The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1908-07-12

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who have the same lppptitcs and de-
sires as the riCH. ride iu the street
cars for their outing 20 to out.of.
town parks and gardens. and if they
drink II is of vile stun they get ON
the sly. and with no intention to get
Drunk spoonful will go to their
heads and eat olt Their stomachs. and
many go To work on Monday. after "A
SUNDAY outing. wishing they were
dead. and looking as II they were. II
there was one saloon or beer garden
where they could for a nickel get a
good schooner Of stun made OF hons
and malt. they would 20 home at
night sober and happy. with a song
on their lips while going 10 the next
days labor. and smiles Ou their faces
They know this. and an the better
class of people know that Maine needs
few places where good old ale can
be drank. or good beer. with the tru.
gal luncheon these laborcrs are con.
tented with. The time is coming
when Maine will change her 7rohi.
bition laws and ease mp a little. and
all the people admit It but they do
not know when
At Augusta. the capital OF Maine
on the beautiful Konncboc river
found things the same way--empty
bottles everywhere. bought Of boot
leggers. and the contents drank on
the sly. as one would steal money
when the owner was not looking. the
empty bottle kicked about or floating
down the rivers into the ocean and
every last man who drinks OF the
stun is AZ for murder. u lis not rccog
nizcd by law that liquor exists in
Maine. so tnere Is no commission or
officers whose duty 1t Is TO analy2c
the stun and destroy IL II found poi
sonous. so the dealers who deal 10
the dark are not compelled to furnish
pure goods In fact, they do not want
pure goods. They keep certain stun
and YOU don't have 10 buy II II YOU
do not want II. and II YOU buy 1t you
take your chances. They are like the
green goods men who sell box OF
sawdust 10 the man who thinks he is
getting counterfeit money Wien he
finds he has got the worse of II. he
goes home and kicks himself but he
does not kick to the man he had the
dealings with. II Maine Is going tu
continue 10 be prohibition state.
and wants to remain q healthy state
Of good and great men. She must make
II crime punishable with death for
men to sell TO the men. women and
children of the state alleged liquor
that eats out their interior dccora
tions. or beerine that is So full of gas
/ that a man has TO carry sandhags In
I Ia tA LA.t, d IN gntlfnu
away like an airshi1. Augusta Is full
OF the joints that cater to the people
Who want drink. and everybody
B laughs about II. No man, business
man or otherwise. seems to care how
many places there are To get drunk
/ In. or who keeps them. They all tel
/ the same story when asked II prOhi
/ bition IN Maine is a blessing to the
people Blessing hell is the almost
4 inyariable answer, and they will add
t'at there is more liquor drank N
Maine than there Is In Boston Ypt
ask the banker what he thinks about
Maine and prohibition, and he vii
say. Well YOU know | am no drink
ing man. though | keep liquor in my
house. and | am classed among those
who favor prohibition, but our law
never has been enforced, and we arr
the laughing stock OF the world, viii
more drunkenness than Cheyenne II
It's palmiest DAYS, and Maine is the
Jekyl-Hyde state, and we all know II
claiming 10 be better than othel
states. and with purer morals, anC
at the same time winking at crime
and raising the devil after dark. bu
We are going to have a change ant
open mp some respectable saloons ant
let people drink I'm public and smile
and help pay taxes instead of drink
ing behind the door aqua fortis anC
carboic acid diluted with wood al
cohol. and hating everybody, as they
do now. But don't say ] said so
Asked when this was to be brought
about. the banker will tell YOU Il
wait until the people get chance
TO vote on "re-submission., and yot
will hear something drop.
DO you know, much as ! have
looked up to Maine for half cen
turv as tn temperance state tha
has produced so many statesmen, bu
which has gone out of the business
of producing statesmen since Blaine
and Tom Reed passed away, when
go about and see the hypocrisy o
truly good state posing as a TEN
perance state, and making Rom'
howl with her drunkenness, | an
ashamed Of Maine, and almost ever
respectable man ! talked with in tn
state is ashamed. Now, honest, hoy
does prohibition affect your state?
asked OF prominent business ma
in his own counting ROOM He locke
over his shoulder, as all Maine mel
do before they express themselves o.
prohibition. 1T Is a terrible farce, AM
a crime, and we are the confoundedes
hypocrites on earth, and the soone
we have a chance at "re-submissiO1
the better It will be for us. As II I
now we are making prohibition IN
{ football Of political desperadoes, an
, the Sturgis commission Is rotten 1
the core" But about tle "Sturgi
! commission and 'resubmission,"
! shall have 10 have another whack a
Maine, after going up the state, I
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