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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-08-23
The Extraordinary Session.

The net results of the special session
of Congress which ended on Tuesday
seems to be a country at SKIES and
sevens. The session has been strenu-
Gus for those taking part and exas
perating to the country at large. What
ever may be the result, in the only real
accomplishment of the session-the
passing of the so-ealled reciprocity ar
rangement--President Taft has shown
the courage of his convictions and a
determination to carry through his
ideas, regardless of FREUD or foe. He
made use of his political enemies 10
obtain his desired end, and. con-
trary TO the expectations of some
Democratic leaders, he vetoed one and
all of the Democratic measures. The
schemes of Democracy and insurgent
Republicans have been rendered futile
by the stiff backbone of the chief exc
cutive. However much we may disa
gree with the President In his reel
proeity'' policy, we can but admire his
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-08-23

stiff upper lip in standing for what he
believes to be for the countrys inter-
ests.
The net results of four months and
a half session of the 62nd Congress
are, the bringing of Canadian reci-
proeity as near reality as this couu-
Try can do il without the ratification Of
the Canadian people: the practical
assurance of statehood for New Mex
leo and Arizona the enactment If
campaign publicity legislation, and
provision for an enlarged House of
Representatives. There We're few
other measures OF minor importance.
but compared with The ambitious cam
paign docket at the outset of the SEES
sion. and boasts of Democrats and in
surgen,s. jointly and severally, the
total looks small.
II is the intention of the President
and Republican leaders eventually to
revise the tariff downward, hut the%
wish the schedules to be considered by
the board of tariff experts who have
been gathering indisputable facts that
belle the hastily made up claptrap Of
fered by the Democracy at the present
session. Schedule after schedule of
the tariff will be revised scientifically.
rather than in accordance with log
rolling methods
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-08-23
A Few Short Arguments for constitu
tionaI Prohibition.

DIR. Wilbur F. Crafts of Washington.
king from the steps of the Y. NJ.
C. A. in Congress Square, Portland,
sunday night, gave five short argu-
ments for Constitutional prohibition.
First an argument from the natiohal
constitution. He recalled that three
great political questions had been be-
fore the country during the period OF
prohibition: first slavery; second, free
silver; third, the tariff. The second
and third of these, being complicated
matters of detail, are not put into the
national constitution, but the question
whether a man shall hold his Fellow
man as slave, being a simple ques-
ton of right and wrong, has been
placed in the national constitution.
And the question whether another sys-
tenn of slavery should be sanctioned by
legalzing the saloons is an equally
suitable question for state constitutions
now. and later for the national consul
tuition.
The second argument was That the
liquor advertisements in the Incense
organs of the State. filling sometimes
three columns in large type with IRAN
tic appeals 10 vote Yes" on the ques-
ton of the repeal Of prohibition. Is the
only argument which man. oesiriIis
sincerity to restrict the liquor trai'i'
would require to vote NO, since IL -
self evident that If the liquor dealers
could sell more liquor under prohinl-
ton" as they have persuaded some
good but weak people TO believe, they
L n COSTLY al .
vertising bills in addition 10 hee''Ss9
and increased rents, in oruei u ue
crease their sales.
The third argument was lile al :
ment of more than half century VI
maintained prohibition in Name Wii'eii
tho voune voters should CONSIDER as
meaning something in State mace up
of a thoughtful population
The fourth argument was from .he
nearest state, New Hampshire "iiei.
increased it's criminal DRINKS TOUR anu
one-balf fold in four years by ehahe
ing from prohibitory Ia" hiucii
weaker than that of Name ana less
onforcad 70 high license and local OPP
|tion. 49,,
rot;h;tion man of the United States
,,.h;oh he held M. half white, with A.
600 600 of people under various iorn's
Of prohibition, after 90 years Oh ekper-
imenting with all kinds OF liquor laws
low license. high license. government
ownership lin SO. Carolinao doxology
saloons lin New York; have all been
tried and although the people know
very we'll that prohibition is impe:-
feet under the political enforcement
thar has so far been given to it, yet
half of the American people have set
fled down manifestly to the conviction
that ii gives the largest restriction 10
the liquor traffic of any method that
has been devised.
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Women Oppose License.

