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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-07-31

pie had endured too long and too ma
tiently. They had nursed their eriey
ances in silence or aired them only i'm
polite epigrams: and so when polite-
ness gave way the only alternative was
ferocity
The moral is that we should not inn
pose upon ourselves burdens greater
than We can bear or aim at an iInnosI
sihle standard of perfection This an.
plies Just as much to domestic as to
political matters, Perfect politeness In
the home is delightful and most aesir-
able if it accurately expresses the feel.
ings. 1t becomes dangerous when it
ceases to express them. for then 1t is
often sign of mere Indifference or
cold contempt or of desire to be tech
nically in the right at all costs. AS a
nation we are certainly quarrelsome in
our homes; we lack the discipline of
the French. TO whom an open domestic
quarrel is usually a very serious mat
ter. since 1t expresses an evaporation
long suppressed We do not suppress
our exasperations, and in consequence
the domestic nuisance is rather CON-
mon object in our homes. But on the
other hand we at least attempt much
more intimacy In our homes than most
other nations; and we find that intim-
acy is not compatible with extreme
politeness.
You cannot live on the closest terms
with any one unless you tell them
piainly when they irritate YOU in great
or small matters If YOU do not tell
them, their irritating habits will con-
uhae and may produce a real estrange-
ment. There must always be some
friction even between the most affec-
tionate husbands and wives or broth
ers and sisters, and the way to make
II harmless is 10 acknowledge it.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-07-31
"MAINE'S BAN ON THE SALOON.
Has Made Nightly for temperance, Says
Former Congressman Burleigh---Prohi-
bition Never So Fmml y Entrenched

Ii is under the ban of popular con-
demnation. Those who engage in il
are criminals in the sight of the law.
The open dram shop. with its Haunting
signs and alluring windows, is no
longer feature in our State. The
rumseller is forced into dark corners
He has been obliged, like other Grim
inals, to resort to concealment and
stealth, where before the advent of
prohibition. he pursued his traffic with
openness and ostentation. The whole
traffic has been forever relegated to
the furtiye ways of crime. 1t is not
easy to estimate fully the great tenn
peranee work which this change has
wrought in Maine"
Is True Today.
That was 20 years ago. The state
ment was true then Ii is true today.
1t is useless for anyone to deny that
this condition of the liquor traffic has
made nightly for practical temper
ance in every part of the State.
| can remember when liquor was
freely sold all over Maine-when il
was part of the stock in trade of
hNp'iF sNNAS 6ipNtiN SttEt, anu KNEW
the conditions then existing in the
community. | say to you that prohibi-
ton has vastly changed them for the
better-in thrift. in sobriety, in indus
try, in everything that makes for
Christian civilization.
The plain fact is that prohibition
was never so firmly intrenched in
Maine as II is today In my Judgment
public sentiment is Overwhelmingly be-
hind il Our people as a whole have
no desire to return to the days of the
open saloon-and while we are not
foolish enough To think that louor
drinking or liquor selling can ever be
wholly stopped by the prohibitory law.
We are we'll satisfied with the large
and far-reaching good it has accom-
plished for the peace and welfare of
| our State.
With all best wishes. remain,
Faithfully your friend.
EDWIN c. BURLEIGH
Hon. Adam p. Leighton,
Chairman of State Committee of the
No-Lieense Movement, Portland. Me
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-07-31

introduced by our gentle and classical
contemporary.
| Undoubtedly we could review our
files with profit We calculate to so
construct each days issue that it will
be JOY forever. Sorry, dear Argus,
| that we cannot return the compl-
ment but we cannot. without fractur-
| ing that brand of veracity to which we
are sticking in this campaign.
II seems to us that the rum press
HAS been saying that Cardinal Glib
bons once said something about Laws
like prohibition that are certain to be
violated had best not be made. For
incessant violation draws down upon
them disrespect."
Fearing that in our previous criti-
cism we did not give expression to that
which occurs to us now, we would say
that the rum trusts constant mouth
ing, of such a sentiment is bound to
draw down upon Cardinal Gibbons
disrespect We fear he is not so very
proud of the associates who so boast
fully claim him.
The decalogue was certain to be
violated; does Cardinal Gibbons wish
to be understood that it should never
have been written? Perhaps the Argus
is able to answer for its friend.
Would the eminent churchman have
had the precepts. given by God TO
Moses on Mount Sinai, smashed while
vet in the tables of stone by Dem
orrm trust, for the sake of increasing
trade at the expense of souls?
Can Cardinal Gibbons, after such an
expression as his rum trust friends
,redit him, read the decalogue and feel
40 self-reproaeh?
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-07-31
Before the Prohibitorv Law

