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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-01-13
Who Says: ''Prohibition Does Not
Prohibit"

says pohibit?" liquor
Who profits when fails: The liquor dealer. Who fail?
The liquor dealer Why does fall Because the liquor
dealer consedy ncorrigibly criminal combination OF
Pagan and Bill Skies OF the popular will the
ular right
Does somebody that generalization the ground that
liquor dealers good speaking
speaking broadly of character aud weigh my words
Tell wherein fence for stolen goods than officer OF
big business that knowingly and wuy supplies liquor bothes
and peakeae the and confusion of law. Tell
the tickets
mails the prince
establishes his the ships alcoholic liquor
Illicit dealers prohibition Tell what kind of
dangerous liberty than the liquor dealer who denies and
the right of the question
prohbion? For sheer damnable
the liquor traffic ought be killed.
analysis of the failures prohibition We have this country
organized band OF business outlaws the determined
and efficient body American politics. business and the
crucet and the rwarder OF weddings
criminals office 1t undeniably difficult
unless this be of liquor dealers by liquor
for dealers this nasterful caba
clearly and unanimously despsed is due for destruction
And that Is prophecy, but living. growing The
abiding already coming their Decency sobey
under law gaining ground and the upockeed
conspiracy giving back with snarngs curses
o its fall-John G. Woley
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Compromise on Treaties.

II is to be hoped that the majority
of the Z. S. Senate has succeeded in
soothing its offended dignity, in the
Lodge resolution amending article
three of the arbitration treaties with
Great Britain and France 1t is said
TO meet the objections of certain
senator's and to be agreeable to the
administration, but the Democrats
still oppose it.
The effect of the amendment would
be to recognize the jurisdiction of the
Senate over the report of the joint
high commission of inquiry as to the
arbitrability of any question sub
mitted to the commission. Thus the
question whether or not a matter is
arbitrable might be referred to the
commission without the Intervention
of the Senate, but that body, by ex-
press provision in the treaty would
retain the power to approve or disap-
prove the findings of the commission.
The resolution is understood to en-
body the doctrine enunciated by Sec
rotary of State Knox with reference to
the Interpretation of the treaty pro-
visions. the secretary maintaining
that the treaties deprived the Senate
of no powers and the opposition de-
claring that they did. The amend
ment is intended to reflect and ex-
press in terms the view of Mr.. Knox
as expressed in his recent address in
New York upon the arbitration treat
les. 1t is believed that in their
amended form the treaties will be
ratified by the Senate
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lis most famous not fer its con-
sistency. persists dixie our ROYAL
Presence and few others) in de-
claring the voters THE people" And
we must once more call their atten-
ton To the fact that it was NOT the
people" who returned such small
majority against the rum trust in the
September plebiscite, but the VoT-
ERs, which is vastly different
proposition.
With devilish audaeity and ire
mendous accumulation of blood-reek-
ing dollars, the rum trust can buy
voters but it cannot buy The reo-
Pile"
The people" include noble and in
tellisent womanhoed and youth of
inanliness and womanliness who
CANNOT VOTE; hut the voters in
clude any and all thugs, repeaters
and old world oft-scourings whom un-
scrupulous politicians can hurriedly
naturalize and vote. The voters
also include practically all the drink
ers. buyers and sellers of rum ana
their allied political ward heelers and
criminal associates. They vote for
rum. and where they congregate most
there we find the majority
to whom our present governor and
his close associates appeal. II is 10
this class of voters" to whom certain
rum trust organs are paid the price
Of existence (when they are beyond
liberation by the people"D if they
will continue to appeal.
ANY sensible man CAN see that
here is an unfortunate condition of
the booze boomers
when, with all the hired thugs and
repeaters, booze cannot muster AZ per
cent. of the voters
And any sensible man or woman
can see that if the people" were to
pass upon the issue, it would be
buried under a majority of 100000
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Practical Saving by Churches.
Brockton Enterprise.)


