Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-08-19

nany ilMstrations Miss Gordon show
ca by ribbons sof fdiffcfent lengths the
money spent nRthe United States in
i one year for the public schools and
wasted in the liquor traffic, powerful
object lesson against the saloon.
The rally cries We're given with great
enthusiasm, especially the one on the
economic value Of prohibitions Beef
steak porksteak hucklebcrry pie.
Good old Maine, forever dry"
Mrs. Mary Harris Armour the
unique and distinguished temperance
orator, made an eloquent and stirring
! appeal for prohibition. She pointed
out the strides the temperance cause
had made throughout this country ahd
the world and urged the people oil
Maine to see that the prohibition
amendment was kept in the constltd-
| ton,
Mrs L. NJ. \. Stevens of Portland,
the worlds temperance leader hiau4
a splendid address. A brief abstract
| follows:
There is now pending IN Maine the
proposition to bring to the state the
licensed saloon. What IS the saloon
that it should receive the favorable
consideration OF any respectable man
or woman? Is there 4 father or
mother anywhere who can bow their.
heads tonight and thank God for
what the saloon has done for their
boy2 oh no. but there are thousands
of fathers and mothers whose heads
are bowed low under a terrible sor-
SOW because the boy Of their home
ard heart has wandered away through
strong drink.
W. may rs well clearly face the
issue which is before us-Prohibition
versus Iicense-the Home versus the
Saloon. If the licensed saloons come
to Maine they viii have to be cs-
tahlished somewhere. Is there anyone
in this audience. is there good per
son anywhere who wishes to haze the
licensed saloon next to his home, his
place of business. his Office. his
church tie schoolhouse where bis
CHILDREN Of his neighbours children go
to school. and If he does not want it
himself does n wish To have his
neighDor o. his friend just over the
town line to have it? Even the brew
ers of Milwaukee object to licensed
saloons near their residences AID a.
dolphus Busch. the multi-millioraire
has chosen TIE prohibition city of
Pasadena in which to build his pa
latial home in Which to bring up his
family, and not long ago the brewers
living in Milwaukee protested against
having the sal5ens established near
their homes. They care not that their
victims 6hc are brought to the stun
districts through drink are surround
I'd b drink shops.
The License League, according to the
resolution adopted al the meeting III
Augusta June Il. are working for the
annrlment of constitutional prohihi-
ton and for the enactment of . law
for regulation and control OF the
liquor traffic. The saloon regula TONS
usually are: Liquor sellers shall not
sell t. minors, shall rot sell to drunk
ards, shall hot sell OF Sundays shall
not ssn between midnight and eight
O'Clock m the morning. These rceu-
ldtinns arc constantly violated in
every license tom and in every Ii
censea saloon, thus creating far wore
law brcaHirg than does prohibition.
Even il taese regulations were rot
violated there is legal permission 10
sell liquor to the young man imlne
di9teiy after h is tWenty-one years
OF age during sixteen hours of avary
day in the year except Sunday This
can 90 on and on until he becomes
drunkard
I'he talk of controlling the Iiadn-
traffic ~ license is most absurd. Abra
ham Lincoln recognized this v hen he
said The most eflectual remedy
would be the passage of law al
togethering ahaishing the liquor TRAIT
tic There must be no more atteuluts
to regulate tho cancer, il mus be
eradicated, Horace Greeley IVES right
when he said: 1t is mad it is drlvel-
ing. to talk of regulating the traffic in
Intoxicating beverages
We are now in the midst OF the
greatest prohibition battle the world
has ever known. the result OF which
not alone will effect Maine but the
Whole country. yes. the whole world
On the license side of the question are
arrayed the brew ers, the distillers. the
liquor sellers. the gamblers. the keep
ers of houses of i'll repute. the promot-
ers % the White Slave traffic and all
their allies and symphatizers: on the
prohibition side is arrayed the church.
the Sunday schools. the Changers, the
temperance societies and their allies
and sympathizers. The liquor frater-
nifty has declared that Maine holds the
key to the prohibition problem and
that the overthrow of prohibition in
Maine would mean that prohibition
everywhere is doomed. and all of the
liqucr associations OF the country
have passed resolutions eondemning
prohibition voting to raise large sums
OF money for its overthrow. The
church conventions have declared in
favor of the retention Of the Maine
law, the Sunday School Association,
representing 100000 members, has done
the same and 50 have the Oranges,
representing 60o0O Patrons.
Another fallaeous claim is that pre-
hibition increases drunkenness. There
are realms Of statistics to prove the
aIIupV or This statement The most