Ellsworth American., 1911-02-22

' peftO0 You viii zee constantly iHcteseiuB
number given In favor Of submitting this
amendment, beginning I think with
twenty EIGHT, and, IL ! am not mistaken,
the last time il received some fifty or sixty.
Those are in sense straws pretty strong
oues-bu think they indicate what
maintain to be the fact.
Then every one OF rs has sources of in
formation; every one Of rs knows good
many people in different parts Of the State
and put it to you, gentlemen, il when
you we're going around and seeing people
and conversing with them in this State,
it is not your judg nent that the demand
Of the people for IN opportunity to vote
upon this important constitutional
amendment is decisive, is clear, is present
with US. do not mean that every body in
the State demands it. l maintain, how
ever, that q majority Of the citizens Of
this State are in favor of and desire an op-
portunity to vote upon the question, and
that we are confronted with that as q fact.
Now when we find that to be fact, why
think mat that is practically settle
| ment Of q necessary primary question.
WHAT WILL BE EFFECT?
Now my idea is that in approaching this
thing, as we must conscientiously, we
| should go farther and figure as to the ef-
feet of this proposition to resu bmit this
amendment to the people. Well, now
what is the effect, what may be the effect
ofi,? Think that good many people in
the State do not fully understand it.
Prior to the passage of this amendment,
which was in 1854, there were for more
than twenty yesrs-more than twenty five
years, ! think = stringent laws on the
statute books against the sale OF liquor.
When the amendment was passed in 1884
those laws were there. After it was passed
tay were there; they are there now.
Waen this amendment is repealed, il it is
repealed, by the people, it will not in any
degree change one word or line of the
statute prohibiting the sale Of intoxicst-
ing liquors. No matter what the vote is
on the question OF adopting the amend
ment next fall, it will not alter one parti-
Gle of the legislation of this body touch
ing the manufacture and sale OF liquor.
Moreover, it will leave it entirely in the
hands Of the legislature, then and there.
after, to take care Of the question Is it sees
fit.
Now in connection, leaving it as it does,
ii this amendment 10 passed, this provi-
sion ls repealed, leaving it As il does then,
entirely in the hands OF the legislature to
pass by statutes Is it sees fit in its wisdom
any prohibitions against the sale Of liquor,
i.nt there is q very important considers
tion, ,and one tnst nss q very intimate con-
nection with this question, that the con-
stitntion has been previously changed SO
that the people participate in legislation.
II this constitution was Is it used to be,
il the pvople nad no opportunity to re-
ject our laws and no chance to introduce
anything themselves that they might have
to pass in the way OF legislation, think
q man could well hesitats longer, perhaps,
before voting to give an opportunity to
repesi TINS provision, 70 submit tnis pro-
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