me the rum press is exploiting
Inc liberal" views of DR.. Abbott con-
corning the Maine prohjbitorv law :,
- wen 10 note that DR.. Abbott has
haroiy been in Maine for 40 years
0fief visits only. What does he know
OF conditions2 He has absorbed rim,
trust doctrine from a liquor-saturated
SOL ana atmosphere, Where has he
obtained his bosated information?
In sharp contrast, read what NO.
OF DIR. Abbott's age saws. This 49,
mas hSed IN Maine all his life; in
portland 80 years. He tells OF con
aitions before the prohibitory law
read 1t and put it in the balance win
what the rum press says DR. Abbot,
said
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-07-31
Why We Fear for the Law.

WIN not some other little boy OF girl
come forward to try for that beer trust
gold? 1t is a magnificent opportunity
TO become wealthy and famous all at
one Whaek. Just think what If would
De worth to the future of anv vonne
BOY or girl. to gain the notoriety of
having so far pleased the liquor inter-
ests as to win $40!
II 'he young men and young ladies
OIL Maine who have never seen an omen
saloon who have never had anv CON
eeption of the real evils of inteponar
ance. could only visit license terr,to.v
ana understand what Local. Statute
isf'1 oLATioN' means. we should
nave no fears for the fate Of the poo
hipitory law on Sept. IL. 1t ia he.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-07-31
Argus feebIer Every Gaso.

. llts hehebec journal appears IN he
= 81, em s1,t mustered by the castisation NC
i teh called upon TO administer 10 II foe
tls incorporate and coarse abnse ~ a91
IonefsI eminent and reputab Bile who or
pose me prohibition cult In rnpning
Nlaiy amuck among the oponents Of nra7
nlpiition' apparently il forgets from one
week 70 another, the objects of its wrs uite
II mas forgotten its reference 10 cardi
MAI Gibbons; II says so itself In its inana
reply 10 our criticism. The journal edt
tor might proftably spend some time in
refreshing his memory from the files al
his own paper. The Journal saws II MAJ
nave referred TO Bishop Potter. No Doubt.
though We fail 10 see that that fact i'm
proves its case. Neither does its coarse
abuse OF DR.. Lyman Abbott, nor its in
suiting remarks upon Rear Admiral
Evans. Apropos of Bishop Potter we in
fer from It's reference TO him that the
kennebec journal has not heard that
thai distinguished prelate is dead-Port-
land Argus.
Perhaps We had and perhaps we had
not. but one thing We had noticed
that most Of the authorities quoted by
the Argus are dead. We refersfo the
dead ones only because they have been
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-07-31
Points for Voters.
(Madison Bulletin.)

The State of Maine has no right to
license one citizen to sell for proht
that which will rob another man OF
his earnings and usefulness, and in
fiict poverty and suffering upon his
household.
The liquor interests complain OF
Outside interference" in the prohibi-
ton fight, but they do not tell you
that the forces against the law are
engineered, financed and driven on by
the beer barons and booze boomers OF
Chicago and Milwaukee.
If prohibition does not injure the
liquor trade, why do the distiilers and
brewers constantly wage war? That
they do we have ample evidence In
their own reports. The report of one
brewing company in New York last
year read in part as follows: "Our re-
port for the year shows much less
gain than formerly, not because pnsl-
ness has not been good. but because
we had to pay out so much to fight
prohibition.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-07-31
Moonlight in the Moods.

