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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-08-30
PROHIBITION ADDRESS.
Mrs. Harris Armor Pleased Big Audi.
ence in Church at Bangor.

Until Sunday, August q, the pro-
hibitory campaign seemed to have
stopped short at the kennebec Val
ley Bangor heard its echoes; but the
brass bands, the public meetings, the
oratory and the excitement were con-
fined rather religiously to the west
ern and central sections of the State.
On Sunday, however even Bangor
was remembered. very famous wo-
man orator, Mrs Mary Harris Armor,
speaking here several times. AS IL
happened, also, the Salvation Army
conducted two important mass meet
ings in city Hall-not originally plan
ned in the cause of prohibition. out
given temperance tinge in that MRS.
Armor made a few remarks at the
one in the afternoon.
At night, when Mrs Armor spoke in
the Columbia Street Baptist church,
every seat was taken long before the
hour of opening. Considered as piece
of oratory. her address was magni-
fieent. There was about it certain
iusniriner enthusiasm which must have
Immersed everyone And as d rapid
fro sneaker her equal does not exist.
IIe,. listeners were drenclled in a per-
feet Niagara of words, winch tuihpied
forth at the rate of several hundred
minute. It seemed almost impos-
sible that anyone could think. let
alone speak. as rapidly-for once the
human tongue kept pace with the hui
man brain
1t is impossible to report fraction
nj mart of what Mrs Armor said, al
though il was all so fiery ana enthu-
siastic. and at times so vitrioiic, tina.
everyone was Interested = almost
spetibound She began by saying that
a great tidal wave of prohibition,
tarted by the vote of Georgia, is
sweepinr over the country and that
the big liquor interests are prepared
to spend millions. If need be. to stay
ito nrogress. 1t is they, the liquor in
terasts which are at the bottom OF the
sentiment for repeal in Maine-and
not on]y the liquor interests of the
United States. but those Of the civil
izad world. Controlling millions, they
are able to buy and control brains
TO emnlov the services of men who In
q thousand ingenious and subtle ways
are able to confuse and cloud the is
sue. Thus they are able to twist and
manufacture chords of figures for
campaign purposes-in fact, main
tanning a highly paid mathematician
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-08-30

ment that prohibition does not pro-
hibit. This statement is usually in-
dulged in by those who are either IN
the liquor traffic or favor it If inns
be true. why does the liquor clement
work So strenuously in opposition 10
prohihitory measures? But their
claim may be swept TO the winds ey
suggesting that we repeal all laws
against murder, theft, assaults, ana
crimes of all character, because OF
the fact that these laws do not pro-
hihit these crimes.
It was u grand day When the slay-
cry Of human beings was abolished in
1864. 1t will perhaps be as grand and
I'M Dortant a day when the liquor
traffic. which is making many more
slaves than existed before the wal.
shall be eliminated by national and
state government.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-08-30
Editorial Comment
Will You Pray for Maine?
tSunday School Times.3


World issues are sometimes COM
paeted into very small compass. Natne
is not il large state, but world issue
is going To be brought out there on
September II. And much of the world
is mtelligentl2 and hopefully watching
the tight. To one who has long served
readers of The Sunday School Times
in their temperance interests. Mrs. Zil-
lab Foster Stevens, there has come
this heart -wrung appeal from workers
who are in the thick of the fight in
Maine September 10 Is Quarterly
Temperance SUNDAY The day atser
September Ii. Maine votes whether
Constitutional Prohibition shall be r.
pealed. This is world battle i'll the
birthplace of Prohibition The issue Is
in doubt. Through The Sunday School
Times get word to the world to make
September 10 day of prayer for
Maine. The enemy did not know when
they selected September II that the
churches of the world would be pray
ing about temperance the day before.
This should spell Victory" This y
Il far graver issue than the uniformed
reader can appreciate. The people ef
Europe where prohibition sentiment Is
making such masterful strides, and the
worlds leading scientists-medical and
otherwise-Who are now driving alec
hol to its death. are profoundly stirred
over the possibility of disaster n
Maine, which has been their star oe
hope in much blackness. God alone
can order the outcome according to his
will. By prayer alone can the will OF
God come to pass. Let us pray for
Maine. In next weeks issue of TIE
Times. in season for careful consider
alton before Temperance Sunday vii
be published, from The National Adj
yocate. a most remarkable presenta :
ton of the facts as to the Maine stu
alton. and how Europe and America
view it, It is world conflict Let
us not fail through unoffered prayer.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-08-30
Maine Without an Issue.
Editor keunebec journal:

