The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1911-04-20
NAMES STEP BACKWARD.
kennelec Journal.

The following letter under the head
line Maine and Prohibition appeared
/ in the Ansonia Comm Evening Senti-
mel of March 22nd. 1t is self-eXpana-
| tory and furnishes food for thought for
! Maine people. 1t is written by one who
/, has lived under prohibition and under
other regimes of liquor regulation and
lack of regulation. The writer declares
| that Maine has been on the right track;
| that the only way to handle the liquor
I traffic is to prohibit it. And he calls at
tentlon to fact, which is recognized in
other New England States as we'll as in
! Maine. that The victory of the Demo-
! cratic party in Maine last fall was moth
ing more nor less than the selling out Of
| the party to the liquor interests. Here
is the letter:
Il read an article in Saturday night S
issue of the ''Sentinel' entitled Rum
and Politics in Name" from the Spring
! field Union" The article refers to re-
! cent victories Of the Democratic party in
] Maine and speaks Of these victories as
! being signs of progress and of progress
! sive politics and that progressive poit-
i icians should read the Handwriting on
the wall.
| should like to say to the "Springfedl
Union that it advancing the interest is
Of the liquor traffic is progressive poll
| tics, for one do not want to have any,
thing to do with progression and progress
sive politics, and if the advancement Of
the liquor traffic is the ''Springfeld
Unions IDEAL of progressive politics,
the 'Springfeld Union" is certainly a
menace to the welfare Of Massachusetts
and to the country at large.
| TO
! wall, it means this; that if Maine loses
its prohibitory liquor law at the election
next September, it will mark the begin
corruption the like of which Maine has
never known, and it will be the greatest
blow to the cause of temperance that the
world has ever seen.
| was born and brought up in Maine,
and of course have the best interests of
| Maine at heart. | lived there until was
quite little over 81 years of age, and
I since left there | have lived in both
Massachusetts, and Connecticut, conse-
| quently have had a good opportunity
for observing the working of both meth
DDS of handling the liquor traffic, and the
longer l live the more thoroughly am
convinced that Maine has been on the
right track and that the only way to
handle the liquor traffic is to prohibit it.
At the time of the election last fall the
people in Maine did not hesitate to say
that there were thousands of dollars sent
into Maine by liquor dealers outside of
!! the State to advance the interests of the
Democratic party, and when any politi-
/, cal party will use money like that it
means no good to Maine or any other
State. The victory of the Democratic
party in Maine last fall was nothing more
nor less than the selling out of that
party to the liquor interests of the coun-
try.
How many, many times we hear Maine
spoken Of as being Gods country! Why
i is this? l will tell you why it is. 1t is
because the prohibition laws of Maine,
backed up by the State constitution, have
been doing Gods work. The devil has
been there, will admit, but if Maine
loses prohibition the devil will reign su-
preme and it will be Gods country nc
longer, in the sense it is spoken of now.
l am sure no one would ever speak of
Ansonia as being Gods country.
only regret shall not have the priv
lege of giving my vote to the cause OF
prohibition in Maine next September.
| S. J. LANE,
81 Clover street, Ansonia.
| Formerly of Prospect, Maine.