Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1891-06-09
Lewiston Joufnal.)

kAcWIbsou JouIu8l.
We know OF many hotel landlords Who
have lived through the years that have
sepsrated the g-og shop from the hotel, and
they DO not want il understood that thsy
believe that either the business interests Of
Marie or the zeal interests Of Ma ne land
lords, require the degradation of hotel life
20 the old bar room standard. Those among
Us who remember the professions OF old
sopers who, forty years ago. at IL
o'clock in the mornirg used to fle up TO the
hotels to DO business ard reel home 81
divers times and zsiis, DO no. look With any
favor on the development Of industry al
proposed by the fifty gentlemen who on
Thursday at Wsterville, undertook to define
the liquid necessities of Maine enterprise
Thousands Of families A ok to Maine hotels
in the summer season because they want .
hotel and do not want \ rum shop
History repeats itself. When the era Of
prohibition first get in years ago, we were
informed that hotel conld not be success
fully run by water power. Since prohibit
ton was inAuzura.ed. Maine hotels have
been developed from q most limited and
primitive condition, into great snd fashion
able places Of entertainment, especially
10 response to the demand OF summe =
leisure. The elimination of the bar,
has made healthy family life possible
at Maine hotels. Such splendid estsb-
iishmeuts as the Poland Springs House
have come into existence in our State,
under prohibition. as a special tribute to
pure water as substitute for TIE mutiform
kidney-destroyers Of the Dad. Indeed. to
the business interests of the State and to
t1ta h.
esis Of the panderers to evil habit, sending
the Maine hotel to the rear and bringing the
grog shop to the front. would be q grave
disaster. Leaving all moral considerations
out Of the question, pxndering to evil sppa-
tite 10 one Of the worst OF industrial blum
ders. As believers in prohibition and in its
practical workings. We gratefully thank the
gentlemen who want to start grog shops
within the hotels, for the valued proof which
they supply, that the sale Of ardent spirits
is cut Of by pfohibtion-in fact that pro-
hibiton prohibits. Ii is good TO have the
friends Of license put themselves on record
against prohibition. simply on the ground
Of the objection that prohibition gets there
The contract undertaken by these fifty
gentlemen who met on Thursdsy. in Water
vile, and resolved to turn the wheels Of
progress so years backward in Maine, is 3
larger contrsc. than they can execute. II
not only undertakes to reshape and degrade
public sentiment in Marie on the gigantic
evil Of our time. but il undertakes to dis
solve part of the Constitution Of Maine
81 well as considerable body OF statutory
Law. We do not believe that the landlords
Of Maine can be consolidated against the
constitution, laws and moral sense Of the
State. The hotel that has come to stay, 10
the hotel tdat undertakes to supply food,
not poison, refreshment rather than demon
sization. The gentlemen who want the
license to sell grog, must 60 to other pas
lures. The men and women Of Maine by
great majority have said it they will con-
tiuue to say it. Maine is unalterably
opposed to license.
The idea that business is promoted by
grog shops, is one which it would be well
to put to the test. How much more
efficient hiss grog made auy person of your
scqusiotance? When did you ever hear Of
mans salary bsilg raised because of hi,
talent for absorbing liquor? How many
failures in business and IN life are charge
able directly or indirectly TO strong drink
Until all these and h,sts Of collateral ques.
tons are answered in life other than they
are answered by the recent Watefvills
License Convention. the argument Of thai
body will need no refu.siion but that Of
daily observation. There is no business
end to the grog shop thst any man who
wants an honest dollar should desire it
Money. it is true, may be made gu. Of vice
but it is bad money, and every leeitimat.
interest suffers when any Legitimate dollar
is minted