Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-09-28

| graphing his CONGRATULATIONS say y
4 "The greatest moral victory IN the
worlds history. The New YORK
IChristian Herald "Greets the temper
anee mothers, wives and daughters OF
Maine and congratulates them ON the
triumph of prohibition. We are proud
Of Maine and pray that she may never
repeal the Amendment which has been
her pride and her distinction Tor
twenty years" Someone has
well said the majority OF the mothers,
| manufacturers. ministers, and all those
interested in morals. ethics and econ
Icrny are on the side of prohibition in
| Maine. This enumeration includes the
/ sunday school, the church. the Grang-
ers, the educators and the business
/ men to marked degree. Such as
| these cooperating with the temperance
| organizations We're leaders on the pro-
hibition side of the great conflict,
| The liquor associations of the United
States furnished the money and the
methods used in the campaign by the
anti prohibitionists. This is in ae-
cord with what they do in every COM
munity or state where the question of
the enactment of repeal of prohibitory
L Id VS. is lIt ISSUE 1ziCtttSt dNtN NNttNte
| on voting day, elated with the way the
votes were cast in some of the city
wards, boldly boosted of the methods
Iby which their majority would be
brought about. We have the editorial
statements from the papers published
| In the interest OF the liquor business.
| eLiberty." liquor journal. SAYS on
July IL, our brewers are leading in
he fight against prohibition" Their
olan was TO repeal the Maine law
hen mass their forces on Kansas The
American Brewer, New York, says
.ditorially, June, 1911.
In Kansas. the friends of personal
liberty, taking time by the foreloek,
have already started a statewide
campaign, the object of which is TO
make Kansas. bleeding Kansas, once
again wet territory. Ii is intended
resubmit to the people of the state,
he prohibitory law, since many indi-
,ations of late so to show that the
people are ripe for a sweeping change.
It is stated that within short time
over 1000 local organizations working
% the end mentioned will be i'm ex-
istence."
Bonforts Wine and Spirit Circular,
New York, stated edtorially, Re ii
remembered that the Protective Blu
eau of the National Wholesale Liquor
Dealers Association had much. very
much, to do with the work which did
away with prohibition in Vermont and
New Hampshire.
This association had very much to
10 with the anti prohibition work in
he Maine campaign but they did not
succeed in their purpose. 1t is absurd
md dishonest for anyone to claim that
he LIQUOR makers, and the liquor SELL
.rs ever favor prohibition. The story
hat bootleggers and blind tiger
seepers were against the repeal of the
orohibitory amendment is unfounded
md untrue. There is much along this
inc that | might say but l forbear.
During these last weeks all such
slaiIns have been discussed and dis
PROVEN, and the majority of the Maine
feters have voted to retain the pro-
libitory amendment. All things con-
idered it is wonderful victory. The
,ducatiye effects of the campaign will
De of great value. The power OF the
iouor trade has been demonstrated as
never before. Experience has proved
hat the prohibitory law reduces the
mount of liquor sold and consumed.
No more striking proof of this can
,e presented than that offered by the
widespread report that during the last
ear twenty million gallons of liquor
rad been shipped into prohibition ter
itory. Forty million people are now
living in territory which has outlawed
he sale of liquor This would give
he average consumption per capita for
hose living in such territory to be
half gallon.
The whole amount of liquor last
ear withdrawn for consumption" was
.,094,322,884 gallons, deducting from
his the forty million gallons reported
o be consumed in prohibition territory
would leave forty-one gallons per
apita used by the fifty million people
living in license communities and
states.
Even if we had majority of sixty
thousand for prohibition the law
would not annihilate the traffic or all
ogether eliminate liquor selling in
Maine.
The same sanity of reasoning APP
olied to other laws, should also be APP
,lied To the laws against liquor SELL
ng. Statewide prohibition cannot be
is effective as temperance people de-
sire so long as liquor is manufactured
md legally sold in adjacent states or
n any state. ! reiterate the pro-
louncement made at the last public
meeting of the campaign the substance
IF which is:
Science has established that alcohol
| Is a poison, degenerating and destruc-
i've in it's effect upon character and
life. Wine is a mocker" and the use
| IF alcoholic beverages entails meal
culable, economic loss in productive
ness and heavy burden of taxation
lowers the standard of citizenship and
| causes more deaths than war, pesti-
lenee and famine combined. Inasmuch
as this terrible disease has been run
ming for many centuries and is now
Ilnterwoveu into the political, CONNER
cial and social life of the peoples, con-
lstituting the deepest seated. organic