Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-09-08

lied adultery and thievary where they
1re wanted Aren't we reasonable?
We hate 70 STE the liquor interests
BY ;heir present long-dis-
lance fight with the temperance forces
o. Maine. We want to see the liquor
interests get the insode chance to tight
every year in our legislature for more
favorable laws We want to be gener-
aus and give our legislators a chance
to d. an annual business with the liq-
uef interests. as do the legislators of
loca! option Vermont and New Hamp-
shire This sort OF a privilege in Maine
ought not to be limited to the eoilu-
sions of county and city officials with
kitchen bar-room scamps. We believe
in big things for Maine, ana that
means a bigger liquor business twelve
times bigger than we can now claim,
as the whole United States enjoys.
Churches Have Advantage.
We want to see everyone conduct
ing n respectable business. Isn't il a
shame that the churches can have a
place on the best streets of Rockland,
with newspaper notices, and With bull
their denominations, services and invi-
tations TO enter, while the saloons are
crowded on to that disreputable DEVILS
happy huntinG-gr ground. the Point. or
into the back room of some hotel, no
signs allowed over the door. no bottles
and beer kegs in the windows. no bars,
bar tenders and customers to be seen
through the open doors. no inviting
beer smell satnrating the street air
outside as in the license citiesso of Mas
sachusetts, nothing To make a stranger
who isn't hunting for liquor know that
saloon is handy with its uplifting
associations its healthful drinks. its
inspiration to sebriety, thrift. patriot
ism. education sanity. prosperity
righteousness, happiness. love of Goo
and love of man?
We believe in personal liberty gor all
Our liquor sellers are handicapped in
getting a living, our drunkards and
moderate drinkers are restricted in the
pursuit of happiness, our boys and
young men of I,ockland haven't hall
the opportunity of learning To drink
and becoming drunkards as have the
boys OF Boston. Every hoy in Boston
knows where saloons are without look
Ing ?or them-they hook for him-but
our poor boys have to he told where
they are, have co hunt them out OF
be led into them by the Initiated. A
country boy coming into Rockland
wouldn't recognize our saloons unless
he were more anxious 10 find ther
than a Job. Is this right? Shonldn'i
the country boy coming into Rockland
recognize the saloon just as easily a.
he does the church? Shouldn't he see
the saloon here jus. as readily as Il
he went to Boston? Isn't this unfaii
discrimination in favor of Boston? oh
the outrage of this Maine Prohibition
And they tell us it is enforced in some
towns much better than in Rockland
In Name Of Personal Liberty"
In the name of personal liberty Lei
us Kill Prohibition and resurrect Loea
Option. We want personal liberty Il
drink, to go to the poor house, tn,
insane asylum, the Jail and 10 hell
while everybody else must help pa,
the bills. Think of it, The ayerag,
man in the local option states con
sumes % gallons of liquor year. blu
we poor slaves here in Maine, groan
ing under tho calling yoke of Prnhtbi
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