SALVATION OF MAINE.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1294, 24 November 1911, Page 9

SALVATION OF MAINE.

PROHIBITION REPEALED. FIFTY YEARS OF NO-LICEXSE J'ItUVUD DIS.VSTKOI'.S. Prohibition in Maine was first. minuted in 1851. Sinco thou it.s career lias been fitful, and it is now extinguished. 11l isat a vote of tlio people was taken and the Prohibitionists were victorious, but the evils of sly grog-selling and other inic|iiities that grew up under the protection of prohibition and uo-liccuse were so abundant during succeeding years that a majority lias now been found to declare against its being any longer endured. Hero are tho figures Total For Against Majority voles Prohibition. Prohibition. for. polled. 1881 70,783 23,911 46,972 01,691 Majority against. 1911 .60,401 60,181 20 120,942 That Maine has been practically stagnant all theso years is seen from the fact that her voting population only increased at the rate of less than one thousand per annum! Under licenso New Zealand increased by nearly twenty thousand. per annum. This great revulsion of feeling against Prohibition demonstrates the usclcssness of the proposal. If New Zealand would avoid the disasters | socially, politically and religiously that have overtaken Maine every voter must Strike . Out the Bottom Lines, on Both Ballot Papers on Election Day.*