Editor kennebec Journal:
| have been informed upon good an
thority that two of Belfast's w. c. r.
U. women braVed the Belfast License
Lion in his den, recently, and drove
him white and trembling with rage
into his corner Good for the women.
No man would dare do such thing.
But what is there that the women will
not do when they once become
aroused? In this case they knew the
children of our community will be in
uahser If the saloon is allowed to come
INTO Maine, and what will arouse q
ihother-or any woman who has a true
Wotnah's heart-mere than to have her
chiiuren, or those of her neighhors and
irlends, in danger from such an ac-
cursed evil as the liquor traffic? Rest
assured. ladies, that God in whose
name you are working, will protect
YOU and your children, and will also
zeal with those who are working for
me rum OF the home, and all that Is
connected herewith, as thew deserve.
ana as re alone can deal with the en-
emles OF truth and right. His curse is
already upon them. He has turned
Them over To the devil-and If they do
not refrain from their damnabtn work
ere long. His hand will come down
upon them more heavily stlll What
can be more terrible than the wrath of
God when once it is kindled? Rut let
| them repent and turn from their evil
ways and teachings and He will pardon
| them and bless them. Beware. Won IL
cense workers Of uniquity! Take cour-
| age. mothers and friends.
You who are doing all in Your power
to put the intoxicating cup 10 your
neighbours lips, for that is what YOU
win do if we get ANY KIND OF a Ii
| cense law. borrow a Bible-the Word
| Of Cod for | hardly believe you can
| have one, or if you do. never read it,
and see what God says through his
prophet in regard to such an act Read
carefully from the prophet Habakkak
S:f5-17, and beware what you say anil
do. and what you write for your pa
pers. k@
ID II
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Based on Temperance Neglect.

The rum press of Maine. and some
OF their allies in other states, are pre-
dieting repeal of the prohibitory Law
of Maine by from 10000 to 25,090
Founded On their EXPECTANCY the
prediction may be true.
The Rum Trust and its paid work
ers are leaving no device untried &c
get out THEIR voters. Every rum
my. whether drinker or seller. will be
al the polls, il the inducement OF
free liquors and money can get them
there.
The Maine papers which are fighting
for the Rum Trust cause EXPECT a
large part of the temperance vote 10
stay at home. None knows better the
usual apathy of those who take it for
granted that right will win. than
these followers of Rum Trust liter
AZURE They know that hundreds OF
mo" voters. on one excuse or an
Other, viii stay away from the polls
on Sept. II. They hope and expect
tina, thousands win NEGLECT to vote
NO.
on their expectancy of carelessness
and lack of enthusiasm among rural
voters, the rum press is predicting
10000 for repeal.
Are you one TO help the Rum Trust
into power by neglecting TO vote no
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-08-23
waterville, Me. Aug. 81. 1911.
Rum Trusts Cunning Appeals.

Editor Kennebec Journal:
AS we read the pages of the Vote Yes
literature we are reminded again and
again of the story OF THE Bundle of
Sticks"; and Uncle Remus' Story ef tho
Pigs as told by joel Chandler Harris
This paragraph is typical OF a hnees pro-
portion of the literature: sS
"Mr. Voter, if you remove prohibition
from the constitution you do not repeal
the prohibitory law. but you take into
your own hands the power TO bring about
changes in it, You can. III you choose,
substitute the local prohibition for State
wide prohibition. You can thus restore
10 yourself the right of local self-govern-
ment. prohibiIioniStS want
you to keep prohibition in the constitu-
zion so you shall not have this power TO
regulate your own.affairs. What say You
to that Mr. Noter?''
AS we read this We are reminded of the
story of the man who was about to die
and leave his children, and ne directed
bundle of sticks TO be brought. and he
asked the children. in turn, from the
youngest to the Oldest, to try ana break
them. But no one could do il. Then he
ordered the sticks to be tied In smaller
bundles; the younger children could not
break them, but the larger ones could.
When the sticks were not tied into
bundles, even the smallest child could
take them, one by one, and break them
into pieces. This lesson said the
father, lis TO teach you that In union
there is strength AS long as you keep
together there is no power that will harm
you, but if you disagree and become sep
arated, the enemy will find each of you
an easy prey
Here is the other side of the question
that the local option league sets forth so
eloquently
Liquor is sold in Maine, but without
legal restraint and regulation, and the
liquor dealer conducts business which,
save for an occasional fine. contributes
nothing to the public treasury. After so
years of prohibition the liquor dealer Is
still doing business in Maine. Why not,
then, make him submit TO legal regulation
and pay his fair share of the expenses
of government? You pay your taxes Mr..
Voter and they are sometimes pretty
heavy Why shouldn't the man who sells
liquor pay taxes also? Why should We
continue to allow him to make prohibition
a means of increasing his profits? We
are notare not asking the liquor dealer to
come into Maine in order that we may
tax him. He is here today and he is es-
Gaping taxation
Does not this set us to thinking OF the
story of "Brer WOLF and his offer Of the
bag err roas'n'--years?"l But Maine. by
placing her prohibitory law in the Consti-
Continued on Page Seven)
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Let the Rum Trust Name the People

