Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-05-05
The Power of the Liquor Trust.

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newspapers in one day leave no doubt
as to how that party stands on the
liquor question. Democracy boasts its
opposition to the prohibitory law and
parades its defiance of every better
civic element in the State. In oppose
ton to the church, w. C. T. T.. other
temperance societies, Grange various
clubs and orders, and all those who
are joining hands for the sanetity OF
the home and the uplifting of the
morals of the young-and the saving
of those with overpowering appetites
from emselves-Democratic leaders
and newspaper organs are WORKING
WITH MIGHT AND MAIN FOR
LIQUOR TRUST DOLLARS.
In every city secret representatives
are putting out new inducements to
dealers and tightening their grip on
the appetites of those addicted to the
drink habit by generous offerings of
jntoxicants. This is bound to count
next September in the vote. All the
damnable skill of that servant of the
devil, the trained liquor salesman is
being brought to bear to hold the vote
of every friend of the convivial cup
and his friends to vote for the liquor
trust.
The No-License committee should
not be overconfident. There is work
to do Now as never before the
LIQUOR INTERESTS ARE CON
GENERATING THEIR ENGERIES
UPON MAINE. They are urging
upon their cohorts that Maine is the
keystone of the arch of prohibition.
on it has been erected the national
movement and with it's crumbling the
whole structure will fall.
Let us not only re-estabish the law
but give Governor Plaisted and his
henchman such a lesson in the Cow
cred bridge" business as will never
be forgotten.
The next Legislature of Maine
should be elected with the understand
ing that enforcement la VS. shall be en-
: acted of a strength such as no State
has yet conceived; laws that will
make the Maine covered bridge as
tight and dry as the proverbial wood
pecker's hole.
The campaign for senators and rep
resentatiyes to the next Maine Legis-
lature should begin now and let no
man hope for election who has not an
nounced his position on this great
question.
If the liquor law has been. as the
Democrats and friends of the liquor
trust claim, farce, LET'S MAKE IT
SOMETHING TO BE FEARED AND
RESPECTED.
The half hearted ones are more dam
gerous than the avowed opponents of
the law. They are the ones to- nail
to the beam. If man talks to you
about preferring the agency system
IF it were possible to secure HONEST
MEN for agents" just ask him if he
would engage in selling an article that
never was known to do good yet had
robbed millions of human bodies of
their souls; an article that is every
day taking needed food from the
mouths, and clothing from the forms,
of helpless women and children. and
still call himself honest"
They viii also tell of naming "hon-
est men for the holders of licenses
under the hopedfor regime. Don't
let them talk this honesty" business
for representatives of Old Split Hoof,
There is no honesty in the business
of selling liquor on which nine tenths
of all crime is founded.
A WEAK OR DISHONEST MAN of
education. or of social or political
position, does more harm to good
cause than ten acknowledged bad men.
The man of political or social position
who pats youth on the back and
laughs at and condones their sprees is
the very right hand of the evil one.
Such man ruins more of the rising
generation in a decade than he could
save in thousand years, were he to
awaken to his own true worth. Ten
thousand such souls as his could dance
on the point of a cambria needle. Yet
that is the kind of men with the glad
hand, the perpetual campaign smile.
the ready cigar and the drink behind
the door, that accept Rum Trust dol
lars to debauch the youth of their
State. Such men stand before the
youth as an example of ''one who can
take a drink or let it alone" AS a
matter Of fact they never let it alone,
and their stock argument is always
az ready as their bottle in desk or
closet, to CONVINCE THE YOUNG
MAN THAT HE Is HOB NoBBING
WITH THOSE HIGHER UP AND is