The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1915-09-30
In MINNEAPOLIS.
Hrssses Wet" Meeting and Proclaims
Prohibition in Maine Failure.

,srssses Wet Meeting and Proclaims
Prohibition in Maine a Failure.
+, TIE EDITOR OF THE JOURNAL. We are
.rssidents of Maine, having lived there all
ives up to a few years ago, and we are
.a wit. Indignation that Mr.. Hanson, mayor
yOuF city (ex-mayor) should come to our
h and give lecture for the Vets such as he
rs in the Auditorium here last night. en-
. 81 clippings from the MINI neapolis Journal
the Minneapolis Tribune, the two princi-
papers of our city. We vote Oct. 4th to
snd make Minneapolis dry, and any facts
can send US that could be used or publish
D the papers here before that day would be
! recia,ed. We have always believed in pro-
: tron and we love the dear old State of
.rs X.
! Minneapolis, Minn., Sept. 26, 1915.
4 gsyoT Edgar F. Hanson of Belfast, Me-. a
In where the prohibition law is largely null
Y I'D arrived today to speak for the wets at
I; Auditorium tonight. Congressman Jacob
Aseber Of st. Louis, another wet orator and
liter Known to Minnesotans, will be the other
baker,
come here" said Mayor Hanson, "simply
EjJness in the case of the People VS.. Pro-
hilton was invited by the president of
| m BUSINESS Mems Educational league and if
ysQly ID this city doesn't think l am quail
70 sl. ak on this subject let him come to
I. meeting tonight and shoot questions at
f- r..r5ft hot thar L
E..el because it sometimes brings out points
cs aFglication that l wouldn't know about
think about.
itaye iived all my life except three years
i Name and those three years | spent in a
I gs scl,y where license regulation is the rule
+ 4 prohibitionists had told you the truth
Il Maine you would never have been able
get half slgners enough for your county
Aa2l petition.
The dream of every right thinking man in
aBas sa7 Knows conditions, and most of them
4 sot the time when Maine can get out from
H. iHs Thing and go b. ok to local option
II liTG you are planning to discard. Then
lesi n will solve itself so far as Maine is
f2e-1ed- The small towns and rural commu-
gl remain dry. The big towns and
& where the stuff is sold anyway, and
sf yea cannot enforce "a prohibition law,
ADOPT nigh license and for the first time
lFaF!r SO years they will have cha nee to
asur the evils that this prohibition curse
4 kFa spun Us.
lle aaders of this prohibition movement
you at prohibition is successful in Maine
is So then why did their own crowd,
II INNS rs of Portland and vicinity, pass
Sas4toH- urging, not the wiping out of the
#rs sale Of intoxicants but the public and
r. violation of the liquor provisions of the
sstEutIrn.
tel you the saloon may have its train of
H. but me evils following prohibition are a
81rsd times worse. What, for instance, is
teyent men from having liquor in their
r. under this law, if they can get it even
Maine And when you have it in your
H. how are you going to keep it away from
n children? Why, in Maine l have seen
III BOYS who dubbed together and actually
8a'ied Jug of whisky just as the men do in
a State and were found SO dead drunk that
Il! were sick for a week.
4 now Would you like to have liquor placed
Il ae homes of all the drinking men in Min
8spos 10 tempt the sons of those drinkers
Il Il anybody should have an inherited taste
Il 4uor are the most likely to have it?"
lie other clipping, summary of his
Sh in the Auditorium, we cannot find
for n this issue.