas Ci.'
3 journal. rq
Daily Kennebec journal., 1911-08-17
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.
IN. Y. Press.l


Bread and butter is the essence OF
all human policies.
Married couples stick to each other
mostly because it's the law.
+. After man has learned to sail a
boat he has learned what is still moro
important-never to be smart aleck
about 1t.
1t seems as if the more elinging a
woman is by nature the more her hus-
band clings on her when he is in trou-
BILE.
When a girl can half love three or
four men at once, somebody else is 60
ing to come along and marry her.
The more chances come to a man
to get rich, the surer he is not to be
ready to seize them.
When a girl has on her prettiest
sailor hat it's a sign she hasn't been,
and isn't going, sailing -
Daily Kennebec journal., 1911-08-17
THE WOMEN CAN'T VOTE.
But One Good, Brave Woman Can
Garry More Than One Vote.

In response to an inquiry the Ken
nebec Journal has received the fol-
lowing letter from a member of the
W. c. T. T., in town of about 3000
inhabitants. This woman,s report of
what they are doing in the way of re-
affirming and reestablishing the law, is
encouraging, at the same time contain
ing valuable hints for others who may
wish to do something in support of the
law and in defiance of the liquor iu-
terest. She writes
Il thank you for the suggestions to
our w. G. 7. U. We are doing private
work among our young men. | shall
see Mrs. Stevens, Wednesday, at Fox
croft Campground and will try to get
an opportunity to speak to her about
this. The other suggestion is being
carried out, / think very successfully.
The plan to reach the individual voters
in the rural district was lined out at
our last convention, namely, if resub
mission should carry, every local union
should hold rallies in every rural
scheolhouse in town, singing our cam
paien songs, giving recitations special
ly prepared. etc. This is, think be-
ing carried out. 1t is in this section,
at least | have held, and shall con-
time to hold until each district except
one (Which is already pledged to a
man for a No vote) such meetings.
Our local pastors go with us and
speak. l know of some conversions,
and I hear that we have aroused the
apathetic.
Mr. - is chairman of the No
License Committee, and they are maxi
ing a personal canvass He has all this
section of the village, and so far as
he has canvassed. has 49 signers to the
No pledge. Except two or three
Frenchmen who are undecided, and
four Americans (some of these Will
vote MOI none have refused. o.
D--has canvassed the rural dis
trict of half the town. He has nearly
100 signers. only five having refused,
and two of these will vote No.
Several men will use their autos to
get every voter to the polls One
| woman will pay for the use of an auto
| for one day. We are to have Prof.
Nichols for a street address Hobson
| is to come here in September, and
| Rutledge next week. Besides these
orators, we will have Mrs. Tillinghast
Daily Kennebec journal., 1911-08-17
Old Fashioned Flowers.

Where are the dear old fashioned posies
Quaint in form and bright In hue,
Such as grandma gave her lovers
When she walked the garden through?
Lavendar with spikes of azure
Pointing to the dome on high,
Telling thus whence came It's color.
Thanking with its breath the sky.
Four O'Clock with heart unfolding.
When the loving sun had gone,
Streak and stain of cunning crimson,
Like the light of early dawn.
Regal lilies. many-petaled,
Like the curling drifts OF snow.
With their crown of golden anthers
Poised on malachite below.
Morning glories, tents of purple,
Stretched on bars of creamy white.
Folding up their satin curtains
Inward through the dewy night.
Marigold with coat of velvet,
Streaked with gold and yellow lace.
With its love for summer sunlight
Written on its honest face.
Dainty pink. with feathered petals.
Tinted. chrled. and deeply frayed.
With its calyx heart. half broken.
on its leaves uplifted laid
Can't you see them in the garden,
Where dear grandma takes her nap2
See cherry blooms shake softly over
Silver hair and snowy cap?
VIII the modern florists triumph
Look so fair, or smell so sweet.
AS those dear. old-fashioned posies
Blooming round our grandma feet!
Ethel Lynn Beers In Manchester Union
Daily Kennebec journal., 1911-08-17
AMajority Vote Wins.

