Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-07-26
For a Temperance Sunday"

| FoT temperance sunday
Why not2 Can any Maine pastor
| contribute more TO the sanctity of the
home than to do all in his power to
hold what ground we have gained
| against the liquor evil?
| Should 1000 Maine pastors devote one
| day-tho day preceding the vote on the
constitutional amendment-to urging
! mis- people TO work and vote against
the liquor interests. what would be the
| result?
We believe such movement would
be powerfully effective. We believe
that Temperance Sunday" Sept. 10
would be productive of vast good.
Nav we not urge such course. as
suggested by our Alfred correspond
eut, upon the ministers of Maine? And
may we not suggest that each and
every pastor impress upon his flock
the necessity of going to the polls
If the FRIENDS of prohibition remain
at home on election day the amend
ment is lost, and the liquor trust dol
lars will have won. to the everlasting
shame OF the Pine Tree State.
Let every pastor make his hearers
understand that the prayers of every
church in every civilized land will be
with the moral, progressive people of
Iot oh ~
minds with the fact that the eyes Of
the world are upon us, and that their
Christian duty on September IL is to
go to the polls and vote No"
The man who stays at home has not
the welfare of coming generations at
heart; he owes his vote to his State
his neighbors and himself.
Should 1000 ministers. their voices
reaching every corner of this great
commonwealth, appeal to the voters
and their families, we believe it would
mean thousands CT votes for the sup
port Of the temperance cause.
Disguise it as they may, the pues-
tion is one of ten perance assailed by
intemperance The Incorporate and
illiterate element of our State is fired
financed and driven on by those who
would ruin them, body and soul, as
we'll as millions of unborn, for the
dollars there are in the liquor bust
ness.
We are fighting, not the uneducated,
unfortunate. aud depraved OF our own
State but the INSCRIPTIONS. unprinci-
pied men of other states who would
exploit our souls for the sake of gold.
The deeper we bury the ambition of
these selfish interests who would buy
a political party to perfect it's scheme,
the easier it will be to overcome the
evils which follow.
After ne have won this fight, let us
| join hands and voices in an irresistible
| demand that the law be enforced by
| the officials elected or appointed to
carry out the law. Let 1t be under
| stood that no official who violates his
| oath shall be spared. Let it be un-
| derstood that, regardless of party or
| creed, he shall be denounced publicly
in press and pulpit and pursued with
out mercy until better man is in his
place
When this has been accomplished
| let us sec to it that the rum clubs go
The darkest blot on our Maine scotia
life is that of the beer clubs and run
holes supported by so-called social or
CARNATIONS When they have beer
| driven from our State. then we should
assail the position of the U. S. govern
ment.
| AS Maine has led the moral force
of the world for half century, let he
lead in forcing Uncle Sam to abondol
the rum business.
But first of all, let us overwhelm tn
forces of the liquor interests by vot
ing ono" IN Sent II rmhn