Now, through the woods, the moonlight
filters down.
And falls, as through some dim cathedral
pane,
To cast a misty, silver hight upon
A multitude of elfn worshipers
Where, as in nght-long meditation
bowed,
With down-curled fronds the tender fern
folk stand:
Or floods, as through some rich-stained
oriel.
To float in purple on THE forest floor.
Where, deep in reverie, wood hyacinths
bend,
And round them great, gray columns of
the beech
Rise nobly, from the whole leafy capitals
The silky amber and rose-hued sheath
ings fall, 100. /
woodland doors, ftB p 81 e~s1tFea !
AT first touch of the level sun, will lie
ALI iridescent down these shining aisles
.-London Evening Standard.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-07-31

The safe and sane Fourth apparent
ly has not yet arrived in Billings
Mont, but this year it seems to have
been the poor dumb animals instead of
the children that were the sufferers.
Six young women, who participated in
the Women's courier endurance race in
that city, July 4th. as a result of
winch four horses were ridden to
death in contest covering more than
oo miles. have been placed under ar
rest. charged with cruelty to animals
ihree men We're also arrested in con-
nection with the killing by Indians of
steers with bows and arrows. as part
VI the celebration Of the Fourth.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-07-31
Put His Foot in X.
(Rridgton NeWS.)

While our u. S. Senator Johnson essays
to solidify the Democratic party of Maine
for the cancellation of prohibition in the
constitution, Democratic State Senator
Leslie Boynton, Democratic leader in the
State Senate, is saying that Lincoln coun-
ty will vote two to one in favor of reten-
ton. That, we suspect, will be about
what will happen all through Maine out
side of the big cities. Anybody who mag
ines there are no Democrats on the pro-
hibitory side of the lineup simply don't
know much of Maine. Senator Johnson
has put his foot in it"
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-07-31
"Trua temperance"

Inc RESOLUTIONS duopteu ny INC va
tional Wholesale Liquor Dealers As
sociation of America, at their recent
convention, contained the following:
BE it resolved that we hereby reaf-
firm the platform adopted at the con-
vention held at Niagara Falls, and es-
pecially emphasize that parapragh
| which declares that those who honest
| ~ seek TO promote the cause of true
Temperance will find the surest and
safest method in the continuance of
| the licensed saloon, conducted under
proper laws and reasonable regula-
tions strictly enforced"
To begin with, who ever knew the
rum trusts reasonable regulations"
to be enforced2
The much ADVERTISED regulation" is
more easily and more often violated
than prohibitory law
No town or city that has ever had
local option, wet" or dry" has ever
seen the law enforced. If they vote
wet" they get the legal places in ad-
dition to the old Illegal dives. If they
vote dry every surrounding wet"
town helps to violate their laws.
The man or paper that tells you ii
cense regulation" laws are not vio-
lated speaks falsely. The rum trust
plan is to convince the voters that the
licensed sellers will drive the illegal
dealers out of business.
This is not only misleading but alb
solutely untrue in every particular
That is always the talk and it has
been tried in many license towns, but
the result turns almost invariably
against the licensed dealer. Why?
BECAUSE 1T TAKES LESS PROOF
OF VIOLATION OF THE LAW ON
HIS OWN PART TO COST HIM HIS
LICENSE. THAN 1T DOES TO CON-
Wet THE DIVE KEEPER OR
BOOTLEGGER OF ILLEGAL SELL
ING.
The divekeeper and pocket peddler
Al a punt ~ hNoW
SOMETHING against the holders of
licenses.
On the other hand the saloon keen
er VINO is paying well for a license
flnds he can increase sales by sending
out pocket-p eddtng buns ON a com
MISSION basis. or by stocking up
kitchen barrooms He has no love
for or interest in, his brother saloon
keeper and he proposes to get all the
business possible.
True temperance. according to the
rum trust advocates consists in what
ever form of regulation" viii in
crease sales and, therefore, profits.
According to this form of reason
ing, any sort of nuisance would be
best abated by licensing, so-that, in
case of a glue factory in a-city the
concern that paid the license could
drive out the other intolerable smells,
and enjoy the odoriferous monopoly of
the town.
In the case of white slave traffic, the
clique paying the license could put all
other dealers in the souls of women
and girls out of business, and would,
OF course. be entitled to claim a legal,
recognized and respectable" business,
because the city or county OF state
would be in business with him and
sharing the profit.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-07-31

