Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-09-06

friend think the more than $40 900, 0oO
additional annually would have come
from? Does he not think il would
have made q difference in the number
of unmortesiged farms? Does ne think
Maines savings deposits would today
be 81, 100000 more than those of the
great license state of Ohio which has
six times our population? Docs he
think Maine would have Decreased
the number OF insane and paupers
while license Massachusetts was IN
creasing her paupers and insane Just
as rapidly?
We could go on with columns Of
statistics which we have published
over and over. proving that PkOHI-
BITION HAS BEEN, i'll spite of its
distinguished enemies, \ MOST PO-
TENT AND POWERFUL ECONOMIC
FACTOR in Names welfare and prog
ross, in EVERY way
There is no question about it among
idiF-ItllIIQtu men VIM Ill Z Ilpb BitJH
diced 10y political or pecuniary inter-
ests. The liquor interest advocates
have not single valid argument; all
is based on selfish desire and disre-
gard of the rights of community. the
progress of humanity and moral de-
cency of the present.
There certainly Is something wrong
in this State, 1t has been wrong from
the minute the Maine law was enact
ed. 1t has continued all these years.
and in recent years has grown worse.
Does man of the intelligence of our
Skowhcgan friend pretend not to know
what is wrong2 1t is easily explained
\ child can understand.
From the moment the prohibitory
law was enacted it was assailed BY the
makers and sellers of intoxicants. and
by political jealousies. Not for one
moment has this abuse and ridicuie of
the law ceased. 1t has been the con-
slant and untiring aim of the liquor
interests to undermine the Maine law
BECAUSE IT LESSENED THEIR
SALES.
Politicians have assailed the Maine
law from all angles because they could
win votes with rum when they could
not with money, and because they
could draw on the liquor interests for
contributions to campaign
funds by putting an anti-proEibition
plank i'm their platforms.
Temperance societies became mac
tive after the law was placed in the
where they believed it
safe from INSCRIPTIONS politicians The
liquor interests worked OH, ceaselessly
and in the dark They perfected their
plans and took the Democratic party
leaders in hand when a generation had
grown up that had seen all the evils
II unenfoleed prohibitory law while
knowing almost nothing of license
laws Thousands OF Names young
and middle-aged men have never seen
a saloon and they believe what the
Rum Trust and Democratic literature
tells them. that regulation regulates"
That last is the most unforgiveable
lie of all; ask any man from license
state whether or not the license law is
violated in EVERY manner. We are
overwhelmed with incidents. figures
and proof of the damnable systems
perfected under Rum Trust influence
in local option and Statewide license
territory
1t is NOT the prohibitory law that
is wrong but those men who encour-
age the illiterate, the characterless and
the criminal to violate the law. Men
in high places assail the law for no
other purpose, and thus appeal to the
baser passions and prejudices of men.
That is bad politics and rum--the
most evil mixture that the devil has
yet conceived.
Think these things over, friend VIM
ter. and vote. not for a prejudice, d
political whim or as revenge against
an acknowledged lesser evil, but to
shut out much greater evil and TO
preserve all the progress that has been
made toward Graduating the liquor