Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-05-01

N'AarFN
from the trance in which they
have been for the past year
Portland Press.
You're just little off. neighbor.
Present conditions in Lewiston are
1nsi what she Democratic Doctor or
dered.
II is the beginning of a little dem
onstration Of the ability OF a govern
ment under the tutelage and orders
Of the bnoze trust to make things
lively. Things ARE lively" in Lew
iston now. according 10 the doctrine
of the saloonsts. @Sump'n doin'
every day now. in a city where the
liquor interests and the evils that so
hand in hand with them. are running
things just to their liking.
OF course it required great moral
courage son the part of Attorneys
General Pattangall. Governor Plaisted.
Mayor Mercy and a few other Dem
oeratic leaders, 10 come out openly
ana declare far these thfngs-for the
sake Of having "Iivelier times" and
granting personal liherty'-but see
what they are accomplishing in Lew
istan as a result of their disinterestsd
braveryl
Lewiston Is now enjoying 60 a
personal liberty regime If an Of
nelany encouraged thug wishes TO ex-
ereise his personal liberty TO the ex-
tent NJ going ont and killing prom
ineut business man and looting The
: body. he does SO.
And the police set up howl about
nafia--not robbery. perish the
ihonght-hut vengeance" Then they
elhe poliee) begin the running down
of boys from other towns and peace
ful farmers who happen Ia have been
50 tired as 10 walk with a slonching
gait"
or course it isn't possible that the
personal liberty demonstrators is
resting from his lahors in one OF the
officially protected dives of the city.
Next a residence is looted OF its
easily transferable and convertible
valuables, and the mistress knocked
on the head, by disciple of per
sonal liberty" Again it MUST be
case OF "re-ve-n-g-e-uhn, Possibly
the matron might have uttered some
thing. at some time. against the beer
trust And, of course by the time
the police had been called to the home
by phone, the guilty wretehes were
skullSing along the border line of
Fort Kent.
hospital nurse is held up and
struggles with one of the personal
liberty" thugs; and an eight-year- old
girl was rescued from the hands of
spersonal liberty" youth. who. was
affsnlpfing criminal assault.
The natural saloon promoters con-
clasion in 1.-The first case should be,
without police question) one of ven
geance but the latter was ONLY" a
POOR. drunk
Verify 4hese are lively times in
LewistonE Never mind the fact that
bills for home supplies are more diff
fieult of collection than year agol
We must consider the booze trusts
showing of lively times A poor
foolish city that has not the adVan-
tage 90 of officially protected saloons
1,a,,.re. an fa,,ao oannot ly,nvc
the value % OF these .'lively times"
A city without this sort of personal
liberty is called cold booded' and
"lifelessr by the booze trust litera-
ture.
For months the present conditions
in Lewiston have been developing, in
spite of the protest by the church, the
grange and all the better representa-
ton of citizenship.
For months the present conditions
in Lewiston have heen encouraged
and bnilt up by the public utterances
of Attorney General Pattangan. Coy
ernor Plaistea, Mayor Morey and 9TH
er leading Democratic officials.
Far months these officials have not
onis openly aud dinantly encouraged
the ranks Of crime, hut have positive
~ refused TO lift finger to stay the
perfection Of o criminal system under
saloon domination, that is disgrace
10 any civilized community.
For months, the churches have APP.
pealed from. and the press has de
Bouneed, the course Of the admins
uafive machine and it's henchmen
Every fair minded and decent citi
zen Of Maine must have realized tina
the result of criminal encouragement
and official protection of crime mus
result IN revolving conditions,
Are not such conditions preyalen
81, Lewiston nj this time.