Daily Kennebec journal., 1911-04-12
Paid Talk of "Prohibition's Failure"

| obviously inspired by the liquor III
! iterests, attempts to show the failure
of prohibition in the South 1t is the
same old stereotyped argument oi
| give me your dollars and YOUR SOU
and | will give you lot of fun" II
| furnishes half tone cuts of evidence
of the laws violation in mute declara-
ton that no such thing would be
necessary were it not for the law op.
posing the unholy traffic. A striking
cut is of the outfit of "boot-legger,
| the lowest type of human vulture who
secures d continuance of his own lazy
| worthless existence by dickering in
| the souls and bodies of his fellows.
But the most striking part of it lies
in the fact that the vender would not
stand for his picture along with his
| outfit. Low as he was and useless, a
| blot on Gods creation, he yet had shf-
fcient of shame for his occupation
that he did not care to be identified
with it.
The writer talks smoothly of public
sentiment" which may be interpreted
as response to the persuading powers
of rum trust dollars" The same
public sentiment" is found in Maine
and everywhere that men with appa-
ttes are found along side the politi-
clans who gamble in futures of fam
ilics for the sake of votes. That is
what the Liquor Trust and its friends
are pleased to term public sentiment" ;"
They are spending millions annually,
of their unholy dollars in creating
such public sentiment" because it
brings back two for one.
In the next few months Maine is
to be flooded with literature telling of
such sentiment" and giving all sorts
of cunning arguments dictated by Old
Split-Hoof himself. If you receive
these stories of failure of prohibition
in the South" please remember the
noble battle that was waged by the
W. C. +. t., the church and real pub
lie sentiment to plant the banner of
prohibition in the South in the first
place. Then remember the constant
war 10 maintain every foothold while
winning others.
= These paid henchmen of the liquor
interests will tell you that prohibition
does not prohibit but breeds de-
fiance of the law" They DO not tell
you that lack of law breeds contempt
of its cowardliness. 1t is a terrible
thing, in the minds of these paid
writer's of the liquor interests, to
breed defiance of the law, when the
same damnable combination that is
paying them. is hiring men 10 reddle
its product in defiance of law.
The rum trust teaches and pur-
chases defiance and contempt of law
daily, and hypocritically complains
that the law breeds defiance Of itself
because of its own existence. That is
the logic they are offering the public
in connection with their claims of
public sentiment
They tactfully admit that the com
plants against the saloons in many
parts of the South were we'll founded"
because they became schools of vice,
and to them were traced grea. por-
ton of the crimes agains. women"
Was there er n sa.oon that was not
a school of vice? Would any person
ever go to saloon of any sort for any
other information than vice? Is that
not the first place a man of base pas
sions would go for information con-
cernng his chosen resort? Was any
good eve" known to come out of any
sort of saloon or place supporting
bar or furnishing liquor?
These questions are to he considered
and answered by the people of Maine
next September.