Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1919-01-25

an suffrage. If YOU don't take t
straight you'll get it eventually. In
Illinois they saw it coming and they
took it. He said he could understand
the opposition of women from sincere
and earnest men. Take our home
mother controlled as tar as everythns
about the home was concerned. For
the last IS years Mr. Robins said he
had lived with 900 people piled on
top of each other Mothers there IN
Chicago don't control anything. The
air. the water, the food, the street
cleaning, the moral government. are
all controlled BY others. The only way
for that mother to control her home
environments is to give her the right
to exercise right at ballot as the mother
of the people
He saiG he was looking forward TO
the free education system, the de
velopment of craftsmanship in pub
nc schools and TO have producing
manhood and womanhood as we'll a.
academic in the schools. He said he
never was a Prohibitionist. But when
the liquor interests said we could not
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would not give in. any more than
he would give in to the Standard Oil
A sering democratic religious life
is what Mr.. Robins expressed himself
as believing in. Democracy cannot be
saved. neither can society, without
spiritual sense at heart of man and
woman. Will political order save the
world" Did il in Germany? Mi
Robins spoke of a trip to Germany
and the study he had there of Ger
man efficiency. There the learned
ones regarded religion as something
to occupy the minds Of the Old and
The inefficient.
Mr.. Robins touched lightly upon
the Russian situation. saving that he
did not talk freely upon the question
because of reasons. The only answer
to the Russian question is q demo
cratic social order, a government just
enough for men to die for Force can
not meet it. We tailed in Russia, said
Mr. Robins. The Russian returned
immigrant who had seen America al
her worst. her tenements. her rotten
police circles and her sweat shops
went hack home and told of such
The fairminded men there said they
didn't think they wanted Il Repub-
lie like that for where they got rid
of one ear they would have 90 cars
The Russian church betrayed the
people 200 years. They believed in
God but not in the church. They
say they haze the church. They sub
stitute Karl Marx for Christ. They
are willing to suffer for Soviet Rus
STA which is economically impossible
end morally wrong. Mr.. Robins
spoke feelingly of the Russian stu
alton and gave the impression that
he had seen much and learned much
during his II months stay there.
The meeting was brought to close
by the singing Of two verses of Am
erica. led by Jeff Smith of Watervillc
One of the noticeable features in con-
nection with the banquet was that ev-
cry department of the State House was
represented either By the head of thai
department or one or more represent
atives. This is the first time that this
had taken place. when the members II
the State House working forces and
the members of the House and the Sen.
an occasion, and it only points out
another way in which the many things
which were heard Friday evening will
have a broader circulation throughout
the State