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State election. He thanked me for my
good advice" and subsequently an
nounced he would not come till after
the State election.
Probably the national speakers who
come into the State VIII mention pro-
hibition only TO protest they are not
here to NEEDLE with that issue, and
will strive to fool voters into thinking
that Democrat vote will mean the
same in September IL would mean in
November but only fools will be
focled by such sophistries Every
sane man in the State knows, and ey-
cry visiting speaker ought to know.
that If the Democrats win in Septem-
Der IL means promise to repeal pro-
hibition, and will be so blazoned by
the liquor press to the ends of the
earth And let no visiting statesman
think he can escape responsibility in
his ewn campaign for reelection.
wherever he lives, by pleading the
baby act, that he did not know the
election was loaded
Ii is contemplate thing to make it
necessary for us 10 take up this issue
in partisan way, when it ought TO
be discussed as a principle. Especial
~ mean is it, because this moral is
sue. on which every preacher in Maine
should speak, cannot be handled in
the pulpit without embarrassment.
However. preachers should refuse TO
be turned aside by TINS trick like that
of Cambyses, who knowing the
Egyptians holding cats sacred. would
rather surrender than kill cat, arm
"A HI
spears and swords but with crates of
cats and so won. No doubt Democrat
politicians will think TO compel the
preachers to surrender by shouting
politics II they venture to defend the
chief glory of Maine against the
liquor trust and its allies. But preach
ers should fearlessly proclaim that
whatever voters may do III November
on the real issues of party politics.
the straight out declaration of the
Republican platform for prohibition
and the fearless and unanswerable
argument for it by the Re-
publican candidate for Governor, off
against the equally explicit stand for
repeal Of the Democrat platform and
candidate renew the issue of last year
and that every friend of prohibition
should on September vote for Re-
publican Governor ana Legislature.
For Law ard Enforcement.
A strong appeal to vote for the can
didates of the party that has clearly
declared for law and enforcement was
made by Mrs. l.. M. N. Stevens, pres
ident of the National Woman's Chris
tian Temperance Union, who presided
at the rally. She said in part:
When we were here, last year, at the
temperance meeting we were in the
midst of great campaign. 1t is known
the world around that Maine kept its
prohibitory law. need not call at
tention to the reluctance of those in
power to admit this; or the calling of
a Special session Of the Legislature,
no doubt at the behest of the liquor
trade. of the encouragement given to
violators of the law by those high in
authority whose duty it is to take care
that the laws are faithfully executed
to the fact that the Secretary of State
was one of the speakers at the Inter
national Brewers Congress which met
in Chicago.
Today, the question which confronts
No 10 TA1it ittfi iJc Cictleu DIS GflteI OF
ficers Of the State who condemn pro-
hibition and who declare for "a local
option license law in its place--men
who consider the temperance question
of too little consequence to be treat
ed as a State question and who would
make it each year football in every
locality--men. who would through To-
cal option make Portland and other
cities distributing centers of liquor
openly and legally sold for all the ru-
raj districts-men who would like to
have the cities control the State in
stead of the State controlling the cit
les and all other towns
Ask the mothers of Maine boys in
what localities they would like to have
their sons protected from the tempta-
tion Of the~1egaiized saloon and the
mothers would reply Sin every place,