Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-11-01

with Christ than that.
II ask every fair-minded reader,
lover of drink or total aDstainer,
who ever passed by the doors OF tne
old-time saloon, with It's doors anu
it's out-coming sounds OF ripaiory
and rowing: Is 1T decent 10 mentioH
Christ in the same breath with the
saloon?
II ask every women VINO has ever
sat in the back room of saloon,
who has been debauched and de-
graded and corrupted by It's over
flowing iniquity: Did you ever see
ANYTHING of Christ in saloon!
II ask every man who has stooo
before the bar and passed over II
the dimes and the quarters anu tne
dollars that were earned IN the
sweat of the brow and the breaking
of bodies. much as you love IL ana
much as you desire it's return: Dio
you ever find anything Oh CHRIST III
the saloon? -
"And l ask the mothers ana .ne
wives and the daughters ana tns
sisters who after sleepless nignts anu
avs of torture have ventured to go
ont and plead with father and nus
band and son and brother to come
ont of the saloon and come nome:
mid Won ever see anything or Chrlst
in the saloon?
"And L ask the homegrown voters
erstwhile little children, when lne
saloon held sway, when you "ele
hungry and ragged and coIu cry
for bread and you were sent out 70
get Daddy or GOD save U.S.
n, Their out of the saloon: Dld you
ever see anything that remlnoeo
YOU of Christ in saloon! an
"All and one, you know you u.u
not. and you know in your HeaIlo
that any man who uses the haine
of Christ to restore the saloon' WaiA'
mighty close to blasphemy.
"You will notice that Mr.N aisIl'
in speaking of those VINO opposo
tbe return of the saloon, dubs them
reformers. Well, discrediting names
do not disturb those who speak lot
the truths sake and not for the at
tainment of office.
"This honorable gentleman mas
been par eminence, the pooze-pali
ner-fearer in this campaign. ~
nlatform, by mail and through tne
pubIic press he has stressed his new
1so-calIed) Declaration OF moe
incidence. Mr.. Gaston's latest APP
pears in the papers and concluoes
with: Keep the church out OF po,i-
tics. Through the pubic press lne
only way open to me. L peg 70 sas
to Mr.. CASTOR: This Is the Ch''eu
States-Not Mexico.
eyH1be, T became a. churchman did
not surrender my citizen rights ana l
refuse to surrender them now. 90
NOT speak for any church. speak as
a citizen of this Commonwealth ana
no man shall constrain the liberty
with which It's constitution clothes
me. GU anil your party MADE thls is
sue-I did not-and under the WOLF
cry of Politics you shall not prevent
me from frustrating your attempt 10
unleash against my people the strip
ed beast of the saloon'-if any vote
and the vote of those VINO Ioiiow me
can kill 1t. Nor am I forgetful OF the
fact that the enforcement of the law
in this city of Fall River is In the
hands of the police force who are
governed and controlled by COM
mission appointed, governed and
controlled by the governor OF this
Commonwealth.
"And when my people appeal to me
for protection against the bootlegger
and the moonshiner whittier would
turn for help with the governor. the
real head of our police, the wettest
of the wet? And If Mr.. CASTOR is SO
anxious to keep the church out of
politics, why does he. in his own
statement, offend against his own
precept by summoning to the aid of
his course clergymen of various de-
nominations?
"And now from the second plank of
the Democratic platform: Close The
Mills
Here, surely, I shall be charged
with talking politics, for there are
diStinO11iSh he
tween economics and politics. no
more than they can between morals
and politics. However. there are
some charges that I may logically
hope to escape.
Il think no man will charge me
with subserviency of the mill-owners
whom Mr.. Walsh honors with the
title of industrial barons.' In my
opinion this demagogic appelation is
not justified in fact. No man of this
generation, I say 1t under the COR
rection of boasting. has more fear
lessly faced the mill men than have
|. l have scorned them for their in
justices. / have denounced them for
their unfairness and I have held
them up to public scorn and ridicule
when Mr.. Walsh as governor was
seeking their support by appointing
their unfit friends to office.
i have no brief for Mr.. Butler or
his associates in or out of Office. am
insistent in my belief that a great
crime was committed when Fall River
and New Bedford were purposely made
sole cotton cities, the lowest wage
paying industry in the world.
Il have given every dollar that I
have ever saved to build and main |
tain nurseries for the care of the chill |
dren of parents who work in the mills
Tor an insufficient wage. and no mill !
corporation, but one, has ever offered !
TO help me with penny My life is |
with the worker, to sustain him when |
ne is right and to correct him, If l !
can, when he is wrong.
And I say to the workers in Fall |
Rlver and New Bedford: When any |
candidate for office tells you that the |
present depression in the cotton in |
dustry is due to faulty administration
ana that III you Will elect him he will |
soon remedy all your wrongs. he is |
teillng you what is economically and !
lndustrlally false; he is not dealing
with you honestly; he is indulging in !
political clap-trap. He knows very /
Wen that the man most vitality inter |
eeeeo IN keeping cotton mills operat
ing is the man who owns them and
VINO loses more money when his mills
a. ciosed than when they are operated
at slight loss.
And yet men plead for your vote
.'nu ior mine with promises of lower
,1,ill anu unrestricted immigration. |
", heI our mills were idle and the
, pIeacheries at Dighton and East Ware
nam We're hlled with Embellishments
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