htUHtDec journal.
Local Option License was born in poll
ties and its continuance is determined by
legislative action from term to term. II
has been patched and amended In the
legislatures of license states ever since
its invention, either because il failed In
regulate or regulated too much To the
disadvantage of the liquor interest and
party. Local option has stood and stands
now TO catch 1.-THE man on the fence
aud license, plain license. for the plain
liquor vote. The question has been
stepped not to say soaked, in politics of
the alcoholic brand. its foul breath al
ways rank with the fumes of the whiskey
STILL ceilar-dive, pool room and houses
of i'll repute. But Maine leads as she
has always led She has been known and
honored as the birthplace of should be
Presidents ever since the enactment of
the prohibitory law. The two things were
eo-ineident. Her Congressman and Gov
errors, with few exceptions. were trained
in the temperance lodges and churches of
the State. Temperance and prohibition,
the stepping stones to party preferment
But now we are assured by Governor
Plaisted, originally temperance man,
though a Democrat. that the way TO take
the liquor question out of politics is to
deprive the State of its main issue, the
liquor question. Suspended animation.
something between license and prohibit
ton. enforcement and nullifieation Is
what the Governor must mean If he is
logically a license man. Not arrested
development, the development of states
manship. Under prohibition Maine has
produced more statesmen than all the IL
eense states combined and the rule holds
good that license breeds. mainly. politi-
clans, opens a direct way from the sa-
loon to office. Maine has blocked this
thoroughfare for 60 years. Keep prohibit
ton in the constitution.
J. s. WHITE,
Naples, Me, Aug. q.
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REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.
CNew York Press.)


We think our good deeds; We act
the bad ones.
Friends seem principally TO spend
money on.
Time and tide wait for no man, but
the devil always does for every man
After man has raised several chill
dren they act as ii they had raised
him
A girl with yellow hair. no matter
how she got it. can imagine she has
blue eyes to 90 with ii If they're as
black as ink.
widow is always willing to learn
from a man so she Will need to learn
more.
The most comfortable pedigree to
have is one that goes back to gold
mine.
When a woman isn't losing her hair
very fast it's a sign she is sure it's
growing thicker and longer.
If it rained dollars in your back
yard the. bottom of it would drop out
and they would all go through to
China.
If a Womaus bank account balances
the first time she tries it she doesn't
dare verify it, for fear it won't again.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-08-30
Mountain Climbing.
fSnrinpfield Rep,,hlican

Two mountain climbers were found
frozen to death and almost buried in the
snow on the slopes Of Pixies peak in Col
orado Tuesday afternoon. They had
started to walk up the peak. and were
insufficiently protected for the storm that
overlook them. Compared with the an
nual death toll in the Alps, the fatalities
resulting from mountain climbing in
America are comparatively infrequent, no
doubt owing to the fact that a much
smaller number of persons endeavor the
ascent of dangerous peaks in this coun-
try 1t has recently been claimed in be-
half Of the sport of aviation that its ia
talities have been proportionately fewer
than those among Alpine mountain climb
ers but on the other hand enthusiastic
Alpinists declare that the basis of COM
Eparison has been wholly unfair through
ignoring the fact that the majority of
accidents happen, not to the adventurous
climbers who try the high peak in the
company of experienced guides, but to
ignorant tourists who without realizing
it wander off on dangerous slopes in
search of edelweiss,
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-08-30

