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

sworn 10 enforce prohibition, brought
the Jaw into disrepute
! THIN the cry was made. chiefly by
1.-The SILICON the law is failure
r II Maine could have been separated
from the outside world and left to her
levin resources, untrammeled by the
red trail of the serpent coiled in the
hrewo RIGS and distilleries of other
states, she would have controlled her
Town interests and the law would not
Ihave SO often proved a dead letter.
Maine has been forced to contend with
all the powers of hell inearnated in
the saloon. which is the sole instigator
and cause of the ridieule heaped upon
/ the law.
And now the saloon has the brazen
audacity TO cry out in the face Of its
damning work. The law Is Il farce
and must be repealed
No one can be blind to the fact that
, the failure of every officer to enforce
/ il has not been defect in the law.
hut in the power that welded the law.
Then saloon patrons cry the law
has failed and prohibition must die
and be buried forever
| They thus virtually doom themselves
| TO ignominy and everlasting disgrace.
For the verdict they pass upon the law
| is the verdict righteous God passes
upon the lawbreaker. which is the sa-
| loon.
So The saloon must be buried and
not the law. When the lawbreaker is
| damned. the law will be the crowned
victor and vindicate its right 10 live
| forever. Then the wisdom of the law
makers will be heralded through earth
and heaven.
SO then let this conspiracy. tworthy
only of the dark ages, to break down
! righteous law be overthrown and the
| willy stratagem of the internal saloon
| IS the chief agent in bringing about
| this crisis be exposed and annihi1ated.
Then mark the subtlety with which
| the war was waged in the Legislature
and has been conducted ever since.
| The people have no voice in their own
affairs and now the present genera
| ton must be allowed to speak for it
self. Who said this? Not the people
but its saloon champion. The plea is
IN its face plausible. but the voice be-
| trays the enemy. If the saloon had
| not been back of this resubinsSion
project disguised as fake pleader for
| the So called DOWNTRODDEN and
| OPPRESSED people. surely when it
was submitted for the righteous YER
diet of the present generation. then the
saloon would have retreated with lis
1ccursed traffic and left the people I'M
| trammeled for an honest. unbiased
| verdict.
Then the new administration from
the Governor down would have pub
llished their honesty by putting the sa-
| loon under the ban of rigid scrutiny.
demonstrating their loyalty TO their
oath of office by action that would
have inmortalized their memory and
jperpetuated their administration.
| Justice would then have had a fair
show. The law being strictly enforced,
the disrepute of prohibition would have
been removed and the people would
have risen en- masse and perpetuated
without question the sacred heritage
OF our fathers, for the coming genera
| ton. Instead of this the breweries aud
Idistilleries are now permitted TO pour
their liquid poisons into our State more
rapidly than ever and money is being
plete the disguised plot to capture
Maine fer the saloon, while officers are
more recreant than ever.
Then instead of giving the people a
voice in self-government they allure
the people to forfeit their own benest.
and declare that our fathers entailed
a curse upon us when they locked up
prohibition IN the constitution for safe
keeping.
Furthermore to fool the people and
ldarken counsel without knowledge, the
Non-Partisan Local Self Government
League assumed a FALSE name to
conceal its real purpose.
| Long ere this its disguise should
have been more fully disclosed, and
it's satanic import made prominent.
Then when flying sheets We're waited
| into homes to deceive the very elect.
| the people would have been on guard.
Here is the TRUE BRAND that should
have sounded the alarm and warned
the people in sea son to defend their
| homes.
| At the head Of every column and at
| the foot of every paragraph in the
black and red bulletins of the League
should have been seen in living coiors
the true spirit of this organization.
To have made this appear so the
enemy would no longer have been
masked. the federation should have
| been named
| NON-PAKTISAN SALOON Gov
EMINENT LEAGUE.
It's foul purposes true to it's record
} would have then saved the people from
its snares Bur truth and righteous
ness are to be allowed to win, while
falsehood and willy intrigues are put
under the. ban of final doom.
A proclamation shall be published to
all the world that the present genera
Itio, revere the wisdom of our fathers
and propose to beaGeath our sacred
heritage OF wealth. prosperity and
freedom to our children, insured by
constitutional prohibition And We
will send to the 40 nations and mighty
champions of victory who have ex-
tended their greetings to us, the no.
blest example and highest standard of
righteousness fortified by the wise ex-