Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-07-27
STATEWIDE PROHIBITION.
Should the Principle of CURLING the Saloon
In Maine Be Rejected or Retained9
-Maine Mems Opinions.

, shop stuck on the corner of every little
| town they can have it without strue-
gle: but if they do not want these rum
| dives they have got to struggle, and that
: right hard-E. l.. Lowell, Editor of Mars
, Hill View. July ID, 1911.
We certainly have the best manage
ment of the rum question of any state in
| New England ! say this with all hon
esty, having travelled over New England
for nearly 20 years.-W, T. Daggett, Com
mercial Traveller. Waterviile, July 20,
1911
| The principle of statewide prohibition
| should be retained and / shall vote Tor
/ the same at the coming election, ana
am heartily i'm favor of it's enforcement
| John b. Rafter Sheriff of Lincoln
County, Damariscotta, July To- 1911.
| trust the campaign now being made
will awaken public sentiment to that eN-
tent that the amendment will be retained
/ and after its retention the prohibitory
| laws of our State more Thoroughly en-
| forced.-C n. Blanchard, County AT
torney. Franklin County, Wilton. July
/ II, 1911.
am in for prohibition, as ii Is being
enforced at the present time in Eastport
| by deputy sheriff. Clarence Dow. we
haven't had anything like it for 30 years.
1t is a great help to me in my business -
| Andrew Clark, Sardines and canned
goods PASSPORT. July 81 1911.
| stand for the retention of constitu-
tional prohibition in Maine. basing this
position besides other considerations on
| wide observation of local option results
in other states, contrasted with the situa-
ton in all aspects in the State of Maine.
Nv. A. Bowen, Field Secretary Y. NJ. c.
A., Waterville. July II, 1911
In regard TO temperance / know it is
200 per cent better since prohibition has
been in this State. some people say
there is Just as much liquor sold now as
before we had prohibition. That is not
the truth but far from it.-Greenleaf
Lawrence. Lumber Gardiner. July H.
1911.
| I helieve that il is for the best interest
of our State that the prohibitory amend
ment be retained in the constitution
lam opuosed to the licensed saloon which
wonld be a menace to our young man
hood also to labor and capital.-T. f..
Libby. wholesale fish, Vinalhaven, July
"a, 1871.
| VIDE
he retained as we value the life and
rights of our children GOD demands
that the curse of license shall not be
placed upon the State OF Maihe--Lyaia
Ward Rice, General Secretary OF the
York County Children's Aid Society,
Saco. July 10, 1911.
Statewide prohibition is step toward
worldwide abolition. which cannot be
! safely retraced. Those interested IN
regulation of the traffic may vote as they
, like. Being an alcohol abolitionist am
bound 10 vote for the amendment.-Hen-
| ~ n Bates, Order of Railroad Teie-
graphers, Gardiner. July IS, 1911.
1t is easier to get liquor from Lewiston
to Greene than from Boston. 1t is harder
to enforce the law in dry town, whfn
the defiant liquor seller can stand on the
other side of an imaginary line and
thumb his nose at Greenes ofheiais' az
the same time he is waving bottle OF
LIQUOR and reckoning Greene's boys to
, come over and have a Embellishments
: Journal Augusta, July 70. 1911
A II is the hope and aim Of this news
2 paper to so present the facts, in this
, great moral question that every voter III
this section of the State will go TO the
I polls on September H. and vote 10 retain
p the prohibitory amendment in the con-
stitution and thus aid In swelling the
vote which will decide for many years &c
come the question of disturbing Maine
liquor law-Madison Bulletin, July I"
| 1911
q Neal Dow once said to me, isn't II
f something to have driven rumselline into
: rat holes and cellars. and to have MADE
!. it forever despicable, so that no sell
). respecting citizens or respectable man Is
willing to be seen seeking 1t in MaineF
Keep it So Save the good name oil oui
commonwealth. -Leavitt II. Hallock, ID
, | D., Pastor of Pine st. Congregations
Church, Lewiston. May IL, 1911
n There is no doubt that II the press
| voices the sentiment of the people thai
prohibition will be retained by large
majority. There is no argument ethei
from moral or economic STANDPOINT tha'
l can stand against it. The hypocrisy OF
5 it's defenders has been its worst enemy
9 the Republican party, and now the Demo
n Gratis are as bad-A. II. Brown Edltor
> Old Town Enterprise, Old Town, July ~
1911.
4 Compiled by H. IN. Pringle.)