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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-07-10


incl andsthe other liquor papers of our
State that .stiespots and devils are
laughing at the theories of govern
mental functions they are UNFOLDING.
But bark! A great storm is gathering
IN Maine. 1t will not be merely cloud
burst which will devastate the beautiful
valley of the kennebec leaving the rest
OF our commonwealth untouched. No,
no. 1t is going To be storm such as
we have never. had before in Maine that
storm of ballots deciding between the sa-
loon and the law When the noble sons
of Maine stand shoulder to shoulder In
their places at the polls on election day,
next September, they will demand in
numbering tones by their ballots that
the liquor PRESS our politicians and in
coming Legislatures must hereafter
practice greater fidelity to our constitu-
ton and loyalty TO our liquor laws The
liquor traffic is the great foe known to
men, It is unworthy of a place. in this
eyes of the world are upon Maine in this
great crisis. The statements in your able
editorial in this. mornings issue of the
Journal on "The Eyes OF the w orld an
Maine" and that Some of the leading
minds OF Europe agree and applaud our
state as being ahead of the world in
dealing with the greatest evil that ever
beset mankind is indeed true as every
person who has travelled abroad can tes-
tify. | recently received a letter from
prominent temperance worker In Europe,
who said, among other things. II pray
God that you will win great victory for
prohibition Maine, the temperance world
is with you i'm your great fight us
arouse ourselves to action. and do our
duty like men, and. on election day in
September, may God give us a strength
even as great as that of Sampson with
his jaw bone, or David with his sling to
strike at the wicked liquor traffic with
all our ferCe-and glorious victory will
perch upop our banners that will not on
Iy rejoice our hearts but those of our
temperance friends throughout the world
| close with a statement from one of the
most brilliant of American statesmen
the Hon James G. Blaine, whose love
for the State of Maine and her people
was intense, and whose name can never
die-Mr Blaine, in speaking of our pro-
hibitory law we'll said, "Intemperance
has steadily decreased in Maine, since
the enactment of the prehibitory law,
and the people of the state have been
made industrious and provident by tnls
wise law''-The great personality of Mr.
Blaine is felt today when we refer to his
grand words on prohibition
Being dead he yet speaketh'
art to his fame no aid hath lent,
His country is his monument
FRANK w. GOWEN,
Waterviile, July I. 1911
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-07-10

Sept $-27-2s-North Knox Fair Union.
Sept. 1921 2S-B Bristol Fair, Bristol Mills.
Sept. T-2s-Northern Oxford Fair, An
Sept Northumberland Farmers Club.
Fair West Cumberland.
Sept 2s-S0-Somerset County Fair,
Arson.
Oct. 3-4-Unity Park Assn. Unity.
Oct 8-4-5-West Oxford Fair, Fryebure
Oct. 3-i-5-Franklin County Fair, Far
Oct, s-4-5-Lincoln County hair, Dam
Oct. 4-6-Freeport Agricultural Society
Oct. 1o-ii -I2-sagadahoc County Fair,
Topsham.
Dec. 12-13-H- Maine. Poultry and Pet
Stock Association, Portland.
Dec. 26-27-2 -29-Freeport Poultry Asso-
Jan. 2-3-i. ig1s-wsstern Maine Poultry
Pomona Dates.
July Invest Washington Pomona. Ad-
July 25-Kennebec Pomona. Chelsea.
Aug. 2-Androsciggin Pomona, Auburn
Aug. 3-Cumberland and oxford Pomo-
ma, Kezar Falls.
Aug. 5-Union meeting. Pittston.
Aug. S-Waldo Pomona, Palermo.
Aug. 9-Kennebec Pomona. Monmouth.
Aug. 10-York Pomona, Newfield
Ans. ~ icumbeflapd Pomona cumber-
Aug. 1t-Hancoek Pomona Field Day.
Biuehill Mineral Springs
Aug. ll--North Franklin Pomona. New
Vineyard.
Aug. 1S-Androscoggin Field Meeting.
East Auburn
Aug. 22-Field Day, South Paris Fair
/ Grounds Ft
Aug. 23-York Pomona Field Day. Ossi-
pee Lake
Aug. 29-Penobscot Pomona. Dexter.
Aug. 31-kennebec Field Day. National
Home
Regimentai Reunions.
July B-15-6th Maine, Ellsworth.
Aug. 2-23-Annual reunion of First
maine Heavy Artillery Assn. Camp Ben
son, Newport
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Coming Events