Can the people. of Maine be trusted
10 govern themselves. or must they be
kept under the guardianship of ram
rodders ?-Biddeford Record.
oh, no; of course not! Turn it over
10 the Rum Trust, and the Maine rum
press. When our fathers put the law
in the constitution Holman Day had
not invented "Ramrodders" for the
use Of the rum papers, and those in
nocent men who believed in better
things did not understand the neces-
stiles of the Liquor interests in 1911.
OF course the people" can be trusted
If the Portland Argus, Bddeford
Record and Secretary of State Davis
little yellow dog of Journalism can
choose the people; the rum people, >
the buns and thugs people; the
newly made foreign voters people"
the liauor sellers and drinkers "peo-
ple;;" the white slave traffic people ,
and the promoters of prostitution
people"
Yes, indeed, trust the people" L
reconstruct the. law TO suit them
selves, Never mind what our father
thought, before the days OF ram
rodders," and "hypocrites." and per
surers, and fanatics" Certainly
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-08-23

Why should Maine longer retain
prohibition in her constitution. or in
her statutes. for that matter?-Ban
ger Commercial.
The chief reason is that a majority
of the people of Maine look at moral
questions from different angle than
the Commercial And, up to this
time. in spite of the Rum Trust.
majority has made the laws.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-08-23
A BELFAST VOTE
Read the Constitution.
Kennebec Journal:

Editor Kennehee Journal:
1 have often heard 1t said by those
who favor the repeal of the 'Prohibi-
tory amendment that the prohibition
of the liquor traffic does not properly
belong in the State constitution. VIII
they, and others who may be in doubt
on this subject please read with me
from the preamble of the constitution
as follows:
We, the people OF Maine. in or
der TO establish justice. ensure
tranquility. provide for our mutual
defence. promote our common well
fare, and secure 10 ourselves and
our prosperity the blessings of ID
erty do agree To form our
selves into a free and independent
state, by the style and title of the
State of Maine, and do ordain and
establish the following constitution
for the government of the same"
1t seems clear 10 me that the sale
of intoxicating liquor does interfere
with the establishment of justice, that
it interrupts and disturbs our tran
guilty. that il DOES INCREASE the
evils against which we are TO defend
ourselves that it DOES very serious
iy prevent the promotion OF our COM
mon welfare and often depriyes us OF
the blessings OF liberty.
If that is the case it is emincntly
fitting that the principal OF prohibit
ton should be Incorporated in the
State constitution. and the legislature
be thereby forbidden TO enact any law
under which such an enemy TO our
peace and prosperity can be lawfully
admitted TO our State.
Il. w. DUNN.
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pure and Innocent Chicago!


