Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-09-04

per cent. u Tue democratic party
| vas, in favor OF the prohibitory
| law and against resubmission as
an issue, and this gentleman's
candidacy dropped out of sight
j So you can have no hesitancy
in branding that article as false
( in every essential particular and
an absolute misrepresentation of
things as they are in Kansas. and
Is only another illustration of the
fact that the liquor dealers viii
stcop to anything TO carry their
point and deceive the people.
Very Sincerely,
d. II. SWITZEE.
The article referred to. and which
the Argus and certain other Maine
papers led their readers to believe
represents PRESENT conditions in
Kansas, used many OF the same argu-
mentS that are being echoed over and
over, daily, by the rum press of
Maine. One of its "pithy" points is in
effect that Joints sell fluids for whis-
key that ruin a drinkcr phs sieally
in q few months
The poor liquors argument is ono
OF the first always put out by he IL
quor interests They would have you
understand that it costs much NOR"
TO send GOOD liquors by express than
it does POOR liquors. They would
make you believe that after man
has paid $1,000 foa a license he VIII not
be a cheap tricky. constituencies rum
seller lust the same and that, hay
ing paid high license ard fitted up
an attractive saloon he can much bet
ter afford to give GOOD liquors ;hat
win NOT kill yon in a few months.
As matter Of fact, the rum seller
does not want you to die in few
months. You are worth more To him
alive than dead; while it is just as
true that the patron of a saloon is al
most invariably worth more dead 10
his family. friends aud neighbors. The
misery living drunkard causes those
near TO him causes a grateful feeling
toward the fluid that kills in few
months"
But, really. the poor liquors lie is the
ranliest idioey put forth by the liquor
interests and the rum press of Maine.
Only one other argument used by
them is so absolutely idiotic and will
fully, maliciously and Intentionally
false and misleading, and that is
shown in the following clipped from
last weeks New Age. owned and edit
ed by Governor Plaisted:
EVERY LIQUOR LAW OK THE
h ( MEN lsr j is TAKEN FROM THE
CONSTITUTION
This plainly apparent attempt to in
fuence the unwary to take the first
false step toward the Rum Trust ideal. |
is only TO be compared with the at !
tempt of charaeterless. constituencies.
vile, immoral sots to get the first drink |
of liquor into an innocent boy. The |
wholly obvious lie that removing the |
law from the constitution makes no
change in the law. may be answered
by asking, then why bother it?" But |
the facts are that it is the intention |
OF the Democratic Governor to issue a |
cali to the Legislature for a special |
session to change the law the very |
" eek it is removed from the constitu-
tion--if it should be.
Just why Governor Plaisted and his |
who are backed and sup |
ported by the liquor interests, wish the |
law removed from the constitution is |
shown in New Hampshres rapid in |
crease of rum sales; 473 arrests for |
drunkenness the last year of prohibit
ton; S3G, the first year Of license; 1887
the second year, 1897 the third year, |
ana 21S1 the fourth year.
Seeing the inevitable increase in |
sales of liquor and drunkenness,
WHOSE BOY WOULD YOU RUIN
FIRST at an open bar in Maine?
Knowing that the liquor interests |
are fighting, with the aid of the Demo
cratic administration, to remove the |
Maine law from the constitution, FOR
"A PURPOSE, what do you take that
purpose to be. and do you want
Names first saloon next to your home
or store?
Do you want your boy or your neigh |
boris boy to be one of the new ones
called to support the licensed saloons
of Maine-to prevent present topers
from drinking bad liquors" To fur
nish personal liberty" for the pres
ent rummies of Maine. to help pay the
revenue which towns and cities would
derive from engaging in the rum
business?
License Law Never Enforced.
The representatives of the liquor in