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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-06-08
Who Says It?

Editor kennebec Jout nal.
| hope you can find room for the fol-
lowing. which Is issued by the Maine
w. G. T. u, in your valuable paper?
Who says Prohibition is failure?
The brewer and distiller2 Yes. they
say it. Who else says it? The saloon
keeper and bartender? Yes. they say
it. and say it a dozen times a day.
The sot in the gutter? Yes, Inc says
it. and he certainly looks like it was
failure. The man who violates the
liquor laws? Certainly he says it.
and does all in his power to make IL
so.
Who says Prohibition is a failure?
The gambler" Yes, he says it. and
he associates with the very set that
would make it a failure. The whole
set of pOotleggers. joint keepers and
blind tiger men. they say it. OF course
they do and do their best to make it
SO.
What does the United States Gov
eminent say? Fifty miles of saloons
closed in 1905 and the liquor bill less
than the year before by S211,00o. 900
That's going some. And in 1909. forty
one saloons closed a day, sixty miles
of them in the year. over two million
less barrels of whiskey drank. and the
estimated drink bill lowered by Sil2.-
00o, 900.
What do the liquor men say among
themselves? Julius Lehman. the head
of the United Brewery of the United
States, in an address to the brewers
in June. 1909. says that the prohibition
wave curtailed the output of beer IN
the United States over five million bar
rels in eighteen months time.
In a private letter TO a saloon keeper
friend. one of the largest wholesale
wineries in the. country .amented that.
Here in Virginia We are fighting for
our very existence. if this thing con-
tinues much longer We shall all be
broke. even il we win" Which may
not be an over grammatical sentence
but one plain to understand. lAe
writer continues In the last year we
have lost over 100000 of established
trade. legislated out of existence.
Do YOU ever say that Prohibition
is a failure? Think a minute. De you
want to train with the crowd that Ia
always saying this? Use your common
sense. If as much whiskey is sold I'M
der prohibition as under license. i'll the
name of common sense. why do not all
the saloon keepers work for preaibi-
ton. save their license money, and sell
as much as ever? When they do all
in their power to defeat prohibition,
and pour out money like water to do
this. they acknowledge by their actions
that prohibition prohibits altogether
too we'll to suit them.
These who wish to help the liquor
business should use their influence to
repeal Names Prbhibitory Law
Those who wish to help all desirable
business interests and to protect the
home. should uphold in all possible
WAYS Names Prohibitory Law.
A Friend.
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Information Wanted.

Our bid would be even higher If said
disquisition included convincing proof as
TO the old reiterated assertion that the
Tumsellers want to keep prohibition. We
have heard that many times, and from
respectable citizens: we have not yet be-
lieved 1t. The rumsellers.--so the theory
is,-know that they could not get IL
censes, even If license law were enact
ed They would be driven out of bust.
to save their business their rumselling.
To seek out to what degree Mrs. l.. NJ.
n. Stevens and her w. c. t. Us are
working mot hand-in-hand with asse-
ciated rumsellers, but say elbow-to-eibow
with them-might reveal some as inter-
esting old things as excavations in Crete
A statue of Morality. as beautiful as
Venus battered and embalmed as IL were
in fou-smelling decaying old ideals. den-
titled as to age and origin by its inextn-
guishable strong Decentralization Sun
Say Neighbor. you should read the
Portland Argus In another column
you will find an expose of the whole
business-just how the liquor dealers
are going to put UP a hot fight to save
prohibition. etc. Be sure to read
Wednesdays Argus. Brother Wood,
and then turn to that batch of stuff
that you received the other day from
the National wholesale Liquor Deal
ers Association of America''-if you
didn't throw it in the waste basket.
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Education Versus ignorance.