Editor Kennebec Journal:
Will you please tell us whether or
not it requires a two-thirds vote to
change the constitution? In a store
eonfab l happened to make the state
nent that the rum element stands
as good show as we do" 1t was inn
mediately disputed by half a dozen of
those present. They claimed that the
liquor interests must secure two
thirds of the vote cast in order to re-
peal the law. We finally agreed to
leave 1t to the kennebec Journal
J. C. II.
Dexter. Me. Aug. 10
You were right. 1t has just come
to light that the rum press is encour-
aging the erroneous impression that
il requires two-thirds vote of the
people TO bring about their desire.
1t is presumed that their purpose is
to lull the general public into feel
ing of security, SO that voters will re.
main at home.
II the voters are satisfied that the
license faction cannot possibly secure
a two-thirds vote and remain at home.
they will make the mistake of their
lives. A majority of one will remove
the amendment from the constitution
and the Rum Trust will have won its
fondest hope.
If the liquor interests win it will be
because of apathy, and the man who
stays at home will be guilty.
Be sure that you VOTE, and en-
courage all your neighbors to do the
same. We do not fear the verdict of
all the people of Maine, but we do
fear the rum crowd when good men
stay at home
Daily Kennebec journal., 1911-08-17
Truth Is Stranger than Fiction.
(Richmond Times-Dispatch.)

tRlchmond fmeS-DiSpatcn.)
The following unusual answers were
lately given at an examination for
teachers in New York for the purpose
of testing the general knowledge of
the applicants:
Who built the ark? Theodore
Shonts.
Who interpreted Pharoah's dream
Eusapia Palladino
Who received the ten command
ments? j. +. Morgan.
Who let the Israelites into the
Promised Land? Senator Guggen-
helm.
Who slew the prophets of Baal?
Lyman Abbott.
Who preached in Athens the un-
known God? Charley Murphy.
Who wrote the Book of Revela-
ton? Thomas w. Lawson,
Who raised the siege of Orleans
Andrew Jackson
Presumably, some one of these, il
asked who was the hero of the lions
den. would have answered 1.-The Colo
nel."
Daily Kennebec journal., 1911-08-17
Maine Gossip
DO Not Vote Repeai.'

IN me gentle mild September,
Nhen the leaves are on the tree.
ana the green is turning purple,
by the tloSts that Ou them steal,
When the Wine cups charming beauty,
Ana the vote to make ii free,
rem restrictions OF prohibition.
Do not vote with them repeal.
For its Just little later,
When the frost and wind shall take,
Those fair leaves. with all their beauty,
BY the blight, which they conceal:
Like the glitter of the Wine cup,
TO the thousands who partake,
OF its freedom, which is slavery
II you vote with them repeal"
Listen, hear them, children. calling.
Pleading loud their souls to save,
While their fathers, many of them,
Vote to send their souls to hell;
BY the freedom they thus purchase,
Which is freedom of the grave,
And the same you do September,
If you vote with them repeal"
M. q. 7. in Rockland Courier Gazette.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1911-08-17