The Maine rum press with charae-
teristic impudenee and disregard Of
truth attempts To prove false the
statement by John r, Lennon. the M
tional treasurer ef the American Fed
Grafton OF Labor. who spoke in Au-
! gusta the other night. and in which
he asserted that while Chicago has
| 1000 licensed saloons, there are 10000
blind pigs" and "bootlegs" where Ii
uuor is sold without license. These
papers publish an alleged dispatch
to E. G. Fassett, Portland. secretary
and treasurer of Names license
league, and we'll understood TO be the
representative of the liquor interests
in Maine. This alleged dispatch reads
as follows:
I'VE understand it is being charged
that twenty thousand blind pigs CT
unlicensed places are operating IN
Chicago. The charge is absolutely
false. There is no unlicensed liquor
selling in Chicago. All liquors are sold
by licensed wholesalers. licensed sa-
loon keepers and by druggists Who
hold permits.
rs it likely that the 100 who each
pay a $1,000 license Zee annually WOULD
stand for the persons doing the same
business who pay no license?
Mayor Harrison is absent hence
we reply 70 this astounding end ri
ficulous charge.
John MeWeeney, General Saperin-
tendent of Police; Edward Cohen, city
Collector; Henry Stuckart, City Treas
urer.
Any man who has had the privilege
of seeing conditions in Chicago and Of
knowing that government and police
are VIGOROUSLY controlled by the IL
ouor interests, will well understand
how such a false statement may be 50
brazenly published over the signature
of Chieago's Rum Trust owned Off
cials To say that there is no boot
Logging" that there are no blind
pigs; that there are no Illegal bar
rooms; that there is no illicit distribu-
ton of liquors in Chicago, is so OBJ
viously false that the feeble efforts
at argument by the Biddeford Record
overshoots the mark. Probably no
city in this country is so notorious
for it's open violation of the law. for
a violation in which the saloon men
who pay the licenses are stocking
and recruiting illicit dealers and nell
holes. as Chicago. The disreputable
workings Of the Chicago city govern
ment and the entire Cook county ad-
ministra ton has been a scandal in the
eyes of the world in recent years.
And yet representatives OF Maine
newsnaperdom publish this false or.
mayhap, fake dispatch in a cowardly
attempt to deceive the people of Maine
into voting what the Rum Trust de-
mands in the way of legislation.
The champion of Fair Play" a
Chicago liquor journal. makes the
following statement:
I'm the state of Illinois the L. s.
government collects a tax of -, l49
persons selling by retail-while the
several municipalities throughout the
state license hob retail liquor deal
ers. showing that more than onehalf
III 1850 are illegally selling liquor by
wilfuny violating the law regulating
the same"
When rogues disagree it is time for
honest men TO have a care. The Ii
quor interests, in their zeal, slop over
and let the people see the truth. now
and then
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-08-23
7. An economic asset is a
righteous, industrious and eff.
Gent citizenship.

Do saloons purify ideals, promote in
dustry. sharpen the wits and increase
the earning capacity? Do saloon
keepers or their devotees furnish exam
pies for public pride and emulation"
Can they by word and life say Il live,
yer not I, purity. integrity, industry
and efficiency live in me-? Are most
trustworthy, responsible or best paid
positions open To patrons of the sa-
loon?
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-08-23
THE RUM TRUSTS MIR. HYDE
Is Prohibition DR.. JekylI in His Blunders and
Attempted Corrections
of Blunders.

said my the New York that believed
convinced that
wrong chance of being defeated at
sincerely hope Will
also the Sun that believed the shn
population would
did population
intended
police the
would perhap sprefert conditions.
- 'r' JOHN S. HYDE.
Maine 49, 1911
First Mr. HYDE inadvertently expressed his contempt for
the intelligence rural because they oppose the Rum
Trust
Second at the instance OF Rum Trust representative he
attempted to smooth ii
The he makes plain the necessity OF strong police
service where the Rum Trust rules.
Mr. HYDE committed another objectionable bunder from
Rum Trust standpoint by admitting (n his Rum Trust
revision OF his aemen) that is question OF high
license and local option" against prohibition.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-08-23
a. An economic asset is
substantial trade brought to
town and held there.

Do saloons make the town. attract
trade" Of the best kind and best pay
ing sort, hold it in town? Who gets
cash over the counter, the saloon or
reputable business places? Which
carries bad accounts because of the
other Will those who spend time
and money (most always firsD at the
saloon buy so many groceries or dry
goods, so much clothing, furniture or
food stuffs? Are bank deposits OF the
few saloon keepers equal TO the many
deposits lost 10 the banks because OF
the saloon? Is trade permanent or
ultimately profitable that seeks patron
age by pandering to the beast in
stincts Of mem
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Wednesday, August %, 1911.