The cold found New York's army of
homeless and idle people caught with
out provisions for shelter for all of
them. Cheap lodging houses. ferries.
missions and every place of refuge
was called on to house the unfortu-
nate. Even big summer excursion
boats, drawn up at their wharves,
We're thrown open, and in their half
warmed cabins some people passed
miserable nights, but saved their lives.
The manager of the Bowery Mission
appealed for help to churches, and
Grace church threw open its mission
Saturday night to house several hum
dred, and it's pastor sent money to
buy for the night 80 beds in lodging
houses. The Madison Avenue Presby
terrain church threw open it's doors and
a regiment Of men We're accommodate
ed there, and it's pastor sent money
for 100 beds. This was practical help
and deserves to be generally known,
Some churches and school buildings
in cities might well be thrown open
to the needy on desperately bitter
nights. To be sure janitors might
have their troubles next day, but they
can afford to work extra hard an oc-
casional day if they save humans
from frostbites, the hospitals, and per-
haps deaths from exposure.
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'Roostook Rum Roorbaeks.

The Kennebec Journal has discovered
that there are lew, if any, open saloons
in Aroostook county. We are pleased 10
observe that even our down river con-
temporary occasionally recognizes gem
orally admitted fact.-Waterville Sentinel
We are not ready to take oath that
there are ANY saloons in Aroostook
county, but we saw it in the Sentinel
quoted our contemporaries booze
boming correspondent. w T. Ash
by-and we promptly asked of the
people not generally interested in
booze. If it were generally admitted
fact" Because That Parkhurst
Man. generally admits his experiences
in securing rum-more particularly
from highly respectable" rum ladies,
who can find no other way in which
10 rear and educate beautiful and
talented daughters-we are not con-
WINGED that his facts are generally
admitted" by people not so partisan to
booze,
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Diamond in Chickens Gizxard.

After reposing three months in an
impromptu jewel case in the form OF
Il chickens gizzard three-quarter-
carat diamond, belonging to r. NJ.
Reel, a motion picture machine oper-
ator and former manager of the Occur
d Alene theater. was restored to its
owner a few days since.
Reel lost the gem, which is valued
at S75, from its setting in 4 ring he
wore early last September, while
working in the yard at his residence.
The ubiquitous chicken. then q young
Rhode, Island red rooster. seized upon
1t as q choice morsel and swallowed it.
His digestive qualifications were too
slight. however, for proper Gisintegra-
ton, and the famous diamond lodged
in the gizzard, where its province
was to crush stray pieces of glass
and cereal that found their way
into the "gizzardal' retreat. In the
meantime Reel gave up his search for
the sparkler, concluding it was lost to
him for all time.
Yesterday afternoon he went to the
hen house and killed the rooster for
dinner Mrs. Reel was dressing the
fowl when she found the missing dia-
mond, and now claims proprietorship
OF the stone based on an old conclu-
sion of the common law. Reels So
lace was III the form of choice bits of
the rooster after il was cooked. -
Spokesman Review.
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SOME WATERViLlE FACTS.
How Bar Rooms Are Openly Con
Quoted Undisturbed by Officials.