and Miss Rowan. Our union has dis
leaflets, in town meeting and i'll the
homes, oranges. etc.
We shall win if every one who is
for the law goes to the polls. One more
vote in each town in Texas would
have gained the victory. We MUST
look out for the individual vote.
agree with you fully regarding the two
sources of danger.
C. B. a.
We believe that the work described
in this central Maine town could be
followed by other towns and cities
with good effect. The women cannot
vote. we are taunted by the Democrat
organs, out they can at least have a
great influence on the voters in their
immediate vicinity. One woman of
good character and the courage of her
convictions is equal to more than
one voter when the vote is to be taken
on a great moral question. We are told
gans that it is not the women of
Maine who make the laws, but that
one of the factors which has much to
do with our lawmaking body is that
element of newly enfranchised foreign
ers whose votes count and count for
such customs as those to which they
have been accustomed in their mother
country.
The women of Maine cannot vote,
but they can become active, as they
have done in the town reported above,
and exert powerful influence on their
fathers, husbands and sons, and, if
they feel confident in the future and
in the strength and character of the
male members of their own families,
let them go further and interest them
selves in the affairs of families not so
firmly entrenched in morals and in re-
gard of law. Let them interest them
selves in their neighbors' boys as well
as their own. Let them point out the
fallacy of the doctrine by which po-
litica' clique is trying to inflict upon
the people of Maine a law which is
coming dollars for out-of-Statc inter
ests at the expense of Maine homes
and morals
Daily Kennebec journal., 1911-08-17
A Rose Petal for You.

We live in deeds, not years; i'll thoughts
not breaths;
IN feelings, not in figures on diai
We should count time by heart throoS'
He most lives
Who thinks most, feels the noDiest, acts
the best
And he whose heart beats quickest h'eS
the longest.
Lives in one hour more than in years 90
some, .
Whose fat blood sleeps as IL shps aiohs
their veins.
Life's but a means unto an end that enu
Beginning mean, and end to all things
God -,
The dead have all the glory of the world.
Phillip James Bailey.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1911-08-17
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.
IN. Y. Press.)

IN. Y. Press)
our pleasures come IN laiiit ou'iih7'
our pains in solid chunks.
In some businesses cold nerve seems
more useful than sound brains.
The summer girl tries the sun on
her complexion; the winter girl the
rouge pot.
The dickens with a man who has q
pedigree is he never seems to have
anything else.
It's easy for any girl to get married;
the hard thing is for her. to get hap
'piness out of it.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1911-08-17
Governor PIaisted's Interview.

The greatest difficulty Maine has
met in the enforcement of her prohib-
itory law has been. not the feeble few
Illicit dealers in intoxicants, but the
unceasing abuse of the law, for poll
teal purpose, by men of prominence
When the Governor of state stoops
to boyish twaddle in opposition to its
laws. many young men must be ex-
pected to accept his doctrine because
II serves as an excuse to crafty their
natural desires.
The example of great men in def
ance of law is the one bar to the mil
lennium.
knows of the fiagrant violation of the
gambling law, at Capitol Park last
week; yet we do not hear him advo-
eating town right to license such
crimes.
The prohibitory law was no more
openly violated at Hanks Fair than
were the laws against gambling,
swindling and lewd and obscene per-
formances. Why does not our Gov
ernor advise his followers to license
all these crimes?
Governor Plaisted. in an interview
for a Hearst yellow journal, refers to
the Maine law as the great joke of
prohibition" 1t Is joke to those
who teach disrespect for law
We wonder if Governor Plaisted
considers the law against such a
scene as nude woman dancing on d
mirror. a joke. When he is advising
young men to vote against prohibition
would he advise them to patronize
Hanks Fair" hell-holes?
The law has not prohibited such
scenes UNDER A DEMOCRATIC
ADMINISTRATIONS, CITY, COUNTY
: AND STATE; the law must be a
Joke" Why not repeal such a
Joke" MT Governor.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1911-08-17

tc overwhelmingly reaffirm the posi-
ton OF Maine against license. Then.
and then only, will the Liquor Trust
and its Democratic allies let the sub
iect drop.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1911-08-17
Editor S Letter Box

The publication of letter i'm
this department is not To be taken
as an endorsement of its views by
the kennebec journal. This col
umn is maintained for the discus
sion of matters of general public
interest when kept within bounds
of reason and not of u libelous or
abusive nature.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1911-08-17
Thursday, August II, 1911.

