Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1918-02-18
ELOQUENT ADDRESS
By Almon S. Bisbee Fea-
ture Of Willard Me-
mortal

rial service was held Sunday afternoon
at O'Clock in the Universalist church
under the auspices of the Gardiner w.
C. T. L. Music was furnished by a choir
Mrs. A A. Walsh soloist and Perley Nc
Master cornetlst.
After prayer and scripture reading,
Mrs. +. l.. Weeks, the unions president
introduced Almon s Bisbee of Portland
who delivered an eloquent, instructive
and encouraging address. The speaker
has been for a long time identified with
temperance work and knows the condi-
tons and opportunities that the cause
has for success as we'll as anybody in
the country.
Mr.. Bisbee opened by saying that ee
was proud that he was an American cit
zen He told Of how he had been at
the nations capital as a member OF the
committee of 50 and attended the ma
tional convention of the w. c. T. L, held
ia that city in the month of December.
The ". e.. 4. L. is the mother Of the
great forces that are now working so
steadily and SO surely to bring about
tional constitutional prohibition said he.
When attending the convention he was
impressed by the fact that - per cent
Of the delegates were past middle life
and had hair which was whitening. A:
the National House and Senate he was
Impressed that the converse was the case
and that 10 per cent of the members o.
the House and Senate had not yet reach
ed middle life. Tit general drift of the
speeches Of both senators and representa-
/ Nod
lessons OF sobriety and temperance early
IN lie and that their lives had been
moulded and shaped ny white ribbon
mothers. and this was the reasonable
hope that national constitutional prohibi-
ton would he successful and that white
ribbon mothers have raised and trained
men vino will seal the doom Of John
Barley corn
our country owes q lot to men and
women who have had visions, and
among them are Frances f. Willard
and Neal Dow. Miss Wizards entire
temperance career was the result of her
Willingness to respond to a vision and d
cali He referred to William j. organs
speech before that National convention,
both Mr.. Bryan and his wife being
children Of white ribbon mothers. The
principles of temperance taught them
! by their mothers were brought into the
! home they established and their chill
, dren were taught them. When they
! went to Washington they took these
| principles with them and now all
! Washington is on Il grape juice diet.
our present great war has FASTENED
National prohibition. Mrs. l.. NJ l..
Stevens prophesied that by 1920 Ameri-
ca would be saloonless and the indica-
tons today are that this wilt become
true. Valuable information was
brought out by the hearing at WASH
ington. Brewers, who two or three
years ago were using as an argument
in support of their trade that they
were furnishing a market for the grain
product of a vast army of farmers or
the great Northwest now claim, almost
pathetically that their breWeries con-
sumo but very little of the food supply
of grain, AS a matter Of fact last year,
said Mr.. Bisbee enough grain was con-
Sumed by the brewers to make eleven
and one -half million loaves of bread
annually Housewives are asked TO
save the crumbs and brewers are al
lowed to use grain for the manufacture
of drink, when we are told that ever!
ounce is needed to win the war. Trans
portatiOn lines are needed for food sup
plies and coal. yet every PINT OF peer
breWed and transported uses gust SO
much space and just so much coal.
schools and churches have been asked
to close their doors and in some cases
compelled to do SO. yet the breweries
and saloons are still in operation.
Lastly. conservation of man power Is
needed and each man ruined by strong
drink INJURIES the caues of democracy.