Cb IVY educational Young peonI.,
Jn,,s a5 Union Portland.
Gil. urn.Meeeting of Governor and Coun-
| E II1ay H-2S-Annual Convention Main.
Aur association, Augusta.
EIisWortb -oid Home Week Celebration.
ReaIs Sy.nasnnual Reunion of I.uelIa n
Aug 7u o1s Association, Winthrop.
campment S Sna Regiment Infantry En-
Aug. s-Celebrs tLiaanmpground. Augusta.
saty OF town of Washington 1NihiSer-
aug' GI1I-Chesterville Center scboo, Pa
union, Chesteryille Center SsAiooi NV
Aug 12-4-AnnuaI musfar Co..
cook, Newport lane Sepastl-
School, Charlestown summer
Aug. l61Reunion Old Home weal,
Assn, Of !, Weeks v Mills, New Sharon. eek
the G.. a. r.. Rochester. n. o'
Aug. 25-Sept. East Livermore ca,nn
meeting, East Livcrmore ~a"ip-
sept Tenth Annual Reunion of the
Fogg Family, almouth House. Portta ~, M
Sept. Especial election In Maina on
prohibitory amendment, Davies direct
primary. bill. Portland debt limit and
declaration OF Augusta as State Capitai
Sept. 27-2S- 29-Annual Convention of
Maine Womans Christian temperance
| Union. Waterville.
Oct; a-5-Maine Baptist Convention,
| Oct. 12-14-Bangor Musical Festival.
Oct. 16-B-Portland Musical Festival
Oct %.B-27-Annual Convention Mains
teachers Association, Augusta.
| Nov. 14-15-16-Annual Convention Maine
State PomoloGical Society, Augusta.
Maine Fair Dates.
Aug. S-11-Stake races, Augusta.
Aug. 15-16~17-Cornish Fair, Cornish.
aug lb-l7-Waldo County Agriculture
Society Fair, Belfast.
Aug 15,l6-17-1S-Portland Agriculture
Aug 2-25-za-2S-Eastern Maine Stat,
Aug. 29-sept. 1-central Maine Fair
Sept. 4-5-s-7-Maine State Fair. Levin.
| ton.
Sept. b-6-7-Machias Fair Assn. Ma
chias
Sept. b-s-7-Hancock County, Fair, Blue
| Sept. 6rs-7-Northern Maine Fair Asso
citation, PFesque Isle
Sept. 9-First Annual Bows and GirIs
Fair OF Winthrop Grange, Winthrop
Sept. 3-Androscoggin County Fair
Livermore Falls.
Sept. 12-i4-Waldo and Penobscot Arri.
cultural Society, Monroe.
Sept. 12-1S-14-West Washington Fair
sept, l2-is-1t-North Penobscot Fair
Sept. i2-1s-rEoIford County Fair
South Paris.
Sept. l2-iS-t-Kennebeo County Fair
sept. 1l1b-1s-Esst Somerset Fair
Hartland.
Sept. northumberland County Fair
Gorham.
Sept. 192O-21 Androscoggfn Valley
Fair, Canton.
Sept. 19=20-21-South Kennebeo AgricuI.
tural Society, South Windsor.
Sept 20-2i-Eden Fair, Eden.
Sept 26-Richmond Farmers Club Fair.
Richmond.
Sept. 20 7-2s-Calais Town Fair.
Sept. 26-27-2s-West Pehobscot Fair,
Exeter.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-07-10
After the Coal Trust.

In spite of the torridity of the
weather in the past few days, the peo-
pie of this country are reading with
more or less satisfaction. according to
the size of their furnace and coal bills
of the renewed action of the govern
ment to cause the coal trust to toe the
mark The first move of the federal
forces will be to disassociate the great
coal carrying railroads from their vir-
tual control of mines and thus vitalize
the commodities clause of the inter
state commerce law. A test case was
filed Thursday against the Lehigh
Valley Railroad in the United States
court of Philadelphia.
AS shown in the Kennebec Journal
dispatches Friday morning. by proving
that the Lehigh Valley Railroad is &C
tually the legal owner of the Lehigh
Valley Coal Company's anthracite, or
has a pecuniary interest in it. the gov
eminent hopes to bring its case into
line with the recent decision of the SUI
preme court, in the commodities clause
case. strike down dummy coal com
panies. and force the coal carrying
railroads from their control of mines
While in effect the governments ac-
ton is blow at the o-called coal
trust, the case is apart from that suit
which is now on appeal to the supreme
court
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-07-10
Children Cry
FOR FLETcHER'S
9 a 9 TO RTE
itching Burning
Skin Eruptions

A warm bath with Cuticura soap and
a single application of Cuticura ONT
ment usually afford immediate relief.
permit rest and sleep and point to
speedy and successful treatment OF
torturing, dIsffguring humors. eczemas.
rashes. itchings and irritations of In
fants. children and adults, when all
else fails. Cuticura soap aud ointment
are also most valuable for preserving.
Purifying and identifying the skim
scalp. hair and hands. for shaving.
shampooing aud sanative cleansing. az
well as for every purpose of the toilet:
bath and nursery
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-07-10
Harmony. Me, July I.
The Saloon and the Law.

