The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1912-01-11

idiots because their parents drank SO
self too highly taxed, she reyolted.
These children are paying a greater
tax than Boston ever did.
THE public may be considered as
great firm of which the public officials
are clerks. If the clerks do not at
tend to business, they should be dis
charged
1t is said that there is more drunk
enness in Maine under prohibition
than there would be if it were licensed
This statement is untrue. In Harris
burg and Buffalo, when at a restau-
rant for dinner, even the women and
children drink beer
1T is our duty as Christians to
help men do right. Some men say
they will cut loose from apron strings
of women. Even when they do this
are they not attaching themselves to
the apron strings of the saloon
keeper?
After the recent campaign state
ment was issued which said that rural
towns ought not to keep the cities
from having what they wished This
question is something like the one
which caused the struggle between
the North and South. Local option is
means to an end, first to state wide
prohibition, then from state wide pro-
hibition to national prohibition.
The Model License System prom
Uses this:
i. One saloon to five hundred PEG
pie.
- They shall not sell to woman,
minor, or drunkard, neither shall they
sell Sundays.
%. Shall not sell after II o'clock
at night or before o'clock in the
morning.
4. Best of all, they guarantee
good whiskey.
5. Legalized saloons drive out
blind tigers.
&c. They shall not sell on election
day.
In New York there is an average of
one saloon to every two hundred peo-
pie. 1t has thirty-two thousand co.
000) legaliZed saloons but only sixteen
Cl6) times as many blind tigers as
there are in Maine. There is no city
that does not have more than one
saloon to five hundred people
There are eighteen 0S) saloons
within two hundred and fifty t250l
feet Of the Dante school. IN the
west end Of Chicago over five thou
sand $4,000 children buy liquor daily.
There were one thousand f10901
minors arrested last year for drunk
enness in Boston.
Saturday night the liquor dealers
remove their wares to another room
and sell all day Sunday. The time law
is not kept any better than this Sun
day law. Twelve men were killed sud
denly in New York by drinking bad
whiskey. Forty-fve in Rhode Island
died for the same cause. An old gray
haired campaigner once said that
there was no good Whiskey
One election day came and in order
to get around the law forbidding the
sale of liquor, room was hired and
it was given away. Thus one party
bought votes all day with whiskey.
That evening, after the successful can
didate had been put to bed insensi-
BILE a crowd of his followers were
and carousing on a street
corner, and in their midst were two
or three policemen Local option sys-
TEN or license do not do what they are
said to.
America, the best and greatest ma
ton, i mis- dnac dt0$mj9n shrdl pup
ton, is in danger of destruction. lust
as Rome declined through debauchery,
so America may decline. 70 avoid
this, She must raise her standards
and make the citizens live up to them. F
Liquor is the greatest enemy of a
nation. Just as the Duke of yelling
ton, when he saw his men waYering,
cried, 'Ninety-five, Stand fast, What
will they in England say so Amer
lea must cry, Citizens, stand fast"
What will the people of the world
say and then press on to victory"