Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-09-09
Study Our Cartoon.

our cartoon OF this issue has been
carefully drawn by Artist Thayer, not
TO represent the typical saloon where
license is of long standing; where
boys are at the bar or drunk in a
corner: where women, lost to all
sense of womanhood. are iDdulging in
sickening orgies, but to represent
what might be expected in Maine in
the first few months OF a license
system.
In Artist Thayer's cartoon you see
no boys. no women drinking: you see
no children about the door watching
Tor fathers who are spending the
money they sorely need for bread or
clothing; you see only sober business
men patronizing a legal resort. All
parties in sight are within their
rights. for to make this scene possible
the community must have entered
partnership with the saloon keeper
and L. sharing the profits.
Maine people would not tolerate for
a moment. in the early advent Of the
saloon. such conditions as are typical
in old license localities. For time
they would have TO look and behave
as pictured by our cartoonist. Grad
naily they would reach the stages
they alwa%s reach-a snk-hole Of in
ifN .
munity, the breeding place of lust
and crime--but Maine people would
net stand for that now; they could
not understand it; they. as whole.
dc not now. believe such things posi-
BILE
But, respectable" as this place APP
pears. do you want it near your home
or place of business?
Would you be guilty of placing il
near the home or place of business OF
your aeigllbor?
Do you know of any respectable per.
sun who would want this most re.
spectacle of al saloons near hi.
home?
Would you want even this saioor
near the schools which your children
attend? ~ Fets
Would you feel any safer about your
children il this respectable appearing
saloon were gsloeated near Cony High
school. Or Edward Little High, or
Waterpille High or any other prepare
tory school or. college of Maine?
Do you know where Adolphus Busch,
the northumberland brewer resides
IT i'd at Pasadena, Cal, the dryest of
all dry" places. DO you know why
he lives there? 1t is because he
wishes to he as far as possible from
saloons and those who frequent them.
He would avoid the disgusting speci-
mems of humanity out of which he
has squeezed his millions. He would
not rear his children where they would
come in contact with such places and
persons.
Yet this same millionaire is send
ing money to be used by cheap poll
ticians and worthless newspapers to
establish saloons in Maine.
You think you would object to hav-
ing this saloon next your home, but
you would hardly expect the rich
brewers of Milwaukee to object to the
establishment of saloons in that part
of the city Where they live. That is
true, however. They did not want a
saloon located where it would temp
their boys. They have no use for a sa-
loon other than as a means by which
to exact money from some poor soul
who has become a slave to the liquor
habit. that it may enrich them, but
they do not want their boys to FREE
qnent such places.
These brewers do not care what be-
comes of your boys, and that is why
they have bought the influence of a
certain class Of politicians to innict
on y9ur boys that which they viii not
toIerite where 1t win influence their
- .7sn -ysffihp ~
ii fhis: clean pleasant-iooking sa-
loon fweirre Is be established in your
community. in what way Is it 70 bring
Anr4Sr4pex 70 you or your Business