Liquor in Portland, Maine by California Christian Advocate

International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Jul 30, 1885

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 11, No. 29.

Liquor in Portland, Maine.

By California Christian Advocate

The Chronicle rather bewailed the fact that the Grand Army meeting in Portland was in danger of being a dry gathering. The Maine people do not consider themselves under obligations to supply anybody with whisky. The Chronicle thinks that a meeting of soldiers without liquor would be anything but a success. That is unjust to thousands of old soldiers who hate the drinking habit and loathe the liquor business. But, then, why those tears? We thought that the "press" had indubitable evidence that liquor was more common in Maine than anywhere else. Does not prohibition increase saloons and drinking? Have we not been assured a hundred times that it does? Have we not had many "certificates" showing that Maine is full of whisky? Yet, now comes this affiant and says the Grand Army is likely to perish of thirst. O tempora! O mores!—California Christian Advocate.