Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-07-29

That the Ossipee Valley Herald has
net gone over" to the liquor trust
side is evidenced by the following from
this weeks issue:
II seems to be impossible for either side
| OF the license campaign to keep TO the
SHOWN truth, Even If they did this. there
t Woui ,1 sun be uncertainty enough, beyond
'he iiihts OF known truth
II is known truth that the rumSellers
IN frohibitlon states although those OF
them who have court records, as most of
them nave, do not want a license law
under which none with a court record can
get license, form but an insignificant
part or what is one of the eountry's lead
ing industries the National LIQUOR trade
yet the Portland Argus, day in and DAY
out with monotony more tiresome
than the shrill eeaseless whistle of the
steam peanut-roaster keeps reiterating
the statement that the liquor trade pre-
Ter prohibition rather than license, ig-
norlng the known truth that if other
states could do as much as Maine has
done to suppress the manufacture and
sale of intoxicants there would be little
left of it, and that the national liquor
trade is using huge sums of money drawn
from their profits in license states, to
accomplish the repeal, by far means or
foul. of the statutes outlawing their
business in prohibition States.
II is known truth that men allowed to
sell liquors most of the time, If the Off
elals order them to close up on a circus
day, VIII do il for the sake of the reward
OF being allowed to sell most of the time.
Yet the Portland Press puts out the false
argument that because these places can
be closed up tight by the Sheriff's orders
Tor a day or two, therefore they can be
for all time, whereas il is known truth
attested by so years experience, that IL
the sheriff attempts 10 close them for all
time they will sell what they can in de-
fiance of him.
1t is known truth that the distinguished
body of men in all parts of the world
who have sent an appeal to the voters of
Maine, know great deal better how
license works than the people of Maine
who have not had license since our very
Oldest inhabitants We're young folks. Yet
the Argus puts it forward as though
these distinguished men We're trying to
tell Maine people how Prohibition works
in Maine, absurd and insulting" says
the Argus. Yet it is the most proper
thing in the world for these representa-
tive men to say to US: Don't try IL
cense; We who have tried il for 500 years
know that ii is unsatisfactory. 1t seems
to us impossible that Prohibition can be
worse than license, and for our part, as
soon as ever We can overcome the OBJ
staces in the way, We shall try rrohibi-
ton" The Argus is out looking for in
suits when ii calls anything like that in
sulting.
1t is known truth that if public OFF,
cial offends certain class of voters in
Guiding draft beer lovers, politicians, real
estate owners and statute violators. he is
official and political life when he first
comes up for re-appointment or re-
election. Yet the Portland Express, ig-
noring what they and everybody we'll
knows, claims that because an official
can suppress rumselling over Sundays,
holidays and circus day, he can therefore
do ii permanently.
1t is known truth that the present legis-
lature of Maine is in favor of local OPP
ton license and that Governor Plaisted
is ready to call them together 10 change
the statutes from Prohibition to License
If the Yes vote should prevail on Septem-
Der IL. Yet the Argus reiterates, and in
sists on reterating, and daily reiterates
its insistence, that the question TO be
voted on is merely one of amending the
Constitution, although not one man is
known in the entire State who will vote
to take Prohibition out of the Con
stitution who is not i'm favor of repeating
II from the Statutes also
In so difficult and many sided ques-
ton, ii seems as though the known truths
might be given a show