Editor Kennebec Journal:
Since the State of Maine first adopt
ed the great principle of prohibition
over half century ago tbeng the first
State or section IN all the world to
declare that to tolerate the liquor traf-
fic. the greatest foe to civilization by
ANY form of license or regulation. was
infamy) no less than nine great states
in our nation have prohibited the
liquor traffic from their commerce.
while i'm almost every state thousands
of counties, cities and towns have
driven the rum traffic from their
midst. So todaA we find that nearly
half of the population of our govern
ment. fully 4O,OM.oOo. are living I'M
der prohibition. aQd that in the states
and counties or sections where this
great principle his been adopted there
has been an increase in the. output of
every branch of industry, crime,
pauperism, insanity. murders, suicides
and other evils traceable directly to
the liquor traffic have been lessened;
wages have been increased and taxes
lowered. There is no getting away
from the fact that the people ofsthe
= iiIttd CldltS HpDh upph tiit ittluoi
traffic as "a crime of great enormity''
and the only way to bring about its
overthrow is by absolute prohibition.
Thus we are making wonderful
progress along these lines of % great
reform in this 10th century and our
future historians will tell our speopfa
how our great government .ceasedy to
be partner Tor rather beneficiary in
the liquor business, how our national
constitution prohibited the importa-
ton, manufacture and sale of alco-
holic liquors, and how the awful sin
and shame of a nation collecting Yin
blood money. as revenue. each year
$215,0 600 out of the untold millions
reaped from the wreck of her chill
dren, was forever stopped in our fair
land.
Now. in speaking of our great fight
to retain our present prohibitory law.
would like to ask what our thought
full citizens think of the noisy objec-
tions and alleged defects of the policy
of prohibition so vociferously dinned
into their ears by newspapers like the
Waterville Sentinel, the Eastern Argus,
Bangor Commercial and the New Age?
May | not infer that they hold the
same views as did temperance
Democrat who spoke to me the other
day about This matter and said that
these liquor papers We're trying to
work all the injury possible to our
lprohibitory law by their mischievous
discussions of this great question"
The liquor press of Maine are fighting,
Itooth and nail to rid our State of it's
prohibitory law, and in its place to set
up local option, or regulation of the
rum traf1c. In other words, these
| liquor papers would have the State of
maine become the procurer or agent
| 20 gratlfyethe Passions ef. its citizenas
even though such qualification. by
running them, would destroy it's own
lie, and l say to the Wateryille Senti-
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lime 70 Call a Halt.

1t Is high time to call a halt on the
actions of some of the Saturday night
revclers. who take this occasion to run
things to suit themselves, backed up
with few quarts of red eye" The
Atlantic Shore Line has taken the
fnitiatory step. in serving warning
that intoxicated persons on their cars
running through here are going to be
properly dealt with. and we know the
town officers will be only too glad to
back them up. We are not running a
temperance paper. in the sense tenn
perance people would like to have II
but we do believe that sober people
have right to walk around towr
Saturday night, as we'll as any other
night. without being held up by a gang
of DRINKS. a circumstance which Is
getting to be altogether too frequent
old York Transcript.
We wonder how long it would take
this "non-temperanee" paper to be
come disguised with any sort of {
license system. We believe ii would
hoiler for help. very soon after tn,
Democratic plan of open rum SHOPS
should be put in operation.
We are glad to see a paper that Il
mot temperance paper" dema NJ
some rights for people who are no
drunk
We have had numerous complaint
from York. and the proximity o
Frank Jonestowns. When the protese'
bf the beer trust and the whisky trus
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-07-10
A Correction.

Editor kennebec Journal:
| have just read the item in the
Journal of Monday in regard to Mr.
Josiah Hight of CornYille. and wish to
make one correction. Mr. Hight was
sheriff at the time of the Hurd muir
der. but your correspondent is mis-
taken in regard to the arrest of the
murderer. He was arrested by John
Collins. who was deputy in this town
under Mr.. Hight. Hurd did not go
into the cellar to hide. or make any at
tempt to escape in any way. which he
might easily, have done during the ex-
citement or before anyone arrived on
the scene. He simply sat down on
the rollway door and whitfield until
the sheriff and several neighbors ar
rived. He made no protest whatever
when arrested. and was taken to Nor
ridgewoek the next day by Mr.. Col
Inns without even the formality of
handouts
w. S. BEMIS.
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MON MOUTH.

