Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-12-01
A California Tribute to Maine.

A California Tribute to Maine.
While our II. S. Senator Gardner il
down in Ohio. talking about the awfu
conditions as result of Names pro
hibitory law, eminently respectable anC
highly intelligent people in some sec
tons of the country are studying thu
statistics of states inpartially, anc
pay tribute to Maine on the strength
of her showing. The following comes
from far California:
Editor Kennebee Journal
On Sunday, November II, Worlds
Temperance Sunday, State Senator
John l.. Alvey of Redlands, gave
brief temperance address at the
session of the Sunday school of the
First Methodist Episcopal church,
in which he referred to conditions
in Maine under Prohibition. Prof.
w. l.. Morrison, one of the teach
ers of the school, in an article to
the Redlands Daily Review, re-
ferred to the address of Senator
Alvey, and enlarged upon it, after
ward publishing the article in
pamphlet form, copy of which is
herewith enclosed. Should you
care to publish the article, or any
portion of it. would be glad,
f. S. LIBBY.
Redlands, Cal, Nov. %, 1911.
MAINE CONTINUES A SOLID COR
NER-STONE.
Editor Review:
The address upon Prohibition in
Maine, given at the close of Sunday
School in the First NJ. e. Church last
Sabbath, was well rendered; besides
making deep impression upon the
entire school 1t was unfortunate
that our Senator Alvey was limited in
time We feel that from a careful
study of statistics, he had given us
the full situation in Maine as state
The Doctor tabulated his address upon
the blackboard, and showed conclu-
sively that from the decrease in
crime, the growth in education, and
the uplift of her institutions, Maine
had improved in every laudable direc-
ton. One of the Senator's most EN-.
phatic remarks in closing was: tina
city or state, refusing to grant Ii
cense to sell liquor, always grows il
the right direction. and, best of all
improves in its morals.
However there is an appendix to TIL
situation in Maine that is not Yer,
well known. Are We aware that Will
Maine has struggled on and on will
bulldog grit to support her prohibition,
law. and suppress the determined eff
forts of the whiskey element to sci
liquor, even against the state enact
ment, that our United States govern
ment granted over 1000 permits to sci
whiskey Unfortunately in thai
state, provided that there is paid into
our Nations treasury s25 for each
And is it generally understood thai
this blessed United States of ours de-
rives from this license, along with
some other of her deals in the whiskey
business, $4,000 annually, all from
Maine, even though she has state pro.
hibition?
To me, if this shows anything, it ii
this, that our government not only re.
fuses to lend hand toward helping
one of her states to sustain her laws
but it encourages law breaking wher
granting 1000 licenses, most of which
are blind pigs" thus placing a pre-
MUM upon lawlessness and vice.
Who is our Government? The party
in power, we must all admit; also tha'
the same party has had control o.
nearly every department of our ma
tionly affairs for forty-two out of tn,
sctf ~ leo fo ird n
its total revenue, or 200 million dollars
each year, is derived from the sale o
intoxicating liquors.
Last evening, / spent an hour or 81
in studying one of Senator La Fol
Iette's greatest speeches, rendered be
fore the u. S. Senate July 13, 1911
Senator La Toilette is called pro
gressive" Republican. 1 am glad t,
hear that he prefixes the adjective, TO
Heaven knows there is need of it. l
any Republican is elected president, IL
1912, hope he will be the man, for h
stands so bravely for reforms that ar
needed. But after reading his notabl
document, / went over it again in
sort of mathematical way, and from
five of its pages. counted the wore
tdiAit NiIi ~ liiHe LlliieS, anu III liz
entire pamphlet, the word Taft" thir
ty times; while the great shadow how.
ering over US was entirely omitted, ex.
cept as it contributes toward our ma.
tional revenue.
Returning moment to the situation
in Maine, let us remember that after
half century or so of prohibition she
has, as Senator Alvey well said. gained
such victories for reeitude and wealth;
but an election was forced upon her
this year to determine whether the
state should continue dry" or go back
to saloons. After a long time we
learned that our good old corner state
yonder had gone dry" but by the Skin
of her teeth
And must this great country, whose
mountains are laden with minera
wealth; her prairies grooming unde
the weight of cereals, vegetables, live
stock; her great forests with timbe
enough to supply the world; with com
mercial avenues sufficient to regulat
that Of all other nations, along wit
all her other minor resources, stoop t
augment its bank account by the reye
nue. secured from q partnership in
grogshop?
w. l.. MORRISON.
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