Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-03-05

| of formation and reformation; he will
| not forget to teach truth; he will not
| neglect TO enact and enforce just and
| wise laws for the protection of life
| property and the state.
| To disregard these laws is for the
| citizen or official to become a common
| enemy, TO nullify the law is surely
serious offence. Yet it has become an
every day experience in this city.
Notification can be charged TO sew
eral sources:
% To criminals.
CD TO those who wish to hold the
| scales even en- moral issues.
go To those who for political rea-
| sons compromise with law breakers.
t4) TO the voter who doesn't see
the use"
t5) To the business man who says
business is business" and has no time
for politics.
CO. To the citizen who waits to see
how the cat jumps, because he wishes
| to be on the winning side.
% To the cowardly office seeker
| who does not want to antagonize any
| one.
hands of politics
| 4
longer tolerate this attitude toward
the management of our city. We are
all charged with high duty and
should discharge it,
1t is reported that 40 or more places
sell Intoxicating liquors. When YOU
think of the civic, economic and moral
less of such a traffic in manhood and
womanhood it is enough to fill us with
Gl4. ink nf fl1a hot
ought to so for rent, food clothing
and fuel, going for that which de-
stroys the user and kills the people he
| loves.
What can we do about it, Vote out
the official who won't enforce the law.
You answer what good will this do.
The next lot will pursue the same
methods. VIII keep right on turning
them out; never mind party or indivi-
duals; IN this matter keep right on
voting them out.
We nave been treated to vast
amount Of cant and hypocrisy on the
question of enforcement and nullilica-
ton. on one side the politicians cry
fer enforcement: as a rule they are not
| in Office. ON the other side they cry,
| The people don't want enforcement.
they Want'regulation; as a rule these
| politicians are in office. They are both
| going the way of least resistance. Too
| often the fault is with us laymen who
are busy with our private affairs. In
| fact SO busy that after a political
! camBaign is over and officials are in
| office We go about our work and fail
| either to commend faithful men or
| condemn and oppose the unfaithful.
| The result is careless and indifferent
administration OF unpopular ordi-
| nances and laws or a total disregard
of them. Meeting opposition from the
| lawlass, and Il threatened loss of votes
| in The next election and receiving no
| announcement from the good citizens
| they leave laws to work out for them
! selves.
| But some enc objects public senti-
ment does not warrant the official in
| enforcement. This is not true. The
| trouble is not in lack of sentiment bur
| in expressing il. | venture to suggest
| that where one man has urged the
| MAYER Of this city to enforce the laws.
| 20 lave advised him to leave thinss
alone.
| Sentiment, why we found out last
| fall about sentiment. \ majority of
/
| and after a careful presentation o.
| the question. Now those of us who
won want a square deal, we are not
getting it. TO say the least the other
| fellows lack the spirit of good losers,
| suggest that they read The Autoerat
| OF the Breakfast Table in which our
genial Doctor writes advice for
| sporting man,
| To brag little,-to show will,-to crow
| gently, if in luck
| To pay up, to own up and to shut up If
| beaten.
We Won. gentlemen. by small mar
| gin you say, certainly, SO we won
bail game in the last inning, won out
| by one score. II was a great finish.
ard the other side gave us the glad
hand. Come, gentlemen, be good sports,
! give VI fellows who fought you to
stand ctill. our victory: enforce this
| law and do it honestly
IL any one objects further then
| say, enforce the law, then it The pub
| lie don't want il they will repeal it.
! You believe if enforced it will be re-
| pealed. Prohibitonists believe if en-
forced people will like it and keep II.
| Enforcement is the answer 70 both
/ Sl'ies. 1Oillt, SeHltciitu, w Sp''
sports. Enforce this law honestly.
| like that statement OF Senator
| Gardner when he said in Bangor in
1905:
| II honor the man or men elected to
| office to enforce the laws that do their
! full duty, and | have no use for those
| who take the oath of office and then be-
| come law breakers themselves. de-
| nounce such action as vicious in its ef-
| fects. teaching disregard of all laws,
| lowering the standard of public morals,
| and leading along the pathway of an
| archy,, 1t makes no difference what
! may think is the better way to regulate
| the liquor traffic: that is of no conse-
quenoe only as matter of opinion; but
whether it applies to high or low, prince
| or peasant. enforce the law
This reads we'll Now let every OIL
| cial live m to 1.-THE Governor. III
sheriff the mayor, the city marshal.-
he coed sports. gentlemen. Enforce
this law against dives and clubs. she