Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-03-21
Mrs. L. M. NJ. Stevens.

Mrs stevens SAN
4 few weeks ago in Statuary Hall
under the dome OF our nations Capt.
tol | stood beside the marble statue Of
Frances T. Willard. Men and women
were gathered there from many see
tons of our country and some from
over the sea. The Niee-President Of
the United States and the Superinten-
dent of the capitol had given permits
sion for the service. commemorative
of the life and work Of Frances +.
Willard the founder of the World $
w. e. r. l.. the only woman whose
statue has been placed in our ma
TONS Nalhalla, When Miss Willard
WAS considering giving up her brilliant
educational career. for she was already
president Of a Womans college. in or
der to east her LOT with the temper
anec reformers she came to Maine to
see Neal Dow and Ia study conditions
under prohibition as compared with
license as she well knew il in her
home state of Illinois, and her decis-
ION is well known and she became one
of the foremost advocates of prohibit
ton 1t was she who proposed that
March 10Th. the birthday of Neal Dow,
lilt fdlAbi III 1 ibllAItlpIl, ol''h'' -
designated us Prohibition Rally DAY
During this week temperance meet
ings will be held all over our land and
in other lands for the presentation of
the great underlying principles Of the
temperance movement total abstin-
enee and prohibition-but there will
this year he mere prohibition rallies
than ever before.
In Maine the day is of peculiar sig
nificance. Temperance reformers have
much to cheer in these days. There is
more total abstinence sentiment and
practise, and more prohibition Senti-
ment and territory than ever before.
An increasing number of business cor
porations are greatly assisting the
temperance cause by requiring total
abstinence of their employees. Nine
ty-fiVe per cent. of the rail-
roads require total abstinence of
those i'm their employ, and early
this month eleven leading rail
roads operating in Illinois announced
that they had ceased to sell liquor on
dining or buffet ears or any other part
of their trains The roads voluntarily.
took this action thinking il not right
III sell ilttlpl III ttlbitbitlpll ltitl lOi
through some of which their roads
passed. Among those which took this
action were such roads as the Illinois
Central Chicago Great Western. At
Gibson, Topeka x Santa F'e, Milwau-
kee & st. Paul.
Scientists are declaring that alcohol
is a poison and should be so classed
and so treated. Charitable and cor
regional workers are coming to recog-
nze that strong drink is the prolific
cause Of dependency, delinquency and
crime, hence we find on the notable
Appeal TO Maine To keep its prohbi-
tory law. among the hundreds of dis
tingushed people. the names of Jane
Adams. Maude Ballington Booth. DIR.
Edward Janney and DIR. Adolph Myer
A mighty conflict is wagng not
alone in our country but in many
countries. between the liquor power
and the Temperance forces Recently
Miss Gordon and | spent several
weeks in Washington. d. C. We par
ticipated in the hearings on the Bills
Ito prohibit interstate commerce in
Intoxicating liquors in certain eases.
The object of this bin is to prevent
sending liquors into prohibition terri
tory to be sold in violation of the law
| can give no better illustration &c
show who are for prohibition and its
enforcement. and who are against it
than by describing who appeared be-
fore the House and the Senate Judici-
airy Committees at the hearing. Plead
ing for the enactment of the law