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“We re 1' with_ confidence and pride to th neml rccord‘ of the Republican party in support of the 1 policy of prohibiting the traffic in intoxicating liquors, the wisdom and efficiency of which legislation in promoting the moral and ma- terial interests of Maine have been demonstrated through the pracr tical‘annihilation of that trafic in a large portion of the state, and we faVOr such legislation and such enforcement of the' law as will secure to every portion-of our ter- vThe abgve resolution was' passed in Maine in 1882 by the largest Republican convention which had ever been held in that state. It was held in Portland, and more than thirteen hundred delegates were present. ritoâ€"ry, freedom from that traffic. We further recommend the sub- mission to the people of a consti- tutional amendment.” It is a little significant that just about the same time Mr; H. H. Beater, president of the Beer Brewers’ Congress, said: T‘The stints of‘ Maine has now disap- peared altogether from the list of beer-producing states.” And yet we are told that “Prohibition don’t prohibit.” “Yoti 6311’de it that way.” “The time has not come.” etc., 'etc., etc. ‘ 1 ‘ It happens, by the way, that} the prohibitory law of Mainegmali passed ‘in 1851. There was no: Republican party at that time. But we are told, neverthelesgéthat the republican party has given us all the temperance legislation we have. That party claims to be- lieve in license. That is their matter. We do not complain any more than we complain beeause the Democratic party belieee in free silver coinage at the ratio of 16 to 1. No more should either party complain of ushecause We do not believe in either pfinciple. Free Whisky or High Line-u. , The.- charge has aways been made by the republicans that the democrats are in favor of" tree whisky. We have never seen any particular evidence of . that fact; nevertheless, grunting'it to be true, we are disposed to be. lieve that the democrats are the more consiefenl of thehtwo. 'It is always safe to be governed "by principle Whether in dealing‘with our neighbors or in' matters of politics. > The liquor traffic is right or it is wrong. If it is right' why should it be taxed at all, or any more ‘ than the sale of sugar or tea or flour? If it is wrong,‘how‘ can taxing it possibly make it statesman When the Pilgrim {others leaded. On New England’s rocky than. Same toes Were all around them. Toll and danger were helmet But their helm vele all «and. And they worked with one round. And they conquered in the mule For they, trotted m the bout Ameryemofceueleucoulns. Felrndfertllegrewthehnd: ‘l‘henflxorreedy Englhhrynnt Souhttowreethlrom’thelrhmd. Buttheeeherdyaompflnhor _ Mtheplowtowieldtheword. And they conquered m the battle For theytruuedinthe Lord. . But a min wee on their banner. Slavery ruled with cruel hand. And the wall of thoee ln bondage Could be heerd acro- the land. Then there came a fearful struggle. Precious blood wheel); poured. . And the aptlves‘ chain: were broken For they trusted in the Lord. Now for temperance we Ire fighting. And the foe is fierce and strong. _ Dealing shame and death and rum: , Rum has ruled the land too long. Then arise and help or fight it, Use the ballot. notthe “0rd. ' And we know thlt we will conquer For we' re trusting in the Lord / Tasting In the A. 5.1;. w" Rosecrans. I“. able and‘ prominent of Vermont, now gone; once called the iquor‘ traflic . a “gigantic crime 0 crimes. But crime is the via ltiOll of human law, just as sin is he violation of ;God’s law. TThe able sens: yr” to, whom we refer was a etsum l supporter oi the Republican p2 ty, andzthe Be» publican party en’ Lorsee and pre~ enumbly believes u licensing the liquor business. 