Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-06-09
overreachine Themselves.

ONCitcaShttS tNS''SS'sS~
In their claims that they will be
able 10 secure against the prohibitory
amendment the votes of a large per-
centase of the farmers of the State
the rum interests have oyerreaehed
themselves Their blatant Dragging
that if they break even in the cities
they are sure of winning with the aid
of the country vote has set temper
ance workers to the task of finding
our what sophistries win be placed
before the farmers and their sons 10
induce them to vote for what their
intelligence teaches them must be in
herently wicked and devilish.
The nature of these arguments and
the need of sending literature through
out the country to meet them was set
forth in graphic language by DIR.
Purley A Baker the general superin-
tendent of the National Anti-Saloon
League of America when he spoke in
Augusta a few evenings ago The
farmers will be told that prohibition
would be all right, if it could be en-
forced, but that as il cannot be en-
forced the best way is to have regu-
lated saloons and let the license fees
lower the farmers taxes.
The cat is out of the bag, and If
there is anything that the sturdy
farmers of the State resent ii is an
attempt TO fool them. SO when they
stop to consider that whatever can be
said of failure in the enforcement of
the prohibitory law can be said twice
over in regard TO failures which re-
suit in the enforcement of license laws
THAT INCREASED SALOONS
MEANS INCREASED TAXES, BE-
CAUSE THE BURDEN TO THE
COUNTY OF THE PAUPERISM AND
CRIME CAUSED BY THE SALOONS
WILL RAISE THE TAX TWICE
WHAT THE LICENSE FEES
WOULD REDUCE IT--they will find
that their creduiity has been imposed
upon by the lies of desperate inter-
ests. And they will express their in
dignation at the polls by not only vot-
ing, No themselves, but by Undue
ing all whom they can reach by the
sound of their voices to vote mo" to
the proposition of abrogating and an
he oh Es,u
Names bulwark and defense and has
made her strong in public councils
above the other States of the Union.
The Biddeford champion of the H.
ouor interests. always behind in the
procession as to real news, has just
discovered what every prohibition
worker In Maine has known for the
past 10 days. that the rum interests
were to allow the cities to take care
of themselves and center every effort
upon the country towns. Just listen
to its simperings.
cate that there is considerable sentiment
IN favor of the repeal of constitutional
prohibition in the rural sections, IL is a
bad outlook for the cause That the vote
in the cities and larger towns will be
very strongly in favor of repeal is gem
orally conceded. To offset this a practi-
cally solid vote in the rural section is
necessary to retain the present law and
this is what the prohibitionists have
been claiming. Reports from several
York county towns show a strong senti-
ment for repeal. IL this sentiment pre-
walls in the smaller towns of York
county, II is fair to suppose that il is the
same In the rural districts of other
counties.
All the sentiment there is in the
rural sections in favor of the repeal
OF. constitutional prohibition is manu-
featured sentiment and the Biddeford
organ having just learned that fact
and by whom and for what purpose it
has been manufactured proceeds to
laugh up its sleeve. like Foxy CUTLER.
But he laughs longest who laughs
last and the joke in the end will be
on the rum interests who have over
reached themselves by Dragging of
how they were going TO fool the far
mer.