Editor Kennebec Journal;
The communication below was re-
jected by our daily paper. but per-
haps YOU will kindly allow space for
this reply
Waterville, Me, Jan. 3. 1912.
Waterville Sentinel.
Yeu said in an editorial this morn
ing. when the Civic League ReeorC,
sets UP the claim that prohibition is
a workable system in Cumberland,
Androscoggin and Penobscot counties
because the law is enforced in Aroos :
took, it departs from the statement
of recognized fact to the realm of
mere assertion
Your statement implies that there is
a fair and honest attempt To enforce
the liquor law in urban communities
in Maine where present conditions are
far frem satisfactory, and therefore
the liquor law is impractical except
for rural communities.
In our city, Waterxiile. present con-
ditions regarding the liquor traffic are
bad; the liquor law is not fairly and
honestly enforced; citizen cannot
confidently affirm that. il our present
executive officials enforced the liquor
law TO. the best OF their ability. the
law would not be INDICATED as prac-
teal and wholesome.
Here are some facts which can be
verified: ID Some bar-rooms are
conducted 50 openly that 10 to - bot
ties % spirits are exhibited on the
shelves back of the bar ca OF the
hire persons convicted during the last
three months for violation of the IL
quor law only one is q liquor seller
of prominence, and the names of only
three OF the fine appear on II list Of
Is persons who are paving. The Re
tail Liquor Tax" CU. 81 CD III 1911
in Waterville there were IA arrests
for drunkenness and 4as commitments
for drunkenness To the county Jail.
Only three times in is years have the
four cities and 26 towns of our county
all combined sent so many men to
Augusta jail as Waterville sent last
year ca Many persons sold liquor
in shops last year without being con
yicte1,
Aial-adminstration or good govern
ment is not the exclusive prerogative
of any party. and it ought to be free
" admitted that about 10 years ago
the other political party was nullify-
ing the liquor law in Watervilie just
as grossly. as their opponents are
now, Enforcement of law Is good
democratic doctrine and for several
years there has been II strong state
ment IN that subject in the demo-
cratic platform. our city is divided
on the temperance issue, but no con-
siderable portion of our population
has vet declared themselves in favor
of anarchy. Why not enforce the
laws
H. y. PRINGLE.
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Editorial Comment
Oen,ocracy's Leaders.
Bath TinleS.)

&ipdNi 81
While Governor Plaisted is doing his
prettiest, with the Democratic ma
chine behind him, To undermine
Names prohibitory policy and give
the liquor interests a foothold in the
State, it is interesting to note that
the Worthiest leaders of the Dem
ocraey in the nation deprecate the al
nance of the party with the man-de-
stfoylnS traffic. a teetotaler himself
IN principle and practice, Mr.. Bryan
mas no love for what are called the
liquor interests. He has clashed with
them in Nebraska politics quite re-
Gently. He has advertised his purpose
to free the Democratic party Of that
State from their domination. Because
OF belief that an old friend of his.
Mr.. bahlman of Omaha. had been i'm
posed by them upon the party as its
nominee for the governship, Mr.. Bry-
an refused to vote for him. It's re-
ported that he would like to see Con-
gress prohibit common carriers from
carrying liquor from wet" states into
dry states. Some persons think
that he is at heart a Prohibitionist.
And rumor says that both DR. Wood
row Wilson and DIR. Judson Harmon
feel about the activity of the liquor
interests in Democratic politics as Mr..
BRYAN does
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Maine Democrats for Wilson.

What's this? The Harmon Plaisted
bubble busted? And Johnson and the
Royal Presence approving Wilson?
Verify, Governor Frederick w must
have stopped to mislead the District
of Columbians when he told them his
visit had no political significance IT
looks like deliberate attempt to elm
mate some of the multiple Democratic
factions. But of course Johnson and
Plaisted and other Wilsonians viii
have care not to bump into the Foss
boom in Massachusetts,!
Now If Champ Clark and Bryan,
and Underwood. and a few others
would turn to either Wilson or Har-
mon. Republicans could guess whom
they are TO be up against
And wouldn't it be fine if the Maine
election were on the same day as the
Presidential, so that Wilson could help
lug the Maine booze crowd through
But we believe it has been rumored
that Governor Wilson is opposed to
rum trust methods.
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days. The general average age since
1904 is 80 years, months and days.
The number of years of practice va
ried from l to 20, Che average being 80
years, 10 months and days. The gem
eral average for the past eight years
is u years. ) months and % days. The
chief death causes in the order named
We're cerebral hemorrhage, heart dis
ease" senility, pneumonia. external
causes and kidney disease.
Three hundred and forty-four died
who had served in the Civil war, and of
these 81 served under the Confederate
flag. and l03 were medical officers of
United States Volunteers. There We're
5 veterans of the Mexican War; Il
had served in the Spanish-American
War; one had been a surgeon i'll the
early campaigns against Indians on
the western frontier. and s had seen
service in foreign wars. The Army
lost 10 medical officers. past and pres
ent, and in addition, officers Of the
Medical Reserve Corps on the active
and inactive lists, and % acting assis-
tant or contract surgeons. The Navy
lost 10 officers, and the Public Health
and Marine Hospital Service, Il, in
Guiding It's surgeon Seileldl. / HS
death loss of the Organized Militia
was &c, of whom 4 had attained the
grade of surgeon general.
Medical colleges sustained the loss
of 157 professors, lecturers. instructors
and demonstrators: hospitals lost 35i
members of STATS; municipalities.
townships and counties. 1S5 health Of
ficers or physicians. and boards of
education and school boards, % MEM
hers. There We're A. deaths of mem
hers of state boards OF health and
medical registration and examination;
1t. of coroners and medical examiners,
and f24 of railway surgeons
OF those who died, / had been GOV
ernor; 10 had been members of state
senates, and as members of houses of
representatives: IL had been mayors;
ST aldermen or eouneilmen; u had
served as civil officers: II as postmas-
ters 80 as editors, medical or lay; IL
We're also clerexmen, of whom we're
or had been medical missionaries; ;
had been attorneys; 9 were consuis,
and Is had been medical directors Of
lif. insurance companies or fraternai
insurance societies.
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Abdul Hands DAYS.