In world in which so many
people wear the same clothes. live
in the same house, eat the same
dinner and say the same things,
blessed are the individuals who
have their own thoughts and live
their own lives.-H. w. Mabie.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-08-23

A straw vote recently taken in a.
farming community not far removed
from Biddeford showed IS per cent
in favor OF repeaL-Biddeford Record
a jug in the straw" no doubt?
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-08-23
structive institutions objects of
civic pride, and absence of
those parasitic institutions ad
vertisinq the shame of enoietu

CIVIC pride, and absence of
those parasitic institutions ad-
vertisine the shame of society.
Do saloons have largely to do with
building and maintaining churches
X. NJ. IL y. w. c. A., social settlements
motel lodging houses. hospitals n,
braries. colleges and universities N,
they not out Of all proportion nacee-
state Jails, prisons, reformatories
houses of correction and aims houses
imhecile and insane asylums? Does
any revenue derived from the saloon
begin to pay its share in the burden
of support?
II. An economic asset is
consistent and strong system
of education.
Is any system of education CON
sistelt that supports itself very large
" the case in saloon toWns) largely,
out of the Golfers of an institution II
teaches to be a physical, moral and
economic menace? is the education
acquired by daily sight of the legalized
saloon-with its faring signs, seduc-
tive music, harmless games of
chance" treating" appeal to youth
III ''lIo amman oPiAitSt 49, StSsI-OIl
set by instruction that declares them
10 be wrong? Do good schools in one
part of the town neutrali2e the dan
ger of the slums in another part, or
saloons monopolizing most conspicu-
Gus positions on main business streets,
does education prevent temptation and
fall?
IL. An economic asset is
city beautiful, not so much in
buildings, parks and streets as
in character of officials, gov
eminent, citizens and life.
Merely in economic way do not
genuine assets of state, city and viii
lage, consist in peerless reputation and
unimpeachable name; Hottest civic
ideals and persistent striving toward
their attainment; unperjured officials
and honest government; upright citi.
gems and pure life, social. political
moral: worthy institutions and bust.
ness clean in character and conduct
AMONG THESE CAN THE SALOON
BE COUNTED AN ASSET? Is II
NOT AT ALL TIMES AND Al
EVERY POINT AN ECONOMIC
Liability
MALCOLM DANA
Hallowell, Me, August %
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SALOONS ECONOMIC PHASES.
Rev. Malcolm Dana Makes a Strong Areu.
ment for Prohibition That Has
Not Been Touched.

Prohibition is not 4 receding but an
advancing wave. The advance is
along several lines among them the
moral. protective and economic. Nor
ally considered. any other method of
dealing with the liquor question than
prohibition must be To an extent i'm
moral. for il is bargain and compro-
mise with wrong. The South need not
fear that its protective argument war
rants the assertion that prohibition
gains do not represent moral convic-
tons Were il true the protective
argument is valid And if liquor is
dangerous for the vicious black man
who constitutes d small fraction of the
dangerous classes in the land, il is
equally unsafe TO give it 10 the white.
and major portion Of these classes.
Along economic lines prohibition is
making greatest gains. II is to our
shame that the almighty dollars and
business policy are more deciding fac
tors than the Almighty Himself and
the statutes Of the Lord which only
ARE completely right. We may re-
joice, however. that straight dollars
and cents are sounding the doom of
the saloon and its business.
/ wish To lay down certain economic
propositions. and at the same time by
query and inference show the negative
and distinctive part the saloon plays
in the economic realm.
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No notice whatever will be taken Of
unsigned communications.
The Journal cannot be held RESPONSE
BILE for the preservation or return of
rejected communications.
Address all communications relating
to subscriptions and advertisements
TO BURLEIGH & FTYNT, Publish
ers, Augusta, Maine.
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Make a cross in the upper right hand
square Of the ballot.
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Editor S Letter Box

The publication of Va letter In
this department is not to be taken
as an endorsement of its Views nv
the Kennebec journal. This col
umn is maintained for the discus
sion of matters of general public
interest when kept within bounds
of reason ana not of Il libelous or
abusive nature.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-08-23

If you vote yes" you vote with the
Rum Trusts helpers
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Study the specimen ballots before
election day.