The liquor interests, which complain
of the oppression of the law. should
Justice Whitehonse, away back IN
1870. AS county attorney, addressing
the jury in the notorious Hoswell-
Latin case, he said: Why, gentle
men, human laws are enacted and PEN
alties imposed for the special purpose
Of strengthening mems power of self
control in the community. and holding
them 10 a strict sense of duty and ac-
countability.s
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-07-31

The baseball teams of the Con-
nectieut League threaten TO take ac-
ton against some of the newspapers
in that state for failure to back up
their home teams. The Bridgeport
Telegram remarks that it i'll becomes
any baseball magnates to complain of
the treatment accorded them by the
newspapers, for the papers are wholly
responsible for the success and popu-
larity of the national game. That is
true. and it is also true that the news
papers of the country every year give
away thousands of dollars in free adj
vertising of the baseball teams of
their home cities.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-07-31
Editorial Comment
Privileged Under License.
(Piscataquis observer.)


The bitterest opponent to resubmis-
sion that We talked with last year was
Maine man who used To do business
in Canadian town and boarded at
hotel.
The landlord was licensed to sell liz
uor and in the evening the young men
came in to play cards and drink
Among them, however, was one who
did not drink hard liquor so the land
lord would provide something soft
for him.
But as time went on the young man
got to drinking hard liquor and one
rainy evening when our informant and
the landlord were alone in the harroom
the young mans mother came in and
begged the landlord not to sell her boy
any more liquor for it was running him
and had Spoiled her home. The land
lord replied that he should sell him all
he could pay for and then pushed her
out into the rain as it was his privilege
To do being licensed.
The man who told us this had seen
the working of license law in Canada
and of prohibition in Maine. and, al
though he had lived in some Maine
towns where the law had not been en-
forced as it should have been, he
preferred prohibition to license.
Another Maine man who has lived
in Massachusetts 30 years told us
few days ago that the Maine people
who were working against prohibition
were making great mistake. He men
toned one Massachusetts, city where
he lived four years, two OF when
We're wet and two dry" and said
conditions were vastly worse under
license than without ii.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-07-31
The Hot Weather Test

Makes people better acquainted with
their resources of strength and en-
durance
Many find that they are not so well
off as they thought and that they are
easily enervated and depressed by the
heat.
What they need is the tonic effect of
Hoods Sarsaparilla which strengthens
the blood. promotes refreshing sleep,
oyercomes that tired feeling, creates
appetite.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-07-31

Once the peerless leader and then
the cherries leader. now Nebraska
has turned down William ]. Bryan, en-
tirely. The name of the thrice de-
feated Democratic candidate for the
presidency was not mentioned, nor
was reference made TO the policies he
has heretofore advocated, at the state
convention, Tuesday. at Fremont.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-07-31

The army officer with a crouch Is
now ut OF il, according TO the new
regulations promulgated by the war
department. These regulations pro-
vide that any army officer who,
through i'll nature or other cause is
temporarily disqualified for duty, will
face retirement To make room for 9th
ers possessed with the attributes of
leadership Under the old rule. officers
Were hated before the retiring board
OILY for physical disa bility.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-07-31
Crumbiinu,
(London Times.)

An apology for the English habit of
grumbling about the weather and
about other things was recently adj
yanced in these columns. Grumbling.
it is said, is a safety valve which the
polite Frenchman denies to himself
with the result that If he is annoyed
beyond a certain point his temper ex-
plodes like an overstrained boiler inc
French Revolution itself was an ex-
plosion of that kind. The French peo-
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-07-31

cause so many thousands ot them have
never seen and cannot Know the differ
ence that we have misgivings.
The brazen, sacrilegious attempt of
the organ of high State official to de
bauch the dawning young manhood
and young womanhood of the State is
too contemplate for words.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-07-31

out in Oklahoma the state courts
are dissolving counties. That Is not
so bad as the creation of counties that
never we're and floating fraudulent
bond issues, as was done by some OF
the earlier Western Adventures.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-07-31

The prize winner-measuring trife
over two feet-was caught at Thomaston
the other day.-Lewiston Journal
This is tantalizing. What was it
eel, pickerel, trout, cod, lobster, fish,
flesh or fowl?-Portland Press.
Don't get excited; mebbe it was a
whale.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-07-31
VOICES OF THE PRESS.