Abdul Hamid. otherwise acclaimed as
abdul the Damned is now 60 years
old In his Aladdln-like villa, where he
is closely kept ont of sight, II is said that
he occupies himself with working at the
carpenters bench AMI arranging elab-
crate dinners with his chief cook. The
Young Turks have not sought to take
away a reasonable amount of what the
old man considers necessary to his COM
fort and amusement. provided he will
not plot to return 10 power. in which
case they will cut off his subsidy. Since
bis reinforcement. he has added 90 Circas-
sian girls TO his household and TO these.
quite recently four more. and tho Otto
man treasury pays the expense Of these
acquisitions.
1t is said that the old sultan rs thor
oughly detests his jailer, Rassi Bey, as
did the great Napoleon his jailer. Hudson
Lowe, at st. Helena, and has not ad-
dressed 10 words to Rassi since his cap
tivty began.-Le cri de Paris.
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Currency.


President Taft has spoken of the
currency situation as the most lmpof-
tant of all those now confronting the
American public This being proba-
bly, true, ii Is an unhappy TACT that
the easiest way to get popularity ana
dramatic effect is TO scold at Wall
Street and shout to the public that
''Aldrich will get YOU il you don't look
out" Journalists with yellow ten
dency will inevitably take this direc-
tion. as the lire of least resistance,
and many Progressives VIII be gen
uinelv unable to believe that anything
hearing the name of Aldrich can fail
ia enanate from the devil. We heart
ily agree with Secretary MacVeagh,
President Taft, Paul Warhurg, Profes-
sor Seligman, and almost all the
soundest and most careful students OF
the currency problem. that the A'drieh
Bill. whatever its defects in detail, Is
sound in general principle. There Is
comparatively little danger that any
Of the defects will be overlooked IN
the energetic criticisms which VIII De
launched against 1t in Congress. The
danger is quite the opposite. me
danger is that the immense value ana
fundamental soundness of the central
,,rinciples will be lost in the fury OF
denunciation. one of the tiresome,
CHEAP, and easy weapons of current
controversy is the assumption that
ANYTHING that is approved by wan
street must be wrong. Wall street
includes number of tricky speeuia-
tors and monopolists ard a lot or hys-
terieaI brokers, but also Il large num-
her of sound and fair minded business
men. and the phrase is often USED
with no conscience whatever. merely
IN produce successful scare
we do not wish to conceal the
fact that straightaway central
bank like the Bank OF ENG
land would suit our own views
but as tradition. since the time OF An
drew Jackson, in this country makes
a single Government bank polliicaiN
impossible, we believe that it IS u Sc
rious misfortune that the Aldrich plan
is 10 be met in the main with deina
eogic wells. Some time we are hkels
to point out what we think the uelec's
of the plan in detail but at the PRES
eut time the important task is 10 III
duce the public to cease having nus ~
blind fear and come as near 10 STUDY
ing the scheme fairly and impart'aiis
as it is able to come.
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Coming Events

