Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-03-12

endorse the following resolutions:
Whereas, The agitation in favor of
prohibition has increased to such an
| alarming extent all over the country
| that the very life of our business is
threatened: and
Whereas. 1t has, therefore, become
necessary for the trade to take united
action towards defending it's rights;
and
'Whereas, 1t is the opinion of a large
number Of the members of the Whole
sale Liquor Dealers Association of
America that that association is the
one through and by which work of this
kind should. be inaugurated and pushed
to a successful finish; now, therefore,
be it
Resolved. That a bureau be estab-
lished by the National Wholesale Lii
quor Dealers Association of America,
whose sole duty it shall be to prose-
cute this work: and it shall be called
the Protective Bureau of the National
Wholesale Liquor Dealers Association
of America
If we have had so years of hypoc-
risy as you claim we have, if we have
had so years of farce as you claim we
have, why is it that eight other states
are under the dominating influence of
prohibition Why is it that every 9TH
er state in the Union has prohibition
counties and towns? Surely your eXpe-
rience of so years of farce and hypoc-
risy could not possibly be kept within
the narrow confines of this State. 1t is
certainly a mystery that it should be
fa,l 70 tl,a &c nf Maina
to discover this awful state of hypoc-
risy and farce before anyone else in
our broad expansive country of S0,000,-
900 people. 1t seems somewhat strange
that it is almost invariably permitted
to some Of our fellow Democrats to en-
ter within the veil that divides the
known from the unknown. the past and
present from the future, the visible
from the invisible While abiding in
this transitory state we know not
whether they have the opportunity OF
cOmmuning with Enoch and Moses and
Elijah and Elisha, those saints of BIZ
BILE days, who walked and talked with
God and were translated into q fairer
cline than ours. They never tell us
that part. Whether they are translat-
ed into this transitory state by a pow
err Divine or by one infernalistic we
know not. But they always return with
the same evil forbodings that the State
is going to the dogs and the republic
to rack and ruin and they always play
the same old tune on the same old
harpsicord.
Who is it that demands resubmis-
sion? 1t is the sentiment of every dis
ti1lorxy of, Whn1pS9 10
and retail liquor dealer, every rum
sympathiZer and criminal drunkard.
Our resubmission friends in order to
make their position a little more tena-
BILE tells us that some of the gospel
ministers Of Maine, perhaps 2 per
cent. including some now actively en-
gagged in the ministry and also some
who have had the title of reverend at
tachel to the name in the years gone
by. hut now engaged in some other
pursuit are in favor of resubmission.
Such clergymen need to have another
vision of the New Jerusalem. They
must needs be revived and rejuve-
mated. re-enervated and regenerated. In
fact they must needs be "born again.
You will doubtless recall that there
was held a resubmission convention in
Bangor in September, 1908. The great
est gathering of outlaws that ever as
semhled within the four walls of any
building in the State Of Maine outside
of the Maine State prison l wonder
whether these so-called clergymen
would be found setting side by side
these aldermanic runsellers arrayed
in their glittering trappings, or wheth
er we should behold them marching in
the rear beating a ( miniature snare
drum for the rebel angels of. He'll to
march by through the streets of the
Queen city of the East. I don't believe
anyone of these so-callcd clergymen
were ever ordained by God or by man
to enter into the sanctuary of the AL
mighty God and preaci, the unsearch-
able riches from those sacred pages
I don't believe they have sufficient
Saving grace to abide with them dur
ing the silent watches of TIE night.
May Gods ever widening mercy have
an abiding presence with these So
called clergymen who for six days dur
ing the week masquerade under The
cloak of resubmission which means
nothing more or less than free rum,
hell, and eternal damnation and then
on llle seventh udy enter lfllO the p't.-
pit of the Living God and tell their
parishioners how glad they are saliva
ton is free Oh, consistency thou art
d jewel
If prohibition is so debauching why
is it that the number of criminal
drunkards committed in Vermont the
last two years under prohibition were
sos: while under the last two years
under license were 1404. In New
Hampshire last year under prohibition
Alb, license Psi.
Our Boys.
The following extract is from the
speech of one of the officers OF the
Ohio State Liquor League:
1T will appear from these facts, gen.
tlemen. that the success of our BUSH
ness is dependent largely upon the
creation of an appetite for drink. Men
who drink liquor, like others will die.
and if there is no new appetite created
our counters will be empty. as will our
money drawers Our children will so
hungry, or we must change our BUSH
ness to something more remunerative
The open field for the creation of this
appetite is among the boys. After men
are grown and their habits are formed