Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-07-25
Herds the Answer, and More.

Kennebec Journal know Oh any - S'e,Ii so -,
ab;ob II would be possible to force ii up
on Greene? 1t cannot point TO any az
vocacy of any such system by Inc sun
Lewiston sun.
II could be opened up just as we
have pointed out, score of times 10
Won and our other readers-by having
legal footing so close at hama as
Lewiston, from which to work openly
and defiantly, to implant its trahc
under the nose of the citizens OF
Greene. until, one after another they
fall before its attacks.
The next argument in the rum trust
progressive education (Which we pre-
srme the Sun would like to take UP with
the others) Isl Towns all around
Greene are wet and deriving revenue
from their licenses, what hypocritieal
fools the people of Greene are that
they do not sell licenses and help pay
taxes that way! With other towns ali
around them selling legal rum there Is
lust as much drunk in Greene as in
the other towns. why doesn't Greene
go wet and get some money out OF
the drunkenness she has TO surfer!
Isn't that the argument" that the
Sun desires to use2
we want an answer and we want
it prompt"
Does not the Sun believe that with
Lewiston supplied with dozen such
places as the city liquor agency has
heen-and worse-that there would be
more liquor sold in the town?
Does not the suns editor believe
that the city would offer more tempta-
ton to the country boys from Greene
and other surrounding towns?
Does the editor of the Sun believe
that largely increased sale of in
toxicating liquor in Lewiston would
improve any business but the rum
business?
Does the editor of the Sun believe
it would improve the morals of the
people of Lewiston to have more rum
sold there. and to have it given the
of legal recognition?
Does the editor of the Sun think
more children would wear good shoes:
does he think more homes would be
!, INV ~ h,,oipaee which ia pou-
hidden and outlawed were opened up
to legitimate competition with the
grocer. the dry goods man, the shoe
healer and the maker of newspapers?
Has the editor of the Sun any faith
n the logic which provides him
livelihood and his employees a living
Advertising?
Will the editor of the Sun contend
hat the legalizing of the saloon and
the advertising of it's traffic-all kinds
Of intoxicants in the windows display
that the sales would not increase?
Does the editor of the Sun believe 1t
is the drinkers in Maine who are max
ing such a desperate attempt to re-
peal the law, or will he admit that the
fight is being engineered. financed and
pushed by those who make the drinks
% sell?
Is the editor of the Sun anxious to
urn over more of the business of he
grocer, the shoe dealer and the
,lothier of Maine to the brewer and
The distiller of Portsmouth. Cincin-
natl, Milwaukee and Chicago?
Which is of most importance to the
editor of the Sun, the homes of Maine
or the friendship of the out-of- State
liquor interests?
The Kennebee Journal DOES know
of "a system of dealing with the
liquor traffic under which it would be
possible to force it upon Greene" 1t
is the very system which the editor of
the Sun is now advocating-locaI Ii
cense. With Lewiston "wet''-as it
would be, in spite of the opposition of
its churches, educators and most in
telligent opulation-Greene would be
next door neighbor to the rum shop
which is now in Boston. Greene could
not keep rum beyond it's borders un-
der such conditions. any more than
Maine can keep it out. with the inter-
state commerce law propagating he
rum business
1t is easier to get liquor from Lew
iston to Greene than from Boston. It
is harder to enforce the law in a
dry town, when the defiant liquor
seller can stand on the other side of
an imaginary line and thumb his nose
at Greene's officials. at the same time
he is waving a bottle of liquor and
reckoning Greene's boys to come over
and have drink
For the editor of the Sun to attempt
to prove that the present violators of
the law are going to vote for prohibi-