EAST-Miss Mary Norris Of Lynn,
Mass. is at the Norris farm for the
summer.
VIII Tinkham and family OF Saco
are ut their farm for few weeks
Dl. Griswold and son Hector. Edgar
Willie and son Arthur and j. Liteh-
field of Massachusetts have been pass
ing few days at the Norris camp
gsscrdon Mellen OF New York is at
che Mellon cottage for the season.
Miss Jennie Davidson of Lawrence
Mass. is the guest of the Coey fam
lily.
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are abroad in a town IL is the sup
posed to-be duty of respectable citf-
zens to remain under their beds to
avoid all possibility of conflict. If
they are obliged to go abroad and are
insulted and abused. assaulted or their
property destroyed they are expected
| to recommend mercy for the poor
drunken man." and to swallow their
financial loss with a smile.
OF course a poor drunken man
doesn't know any better and he should
| be forgiven. and of course no one
could expect the business man who
sold him the intoxicant to pay for the
damage.
But it is a wholesome sign of the
times that newspaper which lis not
temperance paper" demands few
American rights for sober people.
Perhaps some day some of these pa
pers. that are so far from being tenn
peranee papers that they are out-and-
out rum papers, may reach point
where they will believe sober people
have as good a right to live and en-
joy what they earn as has the yowl-
ing, whooping. crime soaked. flthy,
disgusting drunkard to so about kick
ing and swearing. uttering vile enathe-
mas in the ears of women and children
and destroying the hard earned prop
ertr of his neighbors.
1t seems that this York county pa
per which lis not temperance pa
per" realizes that conditions are get
ting worse and worse under this Gov
cred Bridge" administration and its
support by rum trust influence. The
Old Transcript breaches pretty
strong temperance sermon in its few
words of declaration of principles and
denunciaton of conditions.
Let the good work go on!
We are foolish enough to forecast
great and grand results in civic
awakening to spring out of this rum
trust avarice. We believe the public
conscience of Maine is being aroused
as it never has been before. We be
lieve that the attempt of the liquor
interests to absorb the Democratic
party of Maine. body and soul, will
arouse such wave of indignation and
temperance spirit as has never been
known to the world
We predict that before the end OIL
1913 Maine will give such demon
straticn of prohihitory law enforce
ment as none has yet dared to hope.
We believe that the people OF
Maine are becoming aroused to de
gree that will not only reaffirm the
law but will exact an en-
forcement that will wholly eclipse all
efforts.
When the Republican party is swept |
back into power. by a people who had
been once misled by false promises |
and loud -mouthed chatter, it will be |
called upon to justify the wisdom OF
the voters 1t will be called upon to
Danish first the greatest evil of all,
the influence of the liquor interests.
Chastened by defeat and reorganized.
the party will stand for what the Ken
nebec Journal and other leading pa
pers of Maine are standing for today
better things and bigger advancement
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A Liquor Boomerang.

The license press of Maine recently
made much of statement in the re
cent interstate commerce report as to
the quantity of iutoXicants carried
Unto prohibition territory during the
past year.
The amount so transported is given
as 20000.00O gallons. This seems a
large quantity But what relation do
these 2o.0000,600 gallons sent from
license states into prohibition territory
hear to the total quantity used in the
United States?
The total amount of intoXicants pro-
duced in and imported into the United
states in 1910 was in round numbers
2,l00 000. goo gallons The population
OF the United States a1.972.2 66 and that
of the nine prohibitory states is 49,
602.9 1915.
1t will be seen then that while the
total population of the prohibitory
states is one-sixth of that of the
United States, the 2Q,o0o,o00 gallons OF
intoxicants shipped into these states is
only 1-106 part of the total quantity
OF intoNicants brought into and pro-
duced in the United States. That is.
the 20,oO0,000 sent into the prohibition
states allows LIS gallons per inhabi-
tant. while the 2,0S0. 400 400 in the rest
or the United States allows 2211 gal
ions per inhabitant. or nearly eigh-
teen times as much as in prohibition
territory.
NO recent public statment so force
fuIiy emphasizes the value of prohibi-
ton as does this report of the inter-
state commerce commission.
We thank the license press for Civ
ing it publicity.
w. F. BERRY.
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AMT Progressive Plot