ter Of acsic, and he viii tell you it 8
tic over. it, Indeed. anybody with a
grain of common Intelligence can see
that the logic is irresistible and the
conclusion unanswerable. There is
nothing for these poor. deluded Maine
folks to do but to rise up en- masse and
overthrow prohibition. Human life is
far too valuable that any ref ,rmer's
sophistry should be permitted at its
expense. The perpetuity of the State
demands the Immediate overthrow of
a system that is rapidly depopu!attng
it by the wholesale multiplication of
murder But the weakness of the sit
uation is found in the fact that often
a faultless logic is utterly inconsistent
with actual fact. That's the trouble
with the logic of our contemporary.
The fact is. and we challenge its de-
NAL; wherever the saloon is banished
crime decreases.
We happen TO have statistics, at
hand bringing Maine, o no-licenso
state, into comparison with Mas
sdehusetts, an adjoining license state
Boston, Mass, has high license and
stringent regulation. Portland, Me, is
under prohibition. Boston had 426 ar
rests for every 10000 of population
Portland had "a arrests for every 10. :
0G0 OF population; in prohibition Maine
there were IL prisoners III the peniten-
tiary for every f00o0 of the popnla
ton, while in high license Massachu-
sets there were 80
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-08-30
A Prohibition Syilogisn.

An editorial writer in the Richmond
virginian seems to be just a little bit
ga castle, in his treatment of the Rum
Trust argument. In answer to one oil
the statements such as the rum press
NJ Maine are daily intieting on the
pubIie--that Maine would have fewer
murders If prohibition We're abolished
this writer indicts the following
1--WE presume our contemporary IS
arguing from the records of licensed
cnn,mnnities where murder is one Of
tha lost arts. Alcoholic drinks tend,
as all scientists tell US TO compose
the mind. restrain the passions. ana
quicken all those processes that issue
in calm and sober judgment ne maui
who harbors any prejudice OF pessi''''
| or he who broods over wrongs, iahcled
or real, if he will but step into helsn-
| boring GROCERY and WOO the hiloiS
offices of Bacehus, will find sanity re-
| turning to mind, self mastery to Will
| and the sweet spirit of good VIII row
| ering over his heart. 1t is a great IN
stitution, this open saloon. The cont
munity should not only permit it, but
should substitute it as great puelie
influence in the prevention of crime
especially murder. It's a specific
against the virus of hate, from which
murder is often horn-and the regula-
ton of public order. That is the rea~
son why the law closes them in cleo
ton day, because it is day of more
or less excitement, and the open sa-
loon would kin all party enthusiasm. -
the quieting effect Of the alcohol would
turn an exciting election into the holt
day Of an old ladies home. That )
why the government always closes the
saloon in times of public riot, because
a few drinks of whiskey would so re-
strain passion and calm infiamed
minds that despised rights and liher-
ties could hardly arouse sufficient
courage ana zeal te fight for their own.
OF all the illogical arguments in
consistent with facts, we have ever
met in support Of the licensed saloon
this one is the limit The syllogism
would read about like this:
There is murder in Name
Prohibition obtains in Maine;
Therefore. prohibition produces muir
der
| Submit that proposition to any mas
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-08-30
A Successor to Senator Frye.

tkumI0fd rails 1l6les1
Our Democratic friends are using
up a good deal of printers ink and
energy all through the State in trying
to get Governor Plaisted to appoint
their particular candidate to fill the
vacancy caused by the death of Sem
ator Frye.
We would respectfully call the at
tention of our Democratic friends to
the fact that this is only mporary
appointment. it will expire with the
Legislature of 1913 as Senator trye's
term expires at that time; and that
the Legislature will elect his successor
The next Legislature will be Repub-
lican Legislature and any Democrat
who is elected now will only hold office
until the next Legislature. The Z. 5.
Senator elected by the next Legisla-
ture will be a Republican.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-08-30
He Did What II Said in the Bond,

