The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1911-08-17

ton, who has been touring through
out the State for the past month il
the interests of prohibition and VIII
conducted two highly interesting
meetings at Second Parish church
Portland, Tuesday and Wednesda,
evening, was the first speaker Their
Friday. His address was an entirel,
new oneP and during the course Of hi
remarks he introduced several illus
trative charts which gave an idea o
the effect of liquor on individual
from an economic standpoint. HI
then exhibited several of the Scar
cartoons published in one of ou
morning papers, and refused many o
the misleading statements used by
this publication in connection with
these cartoons. DR.. Crafts said in
part:
GOOD MAN CARTOONS.
1.-THE statement of temperance lead
ers that the forces arrayed against
prohibition include the distillers
brewers, liquor sellers, gamblers, and
white slave dealers, and that all OF
these criminal and evil-minded per-
sons that can vote will surely vote
for repeal of prohibition in Maine, has
called out acres of cartoons in the
Portland Argus, which seeks to break
its force by showing that some of the
good are on that side.
"In every moral conflict there is
sure to be occasion for the prayer
God save us from the mistakes oil
great men, aye, of good men, There
is scarcely a moral battle in the his
tory of the United States against
gambling, the white slave traffic or
any other evil in which some preach
er has not taken the wrong side
Good men among the rank and file OF
the voters who have been influenced
by the cartoons which aim to disprova
the statement of Mrs. Stevens that the
gamblers and corrupt elements gen
orally will vote against the retention
of the constitutional prohibition, may
we'll ponder the striking remark of a
quaint fellow in Riverside, Calf
when that city, one year, through
carelessness and false security of its
good people went back to the saloon
He explained the situation to an In
quirer, by saying: Four 'g's' did 1t;
the gamblers, the greasers. the ga
loots and some of the good
When some of the good'find them
selves at the ballot box lined up with
gamblers, greasers and galoots for
any reason, they should take them
selves in hand and ask sharply wheth-
er it is probable they are acting wise
ly and rightly in any movement that
takes them into such strange fellow
ship. There is no doubt that all the
gamblers, the greasers and the ga
loots in Maine will vote for the re-
peal of prohibition, but they cannot
repeal it unless they are able to de-
ceive some of the good That is
what they have done to a small ex-
tent That is why they are trying to
do a sufficiently large extent to get
the State into their own hands.
at becomes necessary, therefore, to
show the voter who begins to sus-
pect he must be on the wrong tack
when he is in cahoots with the worst
elements of society, that he will have
some good company in opposing pro-
hibition. The publicity agents Of the
liquor dealers have, therefore, search
ed far and wide for some ancient ~
modern remark of some good man
that seems to antagonize statewide
prohibition and have held this VI
with the portrait of the man quoted
to give the impression that anti-pro
hibitionists are quite pious and IL
lustrious company.
This imposing portrait gallery, OF
close exam nation, will be found L
have very little weight in the presen
discussion. The case of several o
these men is like that Of Carolina
Gibbons, who, writing with reference
to local option for Maryland as a stel
in advance, expressed his approva
oft, and, having the great city o
Baltimore in his thought, also ex
pressed a doubt as to the feasibilit.
of statewide prohibition. No one
/ has any right to infer from that VIVA
he would say in regard to local op
/ ton as a retreat from more ad
vanced position and in a State wher'
there was nc large city approxlmat
ing Baltimore In size. And so far al
this quotation is intended to plac
the Catholic church in the anti-prohi
bition column, it is offset by the ring
ing appeals of Archbishops Irelan'
and Keane for the complete suppress
sion of liquor selling and the declar
ations of Maine Catholics for tn
maintenance of prohibition.
NO REFERENCE TO MAINE.
Gov. Woodrow Wilson has ais
protested against the use OF hi
RENE and portrait in its anti-prohibi