Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1891-11-19
Prohibition Scum"


the occasional periods of depression in bus
iness in Maine; reasons given why the boys
and girls leave the farms, and crowd into
the large towns and cities why certain
farms have been abandoned, the windows
OF the old homestead boarded up, and the
once beautiful door-yard overgrown with
briers and noxious weeds
But 1t remained for the President of the
Maine State Pharmaceutical Association,
who Is probably one of the most accom-
plished druggists in the State, to find out
the real cause, and he ought to get a copy
right on his ''hnd." as we think it Is clear
ly original. During the recent meeting of
the Association at the kineo House Moose
head Lake, the President made an address,
which has been published in several papers,
and from which we make the following
extract:
maine should be growing, prosperous
State, not tagging behind her sister States,
but with broad and liberal policy attract
Ing population, wealth and enterprise from
without, and retaining her own sons with
in her borders. Yet much of our best
blood and broadest manhood have for
years sought new homes in distant States !;
our wealth has found more profitable in
vestment in other fields; our rural COM
munities have decreased in population
our farms have diminished in value; our
growth has not kept pace with the coun-
try's advance. What are the causes that
have operated to produce these conditions
Is one--of course do not mean all causes,
but as thread in the strands one reas-
on, anything of narrow bigotry, of self
righteousness descended from old time
Puritanica Massachusetts, along with
sturdy virtues, settling down into her
eastern district As cold dregs from Salem
Witchcraft broth, till fermented by dema-
gogical and fanatical heat, 1t has risen to
the surface here as prohibition scum. de-
filing the sacred cause of temperance? Has
this scum from Intolerance, running into
our legislation, obscured the clear percep-
tions of our law makers and resulted in a
public policy which in any manner hinders
the progress growth and development of
our good commonwealth
SO the prohIOitory law is one of the
causes Of all our woes, and those who are
in favor Of the prohibition of the liquor
traffic are stimulated BY '.cold dregs from
Saiem Witchcraft broth, fermented by
demagogical and fanatical heat We no
tice that these cold dregs" have operated
10 make rum sellers in Augusta very sick
the past year. have driven some from the
nefarlous and outlawed traffic into legti-
mate business, seeking there to earn an
honest living. Arrests are few and drunk
ennesS rare. These "cold dregs" have also
operated in the same way in Portland, Lew
iston and other large places, and the result
has been wholesome atmosphere and a
better state of things generally. The fact
Is, prohibition has outlawed the traffic, has
shut up the open bars, and driven the busi-
ness into denS and holes and obscure cor
nerS for concealment, or into the pockets
Of those who peddle out damnation on the
sly.
This prohibition scum" to which the
President tauntiugiy refers, has become
potent element in shaping the liquor legis-
iation Of some of the most intelligent
States of the nion. And In those States
where prohibition has not been adopted,
II is always held up as the ideal and true
form Of legislation on this subject, a mark
70 which they hope to attain. The South
is just now rocked from centre to circum-
ference by the discussion of this impor-
tant question. Relieved by the force Of
arms from the whitening curse of human
bondage, the people are now seeking to
throw OF the far more calling yoke of the
liquor traffic. 1t is so in the great West.
People from the green hills and pure brac-
ing atmosphere OF New England. have
gone there to plant New England ideas in
the virgin soil of a new empire, and they
have taken along with them plenty of this
prohibition scum" 1t is scum not to
be blown away by the breath of scofers.
SO entreucned is the principle of the
prohibition of the liquor traffic in the
minds and hearts of the best men and
women of this State, that no political par
ty dare array itself against it, True it
has often been used as mask by schem-
ing politicians-m have voted for pro-
hibitory Legislation when half full of iq-
uor-there have been hypocrites here aS
well as elsewhere but that does not
change the correctness of the principle
The President of this Druggists Associa-
ton would be the last one to DENY that
there are quaCks even in his profession;
that sometimes the signs of the various
colored globes and mortar and pestIe of
the druggist are used to conceal the real
business of rum selling. The worst grug
shops flourish oftentmes under such CON
cealmcnts. Because Of this, he would not
have Us believe that there are no cold and
reliable druggists" men that we would
not trust, under certain restraints to dis
pense alcohol along with other poisOns.
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