He did what it said in the bond
But the bond said naught Of the helpful
hand
That might aid his struggling brother to
stand,
And he did what it said in the bond
He did what it said in the bond
Was not that enough The bond did not
say
Give thou to the traveller who crosses
thy way,
o give. when he needs 1t. thy sympathy
y word of sweet hope and of comfort
and eheeri
@ no it said nothing of that i'll the bond
He did all that it said in the bond.
God help us. We pray. in this journey Of
life,
When we meet in the midst of its suffer-
inS and strife
When we meet man to man where the
struggle Is rife
| To do more than II says in the bond.
| MARY Putnam Gilmore, in Boston
| Transcript.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-08-30
~

T0,, reasons dneot One
in
whit liquor n nosof
of the the
fight
opporunies would permit. l
in liquor
how organized labor has
state child labor .
the
to
will find that the boys girls of fathers
to drink
of those
parents are b. Lennon.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-08-30
An Electrical Discovery.


A discovery which, it is said, may
revolutionize electric lighting was
made public at Clifden. Ire. last week.
1t was announced by II. r. Spoorborg
of the British Thompson Houston
company that after three years re-
search work the company had sue
ceeded in producing tungsten in such
a form that il could be drawn into i
continuous wire one thousandth of an
inch in thickness and used in any
length or bent to any shape. AT the
same time its tensile strength had
been increased. Hitherto tungsten
has been producible only in short
lengths. The new discovery makes 1t
possible to use a continuous wire in
lamp. 50 that the risk of breakage is
reduced to q minimum and the life of
the lamp is considerably extended
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-08-30

III Philadelphia who makes this his
life.s work
1t is nonsense, argued Mrs. Armof.
to say that prohibition does not pay.
To show that II does she cited, at some
length, the experience of her home
state of Georgia, which went dry
during the year OF the paEic. Yet.
Notwithstanding that Georgiass cotton,
lumber turpentine and fruit markets
were seriously affected, and that all
revenue from license fees of course
ceased, there was not bank failure In
the entire state. while the public
treasury was in more substantial coii-
dition than in many years. She quoted
numerous merchants in Atlanta as
saying that the poorer people spent
what earnings they did have with the
tradesmen, rather than with the sa-
looms. thus enabling legitimate busi-
hess interests to weather the financial
storm. Then she quoted the expert
enees, during this same year. OF the
cities of Macon. Ga. and JacAsonviie,
F,a.-the former dry, the latter WEI
Macon's revenue from all legitimate
sources was normal or better. while
Jacksonyille's was sadly decreased.
The South is getting riclt faster
than anv part of the country de-
elared Mrs. Armor, land it contains
more prohibition than any part.
Casting aside figures. Mrs Arnlor
said she would leave 1t to the common
sense of her listeners-could any iIlsti-
tuition deriving its revenue in blood
uuney from the men and boys OF the
State be in any way a financial bene-
fit to the state? Suppose the proprle-
tors of some other commercial endeaV-
or should go to the officials of Maine
and say There are 10000 OF u.,
and we will give $500 each a year FOR
the mere privilege of doing business
we to furnish everything the State
nothing" Wouldn't the officials say
without Il moments hesitation
whats the matter with your ousi-
ness?''
Why" said Mrs. Armor. state rev.
cnue from the saloon is the biggest
goid-briek scheme in the history OF
the world"
Mrs. Armor told OF the evil ehectS
of alcohol upon the human system.
and drew some very eloquent word
pictures of the suffering it eauses-of
traffic Infinitely worse than the slave
traffic of the South. Taking up the
claim of many that the liquor question
doesn't belong in the constitution. she
said Take it out OF the constitu-
ton. and you take 1t from the people
and put 1t into the hands Of the poll
ticians." She argued that, with all its
faults OF enforcement prohibition does
prohibit; and In support of this she
quoted triumphantly statement
from the official organ of the
Maine Nom Partisan Self-Government
League. This was to the effect that
900 gallons of wlskey We're shipped
b. express last year into prohibition 4
territory--which. figured by popula.f
ton, would be less than two gallons
per capita. Government statistics,
however, show that the total consump-
ton per capita throughout the United
states is 2l.s6 gallons. Thus" she
said, Il prove by their own figures
that prohibition, even at It's worst,
is II times better than regulated IL
eense at its best
Mrs. Armor was frequently np-
planded. and her listeners seemed
deeply interested and impressed.---
Bangor News. 4aa#
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Can You Got Away From These2