Were men to keep Christs COM
mandmenf tf love, there's hardly
any form es l.hman misery that
would not be ended in two genera
tions. Ian Maclaren.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1911-08-17

One of the most common ailments that
hard working people are afflicted with is
lame back Apply Chamberlain's Lini-
thoroughly at each application, and you
dealers.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1911-08-17

The prohibition law was put in the
constitution for the sole purpose of dis
posing. once and for all. this eternal
liquor problem Governor Plaisted
and his associates have seen fit to
drag it out as political issue ana are,
jointly and severally, attempting to
mislead the public into establishing d
Rum Trust approved law; to increase
the liquor traffic, and to turn over
to out-of- State interests dollars that
are now going into the banks, into bet
ter homes and into food. clothing and
education for children.
Governor Plaisted foresees new
era. Please God it may not be such
an era as we have been given a sam
plea Democratic officially approved
and protected Hanks Fair era.
| Governor Plaisted deals in the same
misleading manner with the issue as
do the Rum Trust organs. He talks
suavely of this question having to be
| voted on again. that the referendum
will record the peoples verdict.
The people have already recorded
their verdict, it is the Rum Trust that
now has the laboring oar; why should
we give them the advantage they
ask?
The Governor speaks Of Maine being
ridiculed because of her law 1t is
true! Maine has been ridiculed by the
rummies the world over. 1t has been
ieered at by men who make mock
of holy things 1t has been sneered al
by men who pose as having accom-.
plished something, and who lead young
men wrong by their example 1t has
been derided by men who pat boys
on the back and say: Look on me
drink when 1 want to, and you know
what / have donens 1t has beer
maligned by men who invite youn,
men into social rum clubs and star
them on the road to ruin.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1911-08-17

Governor Plaisted tells Hearst
yellow journal ESQ the paper declares,
and we have seen no deniaD that the
Young men of the State want to get
rid of this eternal liquor problem that
is thrust upon them and is not
obeyed."
And so the Governor goes on to ad-
wise just the-course that would make
it an eternal liquor problem" Is 1t
possible that tic Governor hopes to
deIude large number of intelligent
young men into the belief that if
they enact a liquor trust law for his
party, that the question will be set
tied for all time? The Governor well
understands that town and city op-
ton plan is the only system that
keeps the liquor problem eternal
Under a town option plan every
year brings its battle for wet" against
dry" The liquor problem pot is boil
ing all the year round, and part OF
the dollars which the Rum Trust takes
from your unfortunate sons will be
turned back to buy the votes of thugs
and newly enfranchised foreigners.
That Is the kind of law Governor
Plaisted advocates as method OF do
ing away with "the eternal liquor
problem"
Daily Kennebec journal., 1911-08-17

The culture of goldfish has been a
fiourishing industry of China for hun
dreds of years
Daily Kennebec journal., 1911-08-17

Tile Maine fairs are now under way
and three or four of them will be in
progress each week from now until
the second week in October.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1911-08-17

But Governor Plaisted knows that
while he and his associates have scof-
fed at the law, have derided and
jeered at it; ridiculcd and abused it.
the THINKING people of the world
have admired and praised it; have
bowed in respect and honor before the
people of Maine for having placed ii
in the Constitution
Governor Plaisted knows that nine
tenths of the worlds great leaders
of progress and thought have cheered
the Pine Tree State on, as leading the
world in the work of downing the
greatest evil on earth
Names prohibition law HAS been
ridiculed but we believe the people of
Maine are proud of the enemies this
law has made!
The Governors alleged interview
closes:
MAINE is seeing her opportunity. and
she is going to seize 1t. With the liquor
question off their hands, the people of
Maine will be able to turn their attention
to other things, and Maine will take the
place she should have in the commercial
world"
We sincerely hope Maine is seeing
her opportunity, and that she will put
the liquor question 'off her hands"
AS there is only one way to silence
the Rum Trust clamor for new era,'
we hope the Governor is right
The oniys way to put the, eternal
| liquor problem" off Names hands is