7 A ., ‘ How the sent or should call the liquor trsflic . crime when it is legalized by hi evil-party, we mover ~ could ‘ qv iite understand. iWitLout the le ital sanction we %could understand :it, for in com- mou law it has )een decided a uui’ssnoeiaud sul ect to abate as such. But it has ‘ been said as a matter of'.policy '9, should tax it very high in 0rd r to better regu- late it, but main '1} yet to find a man who does In ation oughi t6 0 teotion, but} as a believe every long eiperience. made any bones: tent eifort to thf nlate the liquor“ ,traflic has foam ‘all license law' protectivé of th liquor business. Hon. John- A Dix when. gave: nor of the stat of New Yorl said “ihtempex 81108 is the up do pbted source; four-fifths of a the crime, pan] erism and dome: 'tic misery in tt state.” ' Every day hi: tory confirms tb charge. We ( nut hesitaite 1-. state that. t1 traflic has not 01 single redeemir quality. It wouf be dificult to fix: any other indn try (if the li'qm trafic may I called an indu' try) which tak-‘ raw material value and tur out of it a man factnred articl- otigingl, and m a beverage is'c wane than valv. factored articl-x inferior to the originul, and ml far as it is used as a beverage is'c ncerned is vastly worse than val; alesa. How then, ‘ vé ‘aa'k, 'can that which the hibl: ,and so eminent a statesman as Lenator Morrill, to say nothing bin, host of others, equally eminen , all of‘ whom de- clure it morally wrong, bow 03m it we ugh, be mac 3 right by license? Will some 3ouest republican who believes :3 l license ”(and we doubt not thutvflionainds of them honestly believ in it) tell us how this can be.‘ ’9 may be wropg in our polities 3 opinions. If 60, we oughtjo kl w it, “and we ask in all sincerity ;o_ be put_ right, if ' A Pod Adviser. “Father Em‘ ravor Clark" read the letter from ;he American .Am- baééador, the Lion. Joseph Cho- ate, who was Do occupied 'with serious diplom .tic‘ business to at- tend the meetir 3;, as he had prom- ised and hoped *Mr. Choate un- derstood that ( hristinn Endeavor stands for ch) ‘stian citizenship, that it is’ form ’r‘opposed to the ;efihre‘wrong'. ’L‘et is hav7e the tidth. - ' ‘ if he has ever ,, earnest, persia- vttle or even reg- laeen decided I act to abate as" ibéon said u a '0 should tax it I to better regu- 'e yet to find a , admit that tax- rty with it pro; nattei‘ of fact We )rohibitionist of or should call , crime when it owiij party, we Eite understand. ful sanction we .it, for in com- saloon, the gambling don, the_ brothel and'every other iniquityk that it stands for tsmpsrance, for law and order, forcreatlng a cigar; furs, political atmosphereâ€"â€" his word, for ‘righteomeaa,’ and that it does all this not by allying itself,with a political party, but by iattempting through the clear o-mscienoas of its individual memo bet! to permeate and infinence_all' parties and all communities. He trusted that the great convention; might help toward the accom- plishment of their aim. ' The idea of Christian Endeav- orers going to Joseph Cboate, that old political warhorse. for advice. He is one. of the many opposed, to saloons, gambling dens and brothels, but also opposed to using 'nuy instrument against them but “atmosphere." Great is atmosphere.â€"-C. M. Mather, in The'New Voice. ‘ Montgomery county Prohibiâ€" tiouists held a convention at Clayksville, T1311». August 11. 1900.. ’ M It Works. Under authority of an act passed by the Haunt-haunt; leg- islature of 1894. the Bureau of Statistics of Labor has been en- gaged in a thorough investigation of the relation of tbi» liquor tmific to pauperism‘; crime and insanity. One interesting branch of the bureau’s investigation related to the a for drunkenness land The license cities and town showed 36.24 arrests for drunken new to evéry 1,000 of the popn- Intion. The no~lioense communi. ties shamed 9.94. arrest: to every 1,000.. The arrests for chosen other than drunkenness here 22.34 to each 1,000 of the population in th'é license towns and cities. In for the crimes in license and no- license cities and .towns. Of the 358 citieq and towns of the state, there mes-153 which were under the lies _ policy during the'year; and 2 which were under no- license, while there were 40 which owing to a change of policy..w9re partly under license and partly under tic-license. The first group (contained oneohalf of ’the total population of the state. their policy from lioé ac pg no- lieepoé with she bllow a; malt. In Hum-hill the-non :2 number of attests for drunk uneu per month under license ms 81.68. under nae-license 213.50. In Lynn finder license 315. n da- no-li- mouse 117.53. In Mel ".1, under license 20.12, under nq-lic use 13.25. In Pittsfivld. umlur Vli- canola 93.25, under ‘Io-liccnse 315.75 and iii. Salem. In that license 140.50, under no-liceu‘ e 29.03. Thefie m fact. that haw ”om-3 ing in favor of the American‘ license saloon. W. 0. Tubal“. um:- u- nu- out in». Anwtof congre- puued on. March 1st. 1875, auttoriws the President to mnlg In ad pnhlish regulations for the "urn y. Undnr thlt law President H, yen tinned the {alloying order: ’ ‘ Executive Minion ‘Wuhing- ton, Feb. 22, [BBLâ€"'1 'p the‘ see. real" fof Wu:â€" other posts of the urg Tte‘hw of 1375 h' gum-rm repealed or let unit 7- by white- queut legislation. '1 hen-fore the power of the pied gut n 90m- nnuder in chief is ! ill tbuoiute. ofcoagrfluudtt lav-ofdic m.