Editor kennebec Journal
And now an editor whom we have
vainly tried To lead into paths OF logic
and common sense on the prohibition
question excaims: How enlightening
it will be for Maine people to hear
missionaries from Japan, South
America and Macedonia tell them
what a good thing prohibition has
been for Maine, or to hear Ipeakers
from Boston, New York, Delaware,
Michigan and other sections that do
not know anything about prohibition
except what they read about it argue
that Maine ought to retain it, How
instructive it will be to see children
and women wearing vote no. badges,"
The ENLIGHTENMENT will come
from hearing people who have travel
ed from remote sections of the earth
tell what evil liquor selling has done
and is doing in sections where they
have resided and through which they
haSe. travelled, and what would result
in Mains were the same conditions
permitted here. They can tell Maine
people the contrast between the peace
and prosnerity and home happiness
that some ignorant people would
throw away as worthless and the
misery producing conditions they
would get in exchange. They can
present facts to prove that BY retain
ing and enforcing prohibition the
wretched conditions existing in other
states and other countries. IN NONE
OF WHICH a MAINE MAN WOULD
CARE TO LIVE. may be avoided in
his own State. Perhaps they may,
and they undoubtedly will be able to
tell sufficient regarding the effects
produced by liquor in those other
communities to impress upon the mind
of this editor the desirability of
minimizing to the greatest possible
extent the power of liquor to spread
such devastation here. Many young
children have been able To grasp this
idea as Well as the most power
full intellects of Americas purest and
best educated men.
The INSTRUCTION derived by
looking upon the women and children
wearing vote no. badges would be,
among other thoughts. that ii will re-
mind some men of the duty owed
these voteless. home sharing ones by
the men under whose protection God
placed them. TO some men of fine
spirit and keen perception. vision
would also come of the woeful differ
ence the deluging of Maine with
liquor would make in the future lives
and happiness of many of these
badge wearers, who might instead in
the event of the invasion of Maine by
liquor sellers, be compelled to wear a
badge of sorrow within. A.
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CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.
(Pittsburg Dispatch }

$trKal MINING * ooite active in New
Caledonia Euronp.,n firms are invest
fne largely in il and other mining
same fair GOLD discoveries have bsan
mode r-eeptlv
In the last nine manths of 1aI0 In
dts i,,5,,o,.,s .,,,,,,,,,,,,, -, S2os asa So
and her exnorts "a s4ga q20 ia in
ereases of s22 0oa 0ao and ga Qua 400
customs receints v4fe 81, O00 mn a
gain of nearly S6 06en00
NJ. Lefort. president of the Academy
of Dancing Masters is one or those
who believe. in the fl,fI,re of tine ha-
rem skirt and he ms taken II for tba
inspiration. of a dance which is called
"I.a Charouelte the n.,,r4 az the
puffed trousers warn hv women of thu
East.
Verys small experience of practice Ia
needed 10 show that in serious illness
theslsatient's friends genergtlv ash the
nurse if she thinks the doctor areauv
understands the ease" and thew ara
much influenced Dy her opinion and
the manner in which sha gives II -
London HOSPITAL
The women of Champerys tho wen
known health resort in Switzerland.
have from, tin,a innn,en,ori.,I ,sor,ss ,,,,,,
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ends of dollars year 10 the wholesale
dealers in hard stun" Under IT this
stare has been rich field for their busi,
ness They do not want it interfered
with. They do not care to FISK any
chance. of interference. Prohibition is
most elastic institution. 1t suits the pro
fessional prohibitionists. 1t fools many
genuine advocates of temperance with t','
notion that IL promotes temperance, ana
At is veritable gold mine for the whole.
sale liquor dealers and Illicit vendors OF
hard stuff" and the worst connections
OF poisonous liquor masquerading as
whiskey and other spirituous liquors,
Constitutional prohibition is the saliva
ton of this tribe They are for 1t to
man.-Portland Argus.
How delightfully."- consistent Oh
course they are pleased with the pro-
hflpitory lawi We may expect them to
send orators to preach prohibition TO
Maine folks-to let the dear old Truth
full Argus" tell it. We suppose that
is why the makers of hard STUFF are
so frantically sending into Maine their
literature in books and bags of CIR
culars, OF course they are jealous OF
any attack upon prohibition! That II
why, they declare it failure anu
shout Surely there are other ways
to control and restrain the liquor bust
ness than through local option or pro-
hibition in any form"
The next thing we know the Argus
will be declaring that the dealers IN
hard stuff do not make any such
argument that the National Liquor
Dealers Associations agencies. hench-
men and press are doing all they can
to retain the law. The Argus should
remember that this literature of the
Liquor Trust is being circulated IN
the homes as well as the sahctums
and the people are having opportunity
TO see what the dealers in hard stuff
want.
Names prohibitory system may have
been "werth of hundreds of thousands |
of dollars a year to the wholesale |
dealers in hard stuff. :" but they are
not satisfied they want it to be worth
twice the hundreds of thousands
now coming in.
The Argus claim defeats itself be-
cause it is so bald and bare-faced,,
because it is contradicted in every
home (or soon will be) by the read
ing matter sent out by the rum trust
itself. Rum literature and claims are
usually more deceptively written. The
people are made to understand that the
liquor interests are opposed to pro-
hibition, even under the Democratic
Coverless Bridge plan.
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Maine Gossip
Today.

