Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-08-23
IF NOT PROHIBITION, wHAT2
A Correspondent az the Lewiston Sun
Asks Pertinent Questions


Why did not the Lewiston sun answer
the following letter which II publishes?
1t Is a splendid opportunity to uphold tho
doctrine It has previously voiced Here
is the letter:
To the Editor.
In your August 4th issue you speak of
the foreign element with their drink
habit coming mere. Well, can The Sun
d ny the statement III Grange made?
Are there not hundreds OF foreigners in
this country that have been made legal
citizen with all the rights due citizen,
and they only have to stay we're a ( w
months. learn to say yes and no, and
write their own name. then they are
maze legal vot rs and will vote Just the
way they are told 10 by the one that
paws them the most for it. AnG a young
man that Is born here to be legal voter,
has to be q years Of age, and great
many of the boys Of II know more than
the voter that has been manufactured
from foreign importations.
And that is where the prohibition party
will be defeated df they are defeated1 Is
by the paid voters that do not know or
understand what they are voting for.
Talk about personal libertyi Has man
right to go and take the money from
rich man because he Is poor and needs II?
No Well the rumseller has no right to
take the money poor man gives him
when his family needs 1t Just because he
wants TO dress a little better and have
good time, die and leave some Of mis- ILL
gotten gains to some charitable cause or
other. InaI VIII not save HIS SDul tEOli
the DOOR that has been pronounc' ID on
all that 'putteth the bottle to his neigh
Dor's lips.
seller practice self denial? think he Is
an exampls OF the Liberty you are pratt
Ing about. You people that want local
option are like contrary eaid fo maj AN mas Is
have-He wants 1t sure, If IT is something
As to the local option, how is that bet
4lYaY4
- against, license, it Is Just as easy TO go
across the bridge and get what yeu want
as it is now, II you don't come BACK 10
A. and kick up the dust.
I think the thing that is needed In the
State of Maina { as eIsewherel Is men IN
government OF State, county and town
men supplied to enforce them. that can
not be bought II we want prohlpltIon:
is have ii and see that = IS Kept. JUST
as long as rum IS made IL VIII De soiu:
ae ut that is no reason why We want
il peddled out In every street as temp
atlon and pitfall to our BOYS ana sifis,
for you all know as well as II WIN De
Changing the liquor law subject to the
approval of the people, that IS What
rho sun prints We all know, (Who thlnR
al ali on this subjecb that It VIII pc
ither license or prohibition Mhat
mean bv that is that YOU can hnd noth-
ing else to take the place OF prohibition
u II Looks to me great deal like man ian
or woman brought up a Cafhoile, a ms
faith in the Pope is destroyed and we
cannot teach them of Christ and ms say
ing power they have nothing 10 rest on'
and sink into infidels. -. -,
If the people that have been brought up
in a prohibition state have that taken
away what have you to o q lo,, ta don,f
1gant saloon I'm your city you need not
have have It. No. but it is but a little way
to the next town or city, and ad they fr go;
o,.aaf many evils that have befallen some
Of her Sister states. what have YOU to
offer her in its place? Why local option
or in other words, an open saloon; anu
Now. you voters of Maine, just stop
and think for a few minutes ana see II
prohibition even at its worst is not pet
Ter than license and like man vote
NO" on September llth. - :.