Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-08-26
Sentinel Had Another Fit.

In spite of their claims of from ~
600 to 25,o0o majority for repeal, IL
Democratic rum press is becomir
more desperate in its search for e.
plosives with which to assail the ram
rodders.' the "hypocrites," the pei
jurers," the liars" etc, etc. Drum
with the money they are receivin
for the many columns daily of Run
Trust advertising, they are givin
demonstrations of what q man WI
do when under the influence.
The Waterville Sentinel ties itse
III double bow-knots in a fit of rag
because the kennebec Journal said:
The foreigner who has escaped
or heen driven from his native land
because of some crime can come
to Maine or any other state of the
Union, swear allegiance to Uncle
Sam and Immediately supplant the
most intelligent woman of Ameri-
ca in making the laws of the land.
HE CAN VOTE! SHE CAN
NOT.
Yet thousands of these foreign
reared citizens who are making our
laws, pay no form of tax to the
government They have no taxable
property and they swap their bal
lot for their poll tax with the cheap
ward heeler who is probably d rep
resentative Of the Liquor Trust.
Do you wonder that the Portland
Argus, the Biddeford Record, the
Waferville Sentinel and the Lewis
ton Sun place the foreign-reared
citizen in front of the women and
children of Maine?
1t is votes these political mounte-
banks are after. and rum buys
votes.
1t is money the Rum Trust is
after and control Of these political
mountebanks means money.
So the Rum Trust joins hands
with the leaders of political par
tv to overthrow the law and politi
cal opposition at the same time.
It is powerful combination,
and nothing but the moral infiu-
ence of the women and children
of Maine can save the State.
Mr.. Voter, are YOU going to vote
for the foreign outlaws who refuge
here, or for the women and chill
dren of Maine?
We reassert the above and that the
home raised thug, the yeggman, the
bum and the outlaw. whether he be
Yankee or Yiddish, will vote with the
Rum Trust forces-the Watervillt
and its class.
Some of our best friends and closes
associates are of foreign extraction
but they are not of the criminal class
es of Europe which refuge here ant
are at once grasped by the Run
Trust because of their votes
II is, and has been for years, til
practice of the liquor interests to ge
control, as soon as possible. of tn
worst class of immigrants, enfran
chise them and vote them. The NOR
debased and brutal these offscouring
of the Old World are the more valu
able they become to the Rum Trust.
The Irish, French, Swede. German
Greek, Norwegian, Pole and citizen
of several other nationalities are anon
our hest. They are among the mos
loyal to our educational, moral ant
civic institutions. None resents til
enfIanchisement of European thugs t
help make Rum Trust laws more thai
our best citizens of foreign extraction
The attempt of much worse thai
useless organ Of a grasping politician
to embroil all citizens of foreign brit
or parentage defeats itself in it's plain
ly obvious subterfuge. Here is
specimen of the language of Stat
Printer Secretary of State Davi.
Watervillian:
We We hold . no brief for the foreign-bor
badge of honor. The fertile fields
New sweden, beautiful Aroostook, II
upper saint John, the humming spindl
OF the kennebec. the Androscoggin ar
the Saeo, the happy homes owned al
paid for, the interest In education, Il
glorious war record. all this and NOR
attests TO the quality of Names foreif
born population
The Journal drives nail in it's coff
when il attacks this half of the State
Maine. The Journal lies when it sa,
they have no taxable property and sw;
their ballot for their poll tax"
tinel places the foreign reared citize
ahead of the women and children
The Sentinel makes no distinction
citizenship ON grounds of birth or Ii
tionality.
you going to vote for the foreign OUTLAY
relish the stigma of s'outiaw'' and 'ref
gee with which the Kennebec Jourr
would brand your You have the bal
and on that ballot Is square, and ov
that square is the word Yes. A y
vote removes the blot from the constit
tion. A yes vote is vote for person
and community liberty. ana also II Is
ers If whom the journal is a fit expone
Yes. Mr.. Citizen. how Will you vote
Sept. nth?
The sentiment of the first paragra
NE fully endorse. For once we agr
with the sentinel We are surpris
that Sec'y. of State Davis organ snou
rive voice to such a wholesome a