Other suns will shine as golden
Other skies be just as blue;
Other south winds blow as softly.
Gently drinking up the dew
other goldenrod and asters
With the sun and sky agree
These for other men and women
Just today for you and me
Other fruit of winey flavor
Wanderers will pluck and eat
Other birds with winsome voices
other songs will sing-as sweet
Ger the dappled brook will midges
Dance an hour then cease to be,
All the world may have tomorrow
But today's for you and me.
Other gardens will be planted
Fair as this which we call ours.
Other blooms will put to shamiug
These benign. old-fashioned flowers,
All the glories of the sunset
In the sunrise one may see.
That which others call the dawniug
Is the night for you and me
Edith Miniter in Success.
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SOME POSTSCRiPTS.
CHouSton Post.D

Every Paris public school has a
restaurant where meals are furnished
free to pupils too poor to buy them.
A muller on the exhaust of an au-
tomoble lessons the efficiency of the
engine from to 10 per cent.
The Chilean government has 1891
miles of railway under construction
and 1874 more miles under considera-
ton.
A cubic foot of newly fallen snow
weighs 5A pounds and has twelve
times the bulk of an equal weight of
rain water.
In no other country in the world are
there such vast. varied and valua BILE
deposits of gypsum as in Nova Scotia
A new jack for automobiles is con-
veniently operated by long brace of
the type used for boring. deep holes
into wood
The German government substan-
TALLY rewards every locomotive engin-
eer who runs a train for ten years
without accident
The forests of the United States are
estimated to contain enough timber to
house thirds of the worlds popu-
lation.
Ali material for a bridge in the in
terror of China, 800 feet long. had TO
be transported nearly 1000 miles in
native carts.
The earth is believed to be hiding
within its crust twice as much alum
mum as iron and more than eighty
times as much as copper.
France boasts of O-year-old oak
tree that still is fiourishing and that
will shelter 300 persons beneath its
branches.
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When Authorities" Disagree, whstq

