Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-09-08
Temperance Address by
Ex-Goy. Glenn, N. Carolina,
Big Crowd. in The Coliseum In
dOrSes His FeEvid Words.
Sunday Gunners at Horseshoe Pond
To BE Investigated.

Prohibition was given the biggest
boost here Thursday evening of the
campaign, when Ex- Governor Robert
i. Glenn of North Carolina gave an
address on the subject in the Coliseum,
which was crowded He held the au-
dience spellbound for more than an
hour and a quarter and at times was
obliged to cease speaking, the applause
was SO deafening. The Gardiner Band
Of IL pieces paraded the streets with
torch lights. Governor Glenn is the
man who made his state prosperous
by keeping prohibition in the constitu-
ton, and forcing the municipal officers
to enforce the law He said
we all belong to the same great ma
ton, and we should not only be friends
but brothers and sisters He said that
North Carolina was the equal of any
state in America. and that he could
point to prohibition as the rise of the
state. The curse had been driven out
of North Carolina. and he could not
bring himself to believe that the peo-
pie of grand old Maine, would let it
come back into this state.
The men on the side OF licenses are
the saloon keepers, the brewers, the
distillers, the proprietors of gambling
I,hells. the drunkards and all men who
are not decent, while on the side of
. prohibition are the church men, the
| ministers. The true men and three
quarters Of the women of Maine and
the boys and girls. on the side of Ii
cense floats The black flag Of death.
While on the side of prohibition floats
the white flag. II the sale of rum in
q community makes better citizens,
better men and women and better
hildren. Ii II improves the commune
y to any extent at all. then the voters
# Maine SHOULD vote Yes Ii the
sale of rum is not a good thing. and
suppose that It brings all kinds of
wills, leads wayward boys astray. and
wives. and puts children in jail. and
eads them down into the very depths
+ hell. suppose that IL does all of
hese things, then let us keep this
1onster out OF the State of Maine
The speaker compared the prosperity
f Maine and Kansas with other states
nd said that they lead with the great
st per capita deposits in the banks.
ie spoke of the Old argument that the
Nv does not prohibit, and said that he
Boston in one day than lie ever
lw in this State in 10 days. Even
1ough the law does not prohibit any
ore thar : The law against other
Zines, yet like those other laws, it
pes certainly lessen the evil He
zen gave thfs hearers some good adj
&c as to The enforcement of the law.
aid he:
s.fN-
ne. but Instead give the law breakers
il sentences the same as We do in North
Arolina. There a man for the first con-
elton gets six months in jail; for the
eond offence he gets two years and we
ace the stripes on him and let him
eak rocks on. the highways. Make your
VS. nothing else but Imprisonment
n result to the breakers of it. Enforce
ur law withfa jail sentence and it viii
better observed,
lie told of his experience in the state of
Nv Jersey during the campaign there.
d said that while the priests, minis
and the wives and mothers We're ask
for prohibition there. 597 brewers and
|tillers were asking the Legislature to
fp license. He asked them to come
ward and swear upon the Bible that
the best of their knowledge their bus.
ss was a blessing to the nation and
one Of them would do so. II the
ewers and bartenders would not say
II their business is an aid to the coun-
how can the voters vote to keep
IN an infamy in the State? The gilt
ing saloons attract the boys and girls,
/ the man who votes for license is
lty of murder in one sense of the
I'd. Maine has less crime and poverty
n any state in the union.
ev. John Evans in few wel-chosen
rds introduced Governor Glenn to the
zens. Others on the platform with
pm were Rev. NJ. C. Miner and Rev. J.
bgdon Quimby. At the end of the adj
SIS he. called upon the entire audience
DIN with him in singing "My Country
of Thee" The applause during the
ming was deafening at intervals. show
that the speaker was highly appre-
ed 1 ~