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The Huron Expositor, 1929-04-05, Page 31.1 itting Money We sell drafts, money orders and cable remittances on all parts of the world—at low- est rates. U Quick service at all brannch& u eve - t t?io t has © equal h2 V rl sty ©i StyJ d abaice, Ski artlitN and evameoe, End aD. Rem Valzzo D OMO IOiN i, *T Established 1821 138 SEAFORT1BI rsRANCH R. 1I. Jones - - Pilla>affi IFOR PJMOTH ERS OF YOUNG CHILDREN Mothers are quick to praise any- thing which brings health and com- fort to their little ones—any medi- cine that will make the baby we11 and keep him well will always re- ceive hearty recommendations from the mother. That is why Baby's Own Tablets are so popular. Thousands of mothers throughout the country, not only use them for their own little ones but are always delighted to be able to recommend thein to other mothers. Thousands of mothers have proved Baby's Own Tablet, to be without an equal in relieving their little ones of any of the many minor ailments which arise •out of a de- rangement of the stomach and bowels. Baby's Own Tablets are the ideal lax- ative --easy to take but thorough in action. They banish constipation and indigestion; break up colds and sim- ple fevers; expel worms and make the teething period easy. The Tab- lets are sold by medicine dealers or by mail at 25 cents a box from The Dr. Williams' Medicine Co.. Brock- ville, Ont. [PROHIBITIONISTS HONOR GEN. NEAL \DOW'S MEMORY. It is natural enough that the pro- hibitionists of the United States, view- ing the noble experiment which has engulfed their country, should cele- brate the first important anniversary of the late General Neal Dow, which followed the passage of the 18th am- endment. That anniversary was the 125th anniversary of his birth which occurred a few days ago. General Dow was not the first prohibitionist in the United States by any means, but he was the man who made Maine dry and Maine was the first large community on this continent to adopt prohibition. Therefore, Gen. Neal Dow is held in grateful remembrance by his fellow prohibitionists. For a long time Maine remained the only state exempt by public vote from the rav- ages of liquor, and generations passed before any of her sisters showed any disposition to imitate her example. In those years Maine was probably /little dryer than her next door neigh- bors for the law was notoriously not enforced. We recall the story of a visitor to a Maine town, who called a native aside and whispered shame- facedly that he would like to know where to get a drink. The native took him by the arm and steered him into the middle of the road. Then he pointed down the street and said: "You see that shop down there about half way to the next block?" "You mean that Millinery shop?" asked the startled stranger. "Why, you don't mean—" "I mean," said the native, "that that is the only place in the block where you can't buy liquor." It is possible that this incident may brave somewhat exaggerated the situ- ation, but the general inference that the law was not generally obeyed may safely be accepted. Neal Dow was a native of Portland, widely respected and in time came to be elected mayor. The evils of the wide open drinking of the period had impressed him as one of the greatest evils of the time and for six 'successive years he ap- pealed to the state legislature to pass a bill making the drinking of liquor a crime. On his 'sixth effort in 1851, he succeeded, and in both the upper and lower house his bill was approved. Those of a later generation will find it hard to understand to what an ex- tent the people of Maine in those days and the people of the United States generally. were soaked in liquor. Al- most everybody drank and the favor- ite tipple was not light beer and wines but rum and whiskey. In some towns church bells were rung at 11 o'clock every morning, so that the men could knock off work for a drink. lA clergy- man of the period writing to a broth- er, said: "My main dependence in the mid -week prayer meeting is upon 't deacon, but he is generally so under the influence of liquor that his prayers are not edifying!? The clengyman did not go so far as to hint that they might not be efficacious either, but probably the suspicion was present in his mind. Not so long before, a re- ligious body had gone on record as forbidding its active clergy to engage in the business of selling liquor as a sideline. Citizens of the highest busi- ness and social standifig were engaged in the traffic, and the reformer who protested against the immoderate use of liquor was accused of attacking some of the most reputable people in the community. A,great deal of the business of Maine was done with the West Indies, which bought lumber and fish, and sent back molasses and rum in the return cargo. The population of the state was 400,000 and there were 13 distilleries operating. The average annual per capita consumption of rum was more than four gallons, or 20 gallons for the average family. There were about 500 taverns in the state and in ad- dition almost every store solid liquor. Despite the fact that there was so much pure rum available, there was also doctored stuff afloat which, we suppose, was sold cheaper than even the cheap rum, and against this the newspapers warned readers and urged tavern keepers to have their stocks tested for fear their customers might he poisoned. The general sense of the business community of the day was that drinking was a good thing. The drinker was regarded as a man who contributed to enterprise, prosperity and progress, and the abstainer was regarded in precisely the same light that a miser would now be viewed. But there were those also who saw the perils of the traffic and before Dow's long fight was crowned with victory the state officials of Maine and some of the members of the leg- islature had signed a pledge of total abstinence to set an example to their fellows. But all efforts for reform short of absolute prohibition, seemed to have no effect, and in desperation many men who had been moderate drinkers aligned themselves with the prohibitionists to stamp opt a curse which they feared would ruin the state. It is interesting to note that it was one of Gen. Dow's co-workers. Gen. James Appleton, chairman of a committee of the legislature, which reported favorably on prohibition in 1837, who for the first time based his recommendation of prohibition on public rather than moral or religious grounds. 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