The Portland Argus says the liquor
dealers do not wish to interfere with
prohibition; that they are making
money hand over fist out of 1t; that
is better for them than any other
means of handling the liquor question;
that only the professional prohibition
lists and the liquor interests want pro-
hibition, etc. etc
At Chicago, Tuesday of this week,
the chairman of the executive commit
tee of the National Wholesale Liquor
Dealers Association of America said:
The belief In the theory of prohibition
rs undoubtedly on the wane. This was
hibition last fall in the states of Mis-
souri, Florida and Oregon, and by its re-
cent repeal in the state of Alabama, but
ny me ne. present indif1Ierence Of the press
On July % the state of Texas is to vote
on prohibition amendment to its con-
stitution In September next the state of
Maine is to vote on the repeal of the
prohibition provision In its constitution
In November, 1912 the state of West Viz
ginia will vote on a like amendment If
the question could be freed from politics.
OF rather. from political expedieney, we
could predict with the utmost Certainty
that the amendment would be defeated
in Texas and West Virginia and pro-
hibition repealed in Maine. The likell-
hood is that, politics or no politics ex-
pedieney or no expedency, prohibition
Will be defeated In all three of the above
mentioned contests. The state.
wide prohibition wave that started with
Georgia In 1907 did not represent the
sober sense and conviction of the public
but was brought about by a frenzy
0 he. hot
no parallel In the political history of tbs
country. Statewide prohibition was
doomed from its beginning.
\ Wonder if the Argus won't tell us
d that the prohibition wave in th'
sonsa was engineered By the liquor In,
terestk
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The Portland Argus remarks edi-
torially that no other New England
state has so low an attendance of pu-
pills from outside the State in its col
leges as Maine. but fails to say what
prove that If Maine had as many
states to the eastward of it as to the
westward of it. the outside attendance
would be much larger The quality of
the output of Maine colleges has been
in the past and still is the best adver-
tisemcnt for Maine colleges and If
other states are not sending as many
students to Maine Institutions as for
merry misfortune is theirs, not Names.
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Respectable" Liquor Dealers.

Editor Kennebec Journal:
Will you kindly publish the follow
ing.
1t is a compliment to the work OF
the advocates of prohibition that a
liquor dealer must now be "respecta-
BILE" Cor appear so. at leasD to be en-
abled to murder his fellow creatures
with immunity or take away their
chances of earning livelihood
through their keenness of intellect or
steadiness of hands.
Having conquered weaker men by
enslaving the appetites of these
through poisonous thirst -creating
liquors, the liquor dealer has made
them servants compelled to labor to
increase his wealth, and has thus
evolved a labor problem before which
all other labor problems fade into in
significance. Liquor dealers now de-
sire to add to their retinue of en-
shaved coin gatherers the superior
class OF men who have heretofore
been, and preferred TO be. free and
Independent. To accomplish this,
these liquor dealers are planning
to organize a RESPECTABLE
TRUST, Think of 1.-THE terms
RESPECTABLE and TRUST APP
piled to liquor dealers.
Mothers of Maine, Would you like
YOUR sons to become "RESPECTA-
BILE" rum -sellers2 If prohibition
were stricken from the constitution.
you, unaided could not restore 1t.
neither could you do so with the as
sistance of all the people whose SER
vices would be placed at your COM
mand however much you might wish
to protect your sons and daughters or
their sons and daughters. Neither
could your children or their children
help restore it, for their own or others
benefit. if liquor had meanwhile
destroyed their lives, or intellects, or
virtue, or even the desire to restore it.
Intemperance is a disease, as surely
as any other that ever existed, and is
more to be dreaded. Power ought not
to be given to any man to inoculate
with an unquenchable. ineradicable
thirst for liquor whomsover he will.
for money gain or for any other con-
sideration. In this matter of the
prohibitory law, we urge you to use
every influence you can exert to do
tOr OII1eIS WUdl YOU would WISH OtIl-
ers to do for your sons and daughters
and their children after you have
passed beyond the power to protect
them.
You may say, AL men do not drink
to excess, and therefore it is not ne
cessary to protect them ALL" Do you
argue that way in regard to a danger
Gus grade crossing? Do you argue
so regarding the common drinking
cup? Or in the fight against tuber-
culosis? Or in protection against
mosquitoes? Or even in driving
flies from your household? While
we spend so much time and talk, and
millions of dollars, in warning people
to beware of flies for fear they may
spread typhoid fever or some other
disease, shall we suffer the greater
disease of intemperance to stalk
through our land unnoticed, and I'M
cared for, and uncured and unpre-
vented? Will YOU be less active
where both the soul and the body are
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imported than whore health only may

