Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-08-04

make their home, and choose
Maine solely because we have pro-
hibition.
Only this morning / received a
letter from a prospective farm
buyer from Connecticut who says:
Hold on to your prohibition. /
shall not buy Maine farm If you
don't
/ thought perhaps this might in
terest you.
w. d. Hutchins Company,
W. D. HUTCHINS.
President
Augusta, July 20.
1t does interest us. for it confirms
other letters and reports which We
have published showing that men and
families have fled to Maine to escape
the oppression of the licensed liquor
traffic
II interests us because it proves that
a prominent and successful business
sees and approves the benefits of pro-
hibitien.
1t interests us because it shows that
respectable people approve of our can
did and forceful way of dealing with
a public menace. 1t proves that in
telligent people are not influenced by
the blatherskites who assail US in at
tempt to scare us out of the field.
In its Saturday issue the Bildeford
Record tries once more to drive the
kennebec Journal from the fight by
growing boot" But we are unafraid
We learned, long ago, that the quick
est and surest way to deal with a.
thug is to knock him down; then he
may listen to reason. When meeting
an ilIiterate and plug ugly enemy it is
safest to meet him with his own weap
ens
That is why we feel at times that
we owe apology to our readers Wei
are Obliged to use very blunt English
in order that some of our abusive OPP
ponents may understand what We
mean.
Now, they whine and complain-thesel
past masters in billingsgate and coarse
yiilification-that the Kennebec jour
nal is running amuck" among the
Observation-Disclosures. Running riot" is
another favorite expression they are
using to characterize the Journals
methods of dealing with Rum Trust
organs.
Good If we have stirred EN- up and
have driven them to the last resort of
the defeated debater-personal abuse
we are glad of it. We can stand it,
and, at the same time, we would as
sure them that we have a lot more to
say on this question.
No amount of slurs and snarls and
senrrilous attacks win turn our pur-
pose Indeed, the manner in which the
Argus. Record and Sentinel have
yapped at our heels has introduced us
10 hundreds of new readers. 1t is be-
coming quite the custom among the
readers of the above named trio to
write to us in substance as follows:
Please send copy of your paper con-
tanning the article to which the -
refers in it's editorial attack on you"
Anotherwrites; please find check en-
closed for years subscription to the
Kennebec Journal. From what the
other papers are saying about you, you
must be making paper worth read
ing am Disguised with the -"
There are others equally to the
point and interesting. And not day
passes that we do not receive letters of
approval and thanks from Maine 5
most highly respectable people These
would encourage US to go on, had we
any personal doubt as TO the wisdom of
waging an aggressive campaign
against the forces of an outlawed, dis
reputable and discredited traffic, boil
stored and doomed by falsehood and
chicanery.
In al its aspects the bombardment
of the Kennebec journal by Portland,
Biddeford and Waterville is laughable
While one is accusing us of using Ian
guage almost as bad as its own, an
other sneers about our hypocrisy and
..oily pretense" OF course they do not
expect their readers TO have the read
ing of any other paper, so feel conf
dent of proving their case at home.
We may be running amuck among
the opponents OF prohibition, as the
Argus says, but we seem TO have ac-
complished our purpose OF putting
them on the defensive. We seem to
have the entire Demo-rum press of
Maine By the ears. and while they are
- ~ they will not be perpe-