GENERAL NEAL DOW'S DAUGHTER ON THE MAINE LAW.

Evening Post, Volume LIX, Issue 112, 12 May 1900, Page 3 (Supplement)

GENERAL NEAL DOW'S DAUGHTER ON THE MAINE LAW.

In the course of a speech delivered at the National W.C.T.U. Convention, Seattle, Washington, in Novemiber last, and reported in the Union Signal, Miss Cornelia M. Dow, daughter of the famous General Neal Dow, "the father of the Maine Law," thus referred to the operation of the law in that "dry" State: — "In Maine we have the question often asked us, 'Does Prohibition Prohibit?' And perhaps you want to ask the sam* 'question. Yes, it does. Another question, 'Are there open &aloons in Maine V No. Some liquor is sold, but when each seller of the contraband goods — who is as much a- criminal as he who steals your .purse^ — keeps a man on the watch' for the constable or the sheriff while he deals out his glass of beer behind closed doors in some dark alley, the saloon can\not be called 'open' — certainly not open as is this and other licensed States. The public sentiment of Maine is strongly arrayed against the liquor traffic. Why? Because under this policy the State has changed from the poorest State in the Union forty-five years ago to one of the most prosperous to-day. In proportion tb its population, Maine has larger deposits in savings banks than any other State in the Union. Why? Because Prohibition so prohibits that our people are sober, industrious, frugal, and saving. All over our State are indications of thrift and plenty, where, within the recollection of all Maine's delegation to- • day, were signs oi poverty an<t, squalor in many sections of our State. I repeat, we are more proud to-day of what England has achieved for the betterment of our people — yea, and for the world at large — than for any giory which has come to us in the halls of Congress or on battlefields. To this policy let us all stand true until every State over which floats the Stars and Stripes is with us on the platform of total abstinence for the individual and Prohibition for the nation."