Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-06-13
DO YOU AGREE WITH THEM?
Prominent Business and Professional Men Of
Maine Make Plain Statements on
Great Public Question
PRINCIPLE STATEWIDE PROHIBITION OF THE
SALOON IN REJECTED RETAINED

the State, IL Beane. Druggist.
Gardiner. May 10, 1911.
have never changed my opinion
that the prohibitory law should be re-
tanned in Maine-John ID. Long, ex-
Secretary of the Navy. Buckfleld,
June =, 1911.
l think il much better for the people
of our State that prohibition be re-
tained in our eonstituion.-Dr X. l..
Grindle, Physician, Mt. Desert, June 8.
1911.
The prohibtory law should be re-
tanned in the constitution, because ii
is morally right The State has no
moral right to license or permit a
moral evil.-Frank w. Butler. Lawyer.
Pennington. June 5, 1911.
1t should by all means be retained
To keep up the States established
reputation as a leader in temperance.
and for its present welfare and future
prosperity.-Geo. A. Woodbury., Sc
bago Lake, June s. 1911.
The law is right. 1t should make
no compromise with so huge wrong
The trouble is not the law. That
comes in carrying out the laws man
date.-oliver G. Hail, Judge of Ken
nebec County Superior Court, Au-
gusta, April 81. 1911.
TO retain prohibition will be better
for the business interests. My bust
ness has always been better when the
prohibitory law has been more strictly
enforced.-Geo. +. Sawyer. Wholesale
& Retail Confectionery, Portland, May
30 1911.
BY all means State wide prohibi-
ton, if for no other reason than that
Maine has set a standard for the good
of the country which | think it would
be great calamity to pull down..
+. Davis. Shoe Manufacturer, Free
port. May %, 1911.
Prohibition should be retained in
Maine by all means. That the pres
ent law has not been better enforced
Is not so much the fault of the law as
the fault of the officers who are elect
ed 10 carry ii out.-Henry NJ. Jones,
Structural Steel & Iron Works, Port
land, May %, 1911.
favor retaining the prohibitory
clause in our constitution. While
| the prohibitory law will not make
1 temper dtt iIltI Oul VI utlkdTuS. Dt~
| lieVe it aids in creating a sentiment
| in favor of men being temperate in
stead of being drunkards.-A. X. But
Ter, Lawyer. Skowhegan. June 8, 1911
The principle Of State wide prohibi-
| ton is right and should therefore be
retained in our constitution. In a
| matter of right or wrong, | do not
think it safe to temporiZe-Henry f.
Merrill, Treasurer Randall & Meal
| lister Coal Company, Portland, June g.
1911.
The principle of State wide pro-
hibition of the liquor traffic in Maine
should be retained. Any other meth
Cd would largely increase the evils re-
snlting from liquor drinking-R w.
Dunn. Treasurer of Dunn Edge Tool
Company, Waterville, May "a, 1911.
l believe in State wide prohibition.
because alcohol in any form degener-
ates the family life, weakens the
| sensbility, units men for true citi-
zenship and reduces the earning and
producing capacity. w. Amick
Shoe Manufacturers, Freeport, May
29, 1911.
State wide prohibition should be
retained in Maine. Never, after
more than half century of freedom
will our people deliberately place
| themselves under the gross dominion
OF the saloon. Such thing is UNI
thinkable.-W. o. Fuller. Editor
Courier Gazette, Rockland, June 2,
1911.
l can't see even one reason why we
lei erfy l.,
and | hope we have temperance men
enough in this State to hold it.
can't think how any man can vote
against it and call himself a temper
ance mani. C. Bates, President
Paris Manufacturing Company, West
| Paris, June 9, 1911.
| In reply to your question. Should
| the principle of State wide prohibi-
ton of the saloon be rejected or re-
tanned in Maine" would say that
think it should be retained. as | think
on the whole this is the best plan for
the State.-Geo. S. Payson Banker,
Portland, May Is. 1911.
l believe the principle of State
wide prohibition of the saloon should
be retained in Maine. That Is my
| firm belief based upon many years
observation of the working of pro-
| hbition and the evils wrought by the
rum traffic.-Chas. A. Pilsbury, Editor
Republican Journal, Belfast, June s.
1871.
After careful observation of the
| liquor business in most of the large
cities of the Union, am more strong
| ly than ever of the opinion that the
principle of State wide prohibition of
the saloon should be retained in the
State of Maine.-Geo c. Weber,
Lawyer, Auburn, May 20. 1911.
In my opinion the State wide pro-
hibition of the saloon ought certainly
to be retained in Maine. Wherever
the prohibitory law has been enforced
in this State the beneficial results are
entirely apparent. Nom enforcement
OF any law will bring it into con-
tempt. Friends of prohibition should
be very much in earnest.-Hon. VIM.
p. Frye. United States Senator, Lew
iston, May 81, 1911.
Since living for about two years in
licensed states I am constrained fO