imperiled than where health only may
sbe endangered
VIII YOU spend thousands Of dollars
to educate your boys and girls to
prepare them for noble. useful lives,
and then permit the existence of an
evil which could and may rob them of
every vestige of intellect. or honor of
life and of soul? WIN YOU spend
years teaching and caring for them, to
bring them To manhood and To wo-
manhood. and then willingly permit
the liquor dealers. bar-tenders rum
sellers tcall them what YOU wild to
finish their education in every sense of
the word?
These questions are not mere
imaginings. They are based on
known facts regarding the effects of
alcoholic liquors. The thirst created
by alcoholic poisoning is not easily
uuenched. 1t is more likely to
quench manhood and womanhood
once started. than to lie itself duench
ed. In some eases only the Christ
power can extinguish it, Guard well
what YOU have gained by having
achieved prohibition of the liquor
traffic in the State of Maine
The people of Maine should fear, to
such an extent that they Will unite lii
organized resistance of any infraCtion
of the prohibitory law. the evils with
which intemperance would surround
or atilict them, were their vigilance
relaxed or their appreciation dulled as
to the value. even the necessity, of
this law sufficiently to permit Names
greatest honor as a State, and surest
safeguard of her homes. to be taken
from her. B. l..
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Some of the men who come into the
state from elsewhere have tendency
to chide Maine people for not daring
&c take a bold and open stand on pub
vital question of the retention of the
prohibitory amendment. which is to
be voted upon on the 18th day of next
September. they will find that the
timidity of the friends of prohibition.
If there ever was any, has vanished
and that elaine people are not afraid
to tell where they stand and urge
others to stand with them.
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IN THE WIDE WORLD.

Two-cent postage between Australia
and the British Isles was inaugurated
on May !.
There are fourteen vegetable ivory
button factories in Italy, employing
$500 to 5000 operatives and producing
annually ten to eleven million gross Oh
buttons.
A Pennsylvania farmer recently
gave an employe a cigar which ne nau
kept since July 4. 1853. The cigar
was one of two which the farmer TOOK
with SIS. for the sale of a horse 10 q
Confederate soldier on the retreat
from Gettysburg. s9A 'A
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M ars Hills

tBy Mrs. Amber f.. Robinson)
rugged hill! where at thy feet
1olumbla and Britain meet;
my slope recedes to greet the dawn
WheFe flows the picturesque 81 John.
w I'VE toward the sunset can | see
me Presteel flowing lazily
Long mast thou stood and guarded we'll
Afoostooks trusted sentinel
my lonely watch In silence keep
MID glare of day or shadows deep
When spread the forest far and wide
CLOTHING vale and mountain side
Inc red man found quiet home.
Gefe where the wolf and panther roam
torth went the brave with trusty bow
Ana steady aim; that oft brought low
AMID stream of crimson blood.
II Inc antlered monarch of the wood.
my waving trees, upon the air
Watt perfume DER the waters where
Inc beaver building deep and wide
Retards the Presteels flowing tide
Today along the flowing streams
The restless locomotive screams
me #oodman's axe thy slope hath
mafred
Thy forest angry flames have charred.
Now mid thy valleys quiet charms
Are joyous homes and fertile farms
While echoing among the hills
The lively whr of busy mills
t!oats out upon the morning air:
Life IS resounding everywhere.
Mid summers sun and Winters snow
4 nou art the same as long ago,
While changes visit other lands
ArHostooks Rock of Ages stands
Where'er Aroostooks children stray
70 Polar night or Tropic day
They never cease to dream of thee
IN thine imposing majesty. .
Mid burning sands: near flowing streams
SUI thou art woven in their dreams.
MID All their memories Of the past
In bold relief thy form shah last. ~
'The highest point of land in Aroostook
County.
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REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.
IN. Y. Press.l


A man thinks his success is feat,
his failure an accident.
The way to win big profits at specu-
lating is not to do any of it.
The devil was so smart to begin with
he never had to go to school.
There are two choices of what to do
with your money; one is TO waste it
and the other to lose it.
A man tells a secret just the way
a woman does. only he can't fib as
hard about how he didn't.
We have friends to rejoice over their
faults.
Lots of girls have lily white hands
by their mothers not having them.
The way not to be tempted to rob
man is for him to have the drop on
you with pistol.