Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-03-25

| be useless for me or perhaps anyone
else in iris body to answer, if we had
all the time from now to eternity to
answer.
Mr. HANSON of Waldo: Mr.. Chair
man, | somewhat regret that l have
entered into the work of your DELHI
eratiNe body under conditions that
have perhaps injected me into the
forefront Of the battle before | get
used to the smell of the smoke. But
! aa pleased to know that the able
senator from Aroostook county, tall
and straight, physically and mentally
as the pines of his own lands. receives
some rest for his. gray matter, this
/ forenoon, while l discussed the mat
| ter under consideration.
He said himself that it was restful,
if / remember rightly and he thought
! | wandered far from the subject, and
| it carried him to the islands of the
sea So we were both travelling in the
realm Of imagination. | tried to keep
down TO the matter germane before
me and TO give some reasons why this
amendment to the constitution should
be submitted to the people. 1t cannot
4, be railroaded when it strikes them,
/
| and months to read ana ponder in
their own homes, they will come pref
~ near knowing when they come to
the ballot box whether they approve
o. this amendment to the Constitution
/ or not.
would fain believe that my peers
are better qualified to judge of what
they want collectively in the State of
l,te 1e.A
body There is one thing about this
discussion that TO me seems passing
strange, and that is that there should
be such a strenuous objection to the
people deciding what they want. How
long have we had them under guard
ianship? Has it been a fact that
/ through the years past the Legisla-
lures of Maine have looked upon the
citizens of this country as their pro-
/ tegcs, incapable of handling their own
business? | think not. and l think
they think 50 no longer.
+. ! wish to reply very briefly to few
of the propositions presented by the
! honorable senator from Aroostook
county He deprecated my reference to
the Garden of Eden and the good
book 7 did it with more or less rever-
ence. Of course all of us do not have
a development of reverence equally,
+ but my bump is somewhat respect
able | did not intend to say anything
that would east reflections upon the
people / simply called attention to the
first nrohibitory law and the results
To he sure, l learned that the respect
ed senator has read his Bible, which
pleased me very much. And he learned
that God did not inf1iet the penalty
right away. That has been a mooted
question for theologians for long
/ time. and I am not prepared to say
/ that 7 can settle that question. 1t IS
| too far removed.
| II is a fact that God did not issue
any license, so far as we know, pht
| the representatives of God since lhat
time heve been issuing licenses TO SIN
| in one large ecclesiastical body and
| that thev think they have rlght 10
de so / do not question. Tina. Is cut
of my line of thought. | Will say that
| when God gave his commandments 10
| Moses He did not put any prohibition
| in them against the drinking of stm-
| Mating liquors. | do not know why
He didn't put il in. As time ran on
and the world got into a condition so
| that the Lord thought the best thlnS
| for Him to do was to clean off the ola
rare. merely save a little seed, and He
| had a flood. and He selected Moan, l
supnese the best representative, ana
Noah nIanteC a vineyard after ne got
over the wet spell, and as soon as ne
could get enough juice from the
pranes he commenced to celebrate
And never heard that God reprl-
nanded him. Later on they got to do
inc Things in Sodom-werse than Au-
gnsta-and the LORD said He
v,o,,,a wine them out. SO He told Lot
10 get out. Lot said: Il am not the on
| 10 good fellow here; l can find some
more, The Lord knew better, nut lie
told him to try it, Finally He got
down To Lot, who was the only pep
BILE on the beach. anyway, the Lor"
told Lot to get ont and he knew
enough to go. Fire ana orlIlStp4iV
came down and DESTROYED the eles,
Mrs Lot had little CURIOSITY AM
she was turned into salt. Nhal oi'
Lot do? He went on a-httie anu 'he"
GOT drunk The senator from AfcoS
took will corroborate me in that.
think if we could only live together
while we would agree. My friend from
Aroostook county brought up the IS
land of Malaga. That appealed TO ms
vision while / wandered in oliier
lands. Certainly that condition was
not any way desirable. Those people
lived in very filthy novels; they dluh
know what the term marriage meant
They had terrible diseases They We're
degenerates of the most terrible type
10 he found, and it is wonder theF
ever could have existed. The Governor
and Council decided to buy that IS
land, and / have no doubt the senator
from Aroostoek would call that a good.
thing. I Go not think the senator real
Nv meant to take this as a basis OIL
comparison I am feeling little mite
liberal toward my fellow-men ana
sometimes / think they do not mean
what they saw when they put a bad
meaning on things. I would not take
these people to compare with any oth-
or portions of Maine When struck
q condition like Malaga island
would nut in the strong arm OF protec-
ton. \