spired in Washington and spread
broadcast throughout the country, tell
ing of an "anti-progressive plot"
Some correspondents are bold enough
TO suggest that this plot" is engi-
neered from the White House, and that
1T is aimed primarily at La Follette's
presidential candidacy.
These stories are founded largely on
fhe buster of Representative Norris
of Nebraska, who has given cut in
terviews of a striking character i'm
plicatins the private secretary to the
President, Mr. C. D. Hilles. It is
charged that Mr.. Hilles is operating an
anti-rrogressive press bureau. and
that papers print lies and refuse to
deny or correct them.
Mr. Norris, in answer to telegram
from the Republican Progressive
League of Nebraska, says that some
time ago there was begun, in certain
newspapers, systematic and daily
publications of Misrepresentation and
false reports regarding the course
taken by leading progressive Republic
cans in Congress In most instances,
these publications were without any
authority whatever and were abso-
lutely and entirely contrary to the
facts. They were repeated and re-
peated Mems names were mentioned
day after day, notwithstanding the
fact that they were repeatedly met
with denials. Their denials were not
published, and In this way there has
been a systematic combination of some
of the leading newspapers in the coun-
try TO misrepresent the real facts by
false reports. Not many days ago. an
article was published in a Washington
newspaper, stating, in effect, that all
supporters of Senator La Toilette had
abandoned his cause and were enthus
iastically working in favor of the re-
nomination of Mr.. Taft. The follow
ing day, this article in various forms.
hut in substance always the same, APP
peared in a great many newspapers
In the United States
At the close of his philippe, Mr..
Norris had the good grace to absolve
President Taft from any part in the
so-oalIed conspiracy, but he makes it
plain that he believes Private Secre-
tary Hilles is engineering a plan to
the next national convention.
However much our readers may dis
agree with the President in his rect
procity policy, we doubt II there are
any who will be ready to believe that
MIR. Taft could be persuaded to per-
init any such campaign to exist If he
had the slightest knowledge of it,
One characteristic of President Taft
which has never been questioned by
even his most violent enemy, is his
rugged honesty and his sportsman
like acceptance of things as they are
whether they agree with his interests
or not.
Most great men. at some period in
their lives. have made mistakes and
have been severely criticized by those
who loved and admired them most
We believe that President Taft made
his mistake in this reciprocity matter,
but we do not believe that man of
his great mind and heart could bring
himself to have any part in an unfair
scheme to defeat political OPP onent.
And we are convinced that if there is
a grain of truth in the declarations
of Mr.. Norris. more than one uncom-
PORTABLE half hour is due Private SEE
retary Hilles when the President shall
have investigated
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lCEBORO.

Mrs. Alice VI. Flint. Henry O. Flint. Roy
NJ. Brown. Milda sedinburg. all of Need
ham Heights, Mass. and MelYnfs A. Brown
Of Portland spent the week OF the Fourth
at Mapiewood Farm, with Mrs. Jennie
Sylvester
Everything was quiet here on the Fourtt
except the thermometer. which mounted VI
to 104 at Maplewood Farm.
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Fifty AGAINST Two.

1t is not reasonable to expect two
weeks of outing to overcome the eff
fects of fifty weeks of confinement.
Take a bottle of Hoods Sarsaparilla
along with you. Three doses, daily.
of this great tonic will do more than
anything else to refresh your blood.
overcome your tired feeling, improve
your appetite. and make your sleep
easy and restful.
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Editor Kennebec Journal.
Does any reader know of a checker
club in this vicinity that one could
JOIN II he desires am interested in
the game and would be willing to do
my part towards organizing a club if
a sufficient number could be obtained
to start one
Augusta CHECKER
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Editor S Letter Box

The publication of letter In
this department is not to be taken
as an endorsement of its views by
the Kennebec Journal This col
umn is maintained for the discus
sion of matters of general public
interest when kept within bounds
of reason and not of libelous or
abusive nature.
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Ma ain Gossip
Nv Irish Home,

The grass is green in my Irish home,
And the primrose blooms today;
The wild rose grows on the Abbey ruins.
In my home across the spray.
The skies are blue and the village square
Looks green and fair and bright
The convent bells ring sweet and clear
In the mondays golden light.
The sheep they Craze on the yonder hills
And the homeward school boys sing:
They romp along the dusty way,
And the robin voices ring.
The daisy blooms in the fair broad fields,
And the ivy decks the way.
The anvil rings on the village forge
In my Irish home today.
The woodbine ON the village church,
The silver moon sweet glow,
In the village of my childhood.
In the long. long years ago.
And the waters of the purling spring
In the ield Just Ger the way,
1 remember with a sweetness as
II were but yesterday.
-Hibernian, Boston.