The following facts are contributed
We recommend ii as being wholly
non partisan in purpose and Ifrefut-
able in presentation of conditions.
We urge kennebee Journal readers
to give 1t careful consideration and
pass il along. Here is the letter:
II is held by some that the state has
no right to prohibit the liquor traf-
lie because, forsooth. it would be an
interference with the natural and in
alienable right of each citizen. We
take issue with that claim, and will
cite the principles contained III the
Declaration of Independence, which
We believe apply
we hold these truths to be self eyi-
dent. that all men are created equal,
that they are endowed by their
Creator with certain inalienable
rights: THAT AMONG THESE ARE
LIFE, LIBERTY, AND THE PUR-
SUIT OF HAPPINESS. That to Sc
cure these rights governments are in
stituted among men, deriving their
Just powers from the consent of the
governed, and whenever any form OF
these ends, 1t is the right of the peo-
pie to alter or abolish it and TO insti.
tute a government, laying its founda-
ton on such principles and organic
ing its powers in such form as to
them shall seem most likely to at
feet their safety and happiness.
We feel safe in concluding that III
aslnuch as the life, liberty. and the
pursuit of happiness" are to be fes-
tered and protected by civil govern
ment the state is acting wholly with
in her rightful province in prohibit
ing business which in reality In
Nades the natural or inalienapie
rights of the citizen. 1t cannot be
successfully denied that the liquor
business is menace to life, liberty
and the pursuit of happiness.
Many claim that the arguments of
those who favor prohibition consist
largely Of sentiment. Not only do
the facts refute sueh claim. but de-
cisions of the United States Supreme
Court attest that the question Is one
of serious Importance. In the case 81
Crowley vs. Christensen QS7 u. s., So
the United States Supreme Court
held
The statistics of every state show
"a greater amount of crime and misery
attributable to the use of ardent spir
it's obtained at these liquor saloon
than To any other source"
Again. IT is undoubtedly true tlla
it is the right of every citizen of tn
United States to pursue any Lawful
trade, or business, under such restrie
lions ms are imposed upon all person
Of the same age, sex, and condition
There is no inherent RICH
IN citizen thus to sell intoxicating
liquors by retail. 1t is not privi
lege of citizen Of the state or of I
citizen OF the United States"e
In the case OF the state of kansa
US. zihoid & Haheiin. 12s u. S. Rep
s23-es2, the Supreme Court held
I'VE cannot shut out Of view Il
fact within the knowledge of all thu
the public health, the public moral
and the public safety may be endai
gered by the general use of intexieal
ing drinks"
The United States Supreme cou
has also held in License Cases
Howard 4s u. s.. 573-es2:-
IF a loss of revenue should aecrt
10 the United states because OF pr
Aibition) from diminished eonsumi
ton Of ardent spirits, she viii be
gainer thousand fold in the heaitl
<<s1S1n nsad ha r,nirlesS of the people
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Editor S Letter Box

me publication of letter In
TINS department is not To be taken
as an endorsement of its views by
tie hennebec Journal. This col
aihn Is maintained for the discus
sloii Oh matters of general public
interest when kept within bounds
OF reason and net of libelous or
abusive nature.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-08-30

The licensed saloon represents organized unrgheosne III
the community For the part saloon keepers inen
tiona and continual awbreakers Here only will they
operate and assist The saloon either and the
cooperaor with and feeder to, the gambling den and
bote The saloon the rendezvous of the dangerous ele
ments Of community There passions nlamed, crimes
conceived and panned and from them they often carried
out IS srts. s..#f ssti5 Aesfafssf
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POINTED PARAGRAPHS.

/ Anyway rolling stone scatters, the
dust.
Genius is more plentiful than plain
common sense.
1t takes woman with a hyphenated
name to cut dash. /