-_nlluteprmmof themblic. 1111890ij Indian act relating to the arm conuim this provininu. '2‘ u alcoholic liquors, beer or wine ahall be bold or applied to the nlisted men in any canteen (¢ chauge)or putts-dc atom. or in any room or building or am :gnrriwn or mafia" post in any ”air or ter- ritory .in whinh the ,ale of aloo- holie liquors, hat-r 0 :Wine in pro. hihibd by lnw.’ x The attention of Secretary Al. gar as well as Pmitl out McKinley mulledwthinnc :of congru- whon drinking calm ma beg“ to be established in (my camp; Neverthelns, Secret .ry Alger Al. lowed the canteen: to be nub. fished not only in m where licence law- man in (dune, but in mm eonmry to In local luv, this knowingly Viol ting the net: lam. m :19! license o-licen: e 29 .133 u that have noth- of the -Ameri¢an W. 0. TIOIAS In vaw injul vice. the liqn‘ era pd oififlir lighter! the ”Major war at, I,“ not “it WI; and» any to- . "pop-é to the. prom-u. but ch.- ummdmmaamum . Md Radius-thew diflmuul 0e gq no- between Wflqu and m" a; result. went occupant of the whin- ge number how. at last no Igu- u the'l'iquur uueu per Me in the army iloouoerm-(I. m 81-33» wsdw mm- In Lyn.“ HOB. N, M. Hubble, judgc- (If der n0~h- the «igbth judicial amino: 1.,” .)f.l,|l.lndé'l)' in Fu‘ng a ”nuance 0909 sumo “9' “' “bf liquor dealers for violafion of tha ‘undi-r 1" prohibitory- laws of the suite said 30-110mm “You who stand before Hn e at the f, fort- and o! the . “YOI! Ibo‘ohld before Hu- court for aentence are in «Vt-r} mailman mnrdenm, and you are within the spirit, if not flu latter guilty of panda-shut. fl r the law any: that whoever acctâ€"hr ate! the that“! (If I. hum-n ht mg 11111:!th in gutlty of the ( time. You «in maintain the appear. anon of reapochbility. but how wally leptons and acmfuluus you are inwardly. Theruiu. puv. ‘erty, and idlennaa. whiéh you an inflicting’ upon “1'. community dcclare aa from the housemps: You ave living in ‘idleoéa'a and eating tin! based of orphans um. ered with widow's was; you are stealthily killing your victima and murdering die peace and infinity of the community. thereby-won. vetting happy indmriona hours into ninety, poverty. and rigs. Anxiou- wives and mothers watch and pray in turn nightly with (la-ohm hurt: for the com- ing home cf your victim, whom you are luring with‘ wiles and smilelol thedevil into midnight dehnchety." Wu Judge Babb-.11 comet? Did be top highly color the pic». tore? We believe every observing and “prejudiced pawn: wilt any the Judge mu correct. That he did not state the mutter in any too strong terms. What then? Sail we mtheuatixe the legalinod sa- loon keeper? Eu be not pnid his money for the privilege, and so long as he heepswithintbe let: her and spirit of the hi does it become christian men, who hate taken his money to save their own pockets, to condemn him? ‘Were they not rally price" in the business? 'Bm both of the greui partie- irhn m amyed in poli'f‘ had an!!! min» each other am done. defend. and sustain the license. principle. It then not waded damn i new party,n pm- hibition puty to'uteflhrow the Me a a leg-lined bail-eh? In the common I" uf the {and it in". in standing.- Until pro- tected and legdimd by statute In" it he been (imbued again and again byonroonrhn nuisance. 6*... Cult W. “No Rigid-tum an. bugain city the public wealth outlaw public monk. The people them- selves cannot do it. much less theil‘ term“. Government is orglniled with a View to their motion, and cannot divest iuelfof the ”at W provide fur them." United States Supt-rm“ court in Kan-u cum. M an? Any. To cut a van» for a man :mv does no; Iii chooenâ€"to cast it so that it shall niacpmosnt one} on opinionâ€"«rely that in throw - in; In] I~ [ob with l 'WWCT" Chlago Jamal. A Prohibition rally wn's held De. “oil“ Iowa, this wank. of war