Texas prohib!tionists should cheer up.
-Four or five thousand minority isn't so
bad. What If they had been defeated
by more than 200,000. as the Missouri
prohibitionists We're? Then they nligh.
have considered themselves licked
Kansas City Journal.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-07-31

Going back half century for argu-
ment is quite common and necessary
dead ones is propehtic of its cause
Old John Barleycorn is on his last legs
In Maine. After Sept. II he'll be u
dead one.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-07-31
Monday, July 81, 1911.

I'LL Reverence the highest. have
patience with the lowest Let
this days performance of the
meanest duty be thy religion.
Are the stars too distant
pick up the pebble that lies a
thy feet and from il learn all
Margaret Fuller Ossoli-
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-07-31

Swedish census returns reveal that
returning emigrants equalled last year
81 per cent. OF those leaving the codn-
try, How untrustworthy our statistics
We're until this factor came TO be taken
INTO acceunt.-Boston Herald.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-07-31
tFrom Portland Express and AZ
{artiSpr

CFrom Portland Express and Ad-
vertiser)
That a great work is being accom-
plished bv the No-Lieense Movement
in this state. is daily being made man
ifest by the great interest 'that Is De
ing taken in the meetings throughout
the State under the auspices OF TINS or
ganization, promoting interest faVorlhs
the retention of the prohibitory amend
ment, and the great proportion OF the
representative members of the clergy
professional and business men of the
State who are already enlisted behind
the movement. A striking example oil
the appreciation of the work was re-
ceiVed by Hon. Adam +. Leighton OF
this city, chairman of State committee
of the No-LiCense Movement in let
ter of recent date which is as follows;
Burleiah's Letter.
Dear Mr.. Leighton
Permit me to congratulate you very
heartily and sincerely upon the sue
cessful organization of the No-License
Movement.
There has been no phase of life in
Maine tnat mas Deen more pelSlStentlN
misrepresented than has its prohibit
tory law. The wholesale liquor dealers
have been united and persistent in en-
deayoring TO create the impression
abroad that more liquor Is consumed
in Maine than would be the case if the
State We're 10 adopt a high license sys-
tenn. OF course there is not the slight
est foundation for any such assertion.
The very fact that these big liquor in
terests are. and have been Tor years,
fighting the Maine prohibitory law
with the energy of despair, and from
every possible angle, is. of itself, about
as conclusive proof as any intelligent
man could desire, of the fact that this
law has vastly narrowed the market
for their goods in the Pine Tree State
In my inaugural address to the Legis-
lature of January 8. 1891. ! referred to
prohibition as follows:
THAT prohibition has accomplished
vast work for temperance in the
state no candid man will deny. The
liquor traffic is no longer respectable.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-07-31

Here. here! Look. Senator Johnson,
the Christian Science Monitor is but
ting in. Can't you shoe em out?
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-07-31

Boston reports the discovery of 55,-
100000 bacteria in a half spoonful of
Boston Ice cream, new record. An
other reason why it must be awful TO
live in Boston.-Pittsburg Dispatch.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-07-31

Senator Johnson. il would seem.
could find better employment Tor the
peoples time than shooting the elo-
quent Hobson away from the Maine
hustings. and maligning the people of
Maine who gave him his job The
Senator is not in Washington as a rep
resentative of a party, but of SOW
ereign State, and should conduct him.
self with becoming dignity.-Bath
Times
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-07-31

The Bangor Commercial is in receipt
of slip of paper date July 10, 1911,
and signed by Mrs. Colin Dorgald,
Chester BARN, Sinburg county, n. s.,
which was picked up by Charities F.
Allen of Jonesport, July IS. in a boStle
near Head Harbor Island.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-07-31

ing seven of these monsters in his
net. The nets of both these men were
badly torn by these sharks. and the
fishermen We're obliged to cut off the
tails of the big fish before they We're
able to get them out of their nets. The
sharks had teeth an inch long, and
could easily have bitten off mans leg
as if it We're cut by a broadaxe