Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-08-20

droscoggin. Cumberland and Knox had
said they coutd enforce. the law and
that they wonld enforce the law, as
did John Mooers in Som erset, do you
believe that We would be overrun in
our cities and villages, as We are to-
day in those counties, with booze
joints, and a growing disposition to vi
olcte all laws?
The Democratic Support, s
If the United States Brewers Assoei-
alton was not backing the Democratic
party in Maine, do You believe there
would have been an extra session of
the Legislature cailed last wiMter? DO
You believe the Democrats would have
cried baby after all the boasts they
made o. how they were going to carry
the state yes" last September by
s2een. majority, Just because they got
heked by the people who wanted a
sober State, and without any political
ORGANIZATION whatever. against, the
most terrific influence of all the rum
and money the Democrats wanted to
fieht that yes" and mo" battle?
TIE Democrats are asking me some
questions, and as | Was born in New
England | have right to answer by
asking these of them. The people OF
Maine are honest, and the great ma
iofity of them are sober, industrious,
Woodworking people, and Oey do not
want the state turned over to, the out
he-state-inauenee of the rum
power.
License Administration.
THE Democratic machine in this
Slate declares for the New England
system of slceI1sr. which I think is the
worst system in praetice In the ciyi
lized world Those who know anything
aboiH Massachusetts and New Hamp-
Shire Know that their license laws
do not prevent nearly as ma.ly rum :
shops within their borders not iieens-
ed as licensed. The license laws in all
the New England states are violated as
hiucfY Is thesMaine prohi bitory law ever
was in Maine; priepto the present DEM
oeratic. administration And under the
license system as administered ny
Tanmany Hall with Democratic offic-
ers, New York city Is now Calling for
a vigilance committee.
Sunday observances are disregarded
Prohibitions against the sale to minors
England system calls for wet and dry
vote annually. Practically our town and
city elections are each year turned over
to a fight with the rum sellers. The
schools highways and economic ques-
ticns pass into insisnificance in com
parison with whether some cheap cuss
is to sell rum or not. This is what To-
cal option means for Maine, and as
one born and bred in Maine, and we'll
wisher for her future, can never give
it my consent.
An Economic Question.
This question should not be politi-
cal question, and I do rot like to dis
cuss it as party issue. It is an eco
nomic question, 1t is a question Of
prosperity or poverty. 1t is also n
moral question and Il question of life
and death. Atsf ~
During the Boer War the English
found their army weak and inefficient.
The scientists OF Great Britsin inves.
tigated the cause and found it the
cause of alcoholic poisoning Tic
French government declares its appall-
ing decline in birth rate due to the
wide spread use Of alcoholic beverages.
i lie tftitlffl t.iilptIOI il1El iattiy bO-
clarcd that tho Nation that leads in
the future in war and peace will he
the Nation that makes the least use OF
alcohol
Physicians and scientists have final
ly agreed-that alcohol is protoplasmic
poison, destructive of the cell tissues
of the human body. Extensive expert
ments in laboratories show that it is
not only poisonous to man, but to all
forms OF animal life and plant life.
Experiments have been made which
show that liza man takes one glass of
beer day his average efficiency for
both mental-and physical work are re-
duced per cent; three glasses a day,
at the end Of twelve days from % per
cent tie 40 per cent.
1t seems that the effect of alcohol
on the huulan system is to attack the
white corpuscles Of our blood. The
white corpuscles are the destroyers of
disease germs jim Us, and when they
are injured or Hnabie TO do their work.
as the scientists say they are by the
use of alcohol, disease germs get in
their Work more eifectually.
Alcohol paralizes or makes drunk
these white corpuscles so that they
can't work against the diseases which
infect our blood. Long continued
drinking, even though tempefately,
shows a drying-up of these white cor
puscles and new tissue in the body is
not formed, and disease and death is