Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-02-02

| waters told his party that if they per-
| sisted in their niggardly policy IN re-
| gard to protection of Moosehcad Lake
| navigation they would he legislated out
! of power two years from now. Senator
| Boynton recognized Mr.. Hudson forth
| with. The Guilford man declared that
he was a Democrat who did not believe
in resubmission. He had fought in years
! past to keep the resubmission plank out
/ of the platform of the party. The Dem
ocratic party was not the rum party and
never had been.
| Deacon Frederick Brunei of the First
BAPTIST church of Portland. which has Il
membership OF $40, presented to the COM
mittee a protest, signed by officers aud
members of that church against making
any change in the prohibitory amend
inent.
Frederick Hmckley of Portland said
that he was a Republican and i'll favor
Of prohibitions He was Disguised at the
way men in the hall who had favored
prohibition had in some Instances spoken.
1t was such talk as this that had injured
the Republican party. Il know that
sometimes i'll til" past the Republican
party has stood for prohibition and haSi
meant it and the democratic party has
stood for license aud has meant it, he
continued. lie warned the Democratic
party moi TO play double and said that he
believed in spite Of reports to the een-
trary Democrats whe have expressed
themselves us not in favor of resuhinis-
sion will not vote for ii. simply because
their party snaps the whip
Rev. w f. Berry Of Waterville. seefe-
tary of the Christian Civic League oi
Name advised Senator Staples to study
the statistics of the arrests for Violation
of the liquor law and drunkenness III
the state of Massachusetts, where local
option prevails. In Boston under local
option one person in every II was arrest
ed for drunkenness during the past year
and one person in 10 for other crimes
| He declared that the prohibitory law of
| Maine had been enforced better than the
law against the social evil. yet no one
| would think of having the law against
| the social evil repealed
Senator Staples asked MIR. Berry at this
| point If he was in favor of abolishng the
agencies of the state MI Berry replied
that this was not the question ut the
| present time.
| Mrs. Stevens announced ut this point
| that she had received kilograms from
| women in the south during the after
noon expressing the hop" that Maine
would take no backward step III the
| ma tier OF prohibition
II. f, I,ufkin of Portland. field Scere-
| tary OF the State Sunday School Assoc
citation. declared that TIN" saloon Gle
ment OF the country would spare II"
money or influence in their opposition
to the retention of the prohibitorN
amendment. He declared that the Sun-
day school men all over the state and
the country We're almost 10 a unit
opposed To resubmission.
t.. IL Emery of Sanford presented
the protest of tie York County Free
Baptist conference against rcslbnis-
sion.
Senator Staples speaking the second
time fer the proponents OF tile meas
IRE thanked MrsaSteNens and the 9TH
ers fer the courtesy which they h;td
shown the Democratic party and dis
| posed OF Mr.. GoWcn to his own salts
| faction. at least, by saying: Il never
would go to bed with a man that tad
| the itch if ! knew ii.
He SAID that the 3i77 arrests in Port
land during the past year tor drunk
enness. 17J of which were of women
and sc of children, showed that the
prohibitory law did not prohibit, -
am in Iavor of temperance. but You
cont have temperance under prohibi-
ton" he continued. Let the LcopIc
take caresof the question and thu Leg
islature Will endeavor if the people vote
for rcsubnliSsion to frame Il law suited
to the temperance people of the State.
Mrs. Stevens. speaking briefly at the
close of the hearing, stated that in
New Hampshire under the last year of
prohibition AIS persons We're commit
ted Tor intoxication ami 2lS1 under the
first year after u license law was
adopted; in Vermont under the first
year of prohibition S7S were committed
for intoxication. while during the first
year under a license law 2432 were com
United for the same aftence.