Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-09-29
36th CONVENTION OF
THE MAINE ", c. I, U.
State President Mrs. |. N. n. Stevens
Fears Resubmission May Be Forced
But Thinks That the People Will
Retain Prohibitory Amendment.

state prohibition in New Hampshire
the total number of criminal DRINKS
was ALB. In 1906, after four years
trial of license, the total number of
criminal DRINKS was 2,1S1-the same
state, the same class of people; the
only difference being a change from
prohibition to license
! The PrOhibitory Law of New Hamp-
shire was not as strong or as well
enforced as is the Prohibitory Law CT
Maine.
License Laws Violated.
Under the local option license law,
Rochester n. H, voted out the sa-
looms four years ago. The liquor ell
ement is determined they shall be
voted back on Nov. s. and the cry of
the liquor men and their allies is
that there is more liquor sold in the
blind tigers, kitchen barroooms or
dives in Rochester than there would
ne had they licensed saloons Let us
go on few miles from Rochester to
| Dover and SOmerSwOrth, N. H. Both
of these places have licensed saloons,
and we find more blind tigers or
kitchen barrOoms. in other words,
more illegal selling than they have in
Rochester This is provable, not only
by close observation. but by the fact
that in prohibition Rochester 10 have
secured r. S. revenue tax receipts.
Since only five have the right to sell
in drug stores. etc, according to New
Hampshire law, it is clear that the
other five are illegal sellers. License
SomersWorth has 25 licensed places
and holds SO revenue tax receipts,
thus showing that Somersworth has
at least II illegal places of sale Lii
cense Dover has 81 licensed places and
holds 81 revenue tax receipts-24 il
lgal places. These and similar facts
prove that in license towns they have
/ in addition to the licensed saloons,
etc, more illegal selling than in pro-
Inhibition towns.
Educational Advantages of Prohibi-
ton.
| The marvel and the pity of it that
there are here in this State those who
would give the legal right to sell
| that which debases manhood, de-
frauds Womanhood, robs childhood
ruins homes Strong drink is ply
sical, financial. spiritual and moral
curse woman of my acquaintance
living in a license city told me that
she was talking with her son, a high
school lad, about the dangers of the
drink and the evils of the saloon; she
felt especially anxious because her
son had to pass five gilded saloons
between his home and the school
house. In reply to her appeal the
boy smilingly said ooh mother you
do not understand about the saloons
You are altogether too careful of me-
| If the saloon were as bad as you
think they are do you suppose our
state would permit them to exist, and
if the saloons in our city were dan
gerous for young men do you think
that the people of our city would give
men licenses to carry them on?"
! No mother in Maine can be thus
answered by her boy when she is
talking with him about the dangers
of strong dring. but she can say. "thc
sale of drink is outlawed; no one is
permitted to sell it and if it is sold
in spite of law the seller is liable to
arrest, fine or Imprisonment
Liquor Trade in Maine Election.
1t is true that prohibition was not
the issue in the late gubernatorial
campaign in Maine. but there is no
doubt in the minds of well informed
people but that the brewery and dis
ltillery business lent a hand with
money in it to elect to official posi-
lions those who were opposed to pro-
Ihibition.
|
just made that representatives of the
liquor trade had hand in the late
Maine campaign is the reliable state
ment that there is a society in Maine,
with headquarters at Rockland, named
THE Peoples Association For More
Just and Liberal Laws in Maine, and
a Massachusetts man who is president
of a distillery company is the secre-
! tary of this liquor promoters society
in Maine. This society is reported to
: have had it's sly branches in every
; corner of Maine to work for the cleo
| ton of men favoring resubmission t.
; make way for a license law in this
, State. This society is acting in har-
/ mony with the National Liquor Deal
, ers Association and with the National
Model License League and other Ma
tonal liquor societies of which there
lare many.
License Advocates Defame Maine.
The liquor tribe defames the State
of Maine calling its people a race OF
lhypocrites, and declares that the
churches. the schools the character OF
: its women. the general finanial pros
: lperity of the State are below the av-
: terage state and that this comes about
: as the effect of prohibition. The
churches and the women of Maine
: need no defense. and the fact that 6
: larger number of pupils are gradual
S led from the elementary schools ir
! Maine than from any other New
f. Continued on Page Five.)