Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-08-26
"lNFERNAL" REVENUE.
A Few Short Arguments Against the
Business that Is Always Bad.

(By Rev Wilbur F. Crafts. Phi. d,
Superintendent of the International
Reform Bureau.)
l. The official papers of the distil-
lers brewers and liquor dealers. have
appealed To Maine to repeal eonstitu-
tional prohibition. The liquor inter
ests are also appealing for repeal b2
costly advertisements in Maine papers.
What further proof does any sane man
need that prohibition cuts down liquor
CT consumption more than any other form
of liquor law?
2. The Prohibition Map of the Unit
ed States, which has been for go years
the experiment station of the world IN
LIQUOR legislat ton, is half white, mean
ing that half the territory, containing
nearly half of the population-4i of 81
millicns-are under prohibition, after
trying license for themselves or See
ing il tried by others. What need Of
retail statistics. when one has such
wholesale proof?
g. The young voter of Maine. in
clined because of the liking of youth
for change or because in some OF his
'larks' he has seen secret bar rooms
and sincerely thinks them worse than
the gilded saloons that he never saw
should consider that Names GO
YEARS ADHERENCE TO PRoHIBi-
TION MEANS SOMETHING. II
would make the State look like fool
before the whole world to confess 1t
could not find out in 60 years whether
LIQUOR selling is a crime or "a legitl-
mate business. Let not the young
- H. n
which means that the liquor dealers
Maine has fined and jailed for more
than half a century We're honorable
merchants abused.
4. II is safer to keep prohibition IN
the peoples law, the constitution, than
to transfer II to the politicians law
the statutes" partly because the wins
key trust would find it hard to bride
or fool ITO, 600 voters than 92 legislators
"a majority.
s. AS slavery, clear cut question
of right and wrong was out in the ma
tionai constitution, the equally simple
and fundamental principle that an en-
shaving business should not be legal
lied. finds it's proper place in the
State Constitution
6. u is not fair to blame State pro-
hihiton for the importation of Ii
ouors. which only Congress can pro-
hibit but the twenty millions of gal
Ions shipped by mail order houses into
prohibition states, which is paraded
as proof of the failure of statewide
prohibition when divided among the
prohibition states turns out TO be
very strong argument for prohibition
- - 10, n III Gallons
to their population, while the average
for the whole country is Piss gallons;
that is. THE CONSUMPTION OF
MAIL ORDER LIQUORS IN PROHI-
,BITION STATES WHICH IS ADMIT
TED TO BE NEARLY ALL THAT
Is ONLY ONE EIGHTEENTH OF
THE AVERAGE NATIONAL CON
SUMPTION. In expense, the average
cost Of liquors for the whole country
is 1873, while for prohibition states
ii is sl.4S.
Z. In New Hampshire, the repeal OF
weaker prohibition. less enforced. was
followed by four and half fold in
crease of criminal DRINKS in four wears.
8. Congressman j. NJ. Miller of Kan
sas, showed in Congress, from the IN
fernal revenue" records, that New Jer-
sey, with about the same population
as Maine and Kansas, has far more
speakeasies, besides 1861 legalized sa-
looms, which have a much worse in
finence on liquor consumption and its
consequences. New Jersey pays the
nation in liquor taxes s3.47O644, while
Kansas and Maine pay sl02,508. The
contrast in every other respect is in
favor of the prohibition states, for ex-
ample. New Jersey has e1,755 unmort-
gagged homes. Kansas and Maine 1872
046. (These statistics are given in full
in Prohibition Handbook, 10c)
O. Prohibition. in spite of the un-
faithfulness of partisan officials seek
ing personal or party advantage by
half enforcement, has made a surpris-
ingly good record, and the voter should
take into account three reasons for
expecting better enforcement in Maine
hereafter: ID The auickening OF
public sentiment by this Campaign.
| (2) The probability that the popular
movement for the bipartisan Com
mission plan of city government will
provide a better class of enforcement
| officers free from party influences
| ca. The interstate liquor bill of Con-
! gress has stronger support in this
i Congress and better chance to pass
Il than ever before
Il VOTE mo" ON SEPT. II.
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