Jan. 13-Poultry show, Skowhegan
Jan. 13.-knox Pomona Grange meets
with South Hope Grange.
Jan. 15-Southern York Co. Teachers
Assocati ton, So. Berwick.
Jan 17-Aroostook and Penobscot Union
Pomona. Monticello.
Jan. 17-Maine Loan &c Building Asso-
citation annual session, Bangor.
Jan. 1s-Meeting of the Governor and
Jan. 1S-No. Franklin Pomona, Phil
Jan. 2s-East Kennebec Pomona, Vas
Jan. 25-2s-Mid-winter Meetings of
Maine Federation of Women's Clubs.
Dexter.
Jan. 25-2S-Eightil Annual Conference
on Child Labor, Louisvilles Ky.
Jan. 3l-Sagadahoc Pomona with Dirigo
Grange, Brunswick.
senator in. Androseoggin, Waldo and
York counties.
Feb. 6-Hancock Pomona with BroolSlin
Grange
Feb. e-waldo Pomona with Riverside
Grange, poors Mills, Belfast
FEB. 6--Oxford Pomona, Bryants Pond.
Feb. 6-12-Food Fair, bangOtR
March Especial Election of state Sen
ators in Androscoggin and Waldo Coun-
March SENSATIONAL Civic Federation.
Washington, ID. G.
March l1-Specfal Election OF state Sem
ators in York County.
March Estate Board of Trade, Au-
glista.
March Especial Session OF Maine
March 27-MaIne Methodist Conference
at Lewiston.
March 27-East Maine Methodist Con-
April i0.-State Republican Convention,
June 1s-National Republican conyen-
ton. Chicago.
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Richeson's Punishment.
(Biddeford JournalD


In view of the Nervousness OF his
offense, there would seem to be but
one ground upon which counsel for
Rev. Clarence V. r Richeson can base
a petition for n communication of death
sentence to life imprisonment. This
is that capital punishment is wrong
If capital punishment is permitted I'M
der the law. however, as it is in Mas
sachusetts, there is no reason in equi-
~ or justice why the murderer of Avis
Linnell should not pay the full penal
ty for his terrible crime. That it was
deliberate, premeditated murder
there can be no doubt and a commu-
tation of sentence, in the circumstances
would be practically equivalent to Il
miscarriage of justice.
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Deaths of Physicians in 1911.

During 1911, the deaths of 2,145 ply
sieians in the United states and the
Dominion of Canada were noted in
The Journal of the American Medical
Association Reckoning on conser-
vative estimate of 100000 physicians,
this is equivalent to an annual death
rate of 1892 per 1000. For the nine
previous years the death-rates We're
as follows: 1910. 1896; 1909, 1926; 1908,
1873; 1907, 1901. 1906. 17.2; 1905, 1876;
1904, lila: 1903, 1873; and 1902, 14.I4.
The average annual mortality Tor the
period from 1902 to 1911 inclusive was
therefore 1911 per LOCO The age at
death varied from 90 to 80. with an
average of 50 years, 10 months and
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Not 1.-The People" but the Voters"

"Public sentiment in Aroostook calls
for pretty stringent enforcement. Pub
lie sentiment In some other parts of
Maine does not sanction that sort of en-
forcement Officials in Penobseot. or
Cumberland counties. for example, are
Aroostook county.
This condition of things was empha-
sized by the result Of the vote last Sep
TENDER which put one-half the people in
the attitude of forcing on the other half
something Which they did not want Any
sensible man can see that here is an un-
fortunate condition of things certainly
Inent of the pronfbitofy law i'm all sec
tions of the State. Therefore the Gov
ernor includes this question of prohibit
ton among his reasons for calling n
special session. IL is 10 be hoped that
the legislature will be able TO devise a
plan which will give Aroostook people
what they want and AT the same time
out the will of the people in other sec
lions of Maine. -Wateryille Sentinel.
Most exauisitely and excruciatingly
yours for rum.
Ii CITY majority vote for rum,
Why the rummies MUST have IL:
but if STATE majority does NOT
want rum. why the rnmmies are sore
~ aggrieyed. especially those who are
reaplng rich rum trust reward for
securing the goods.
!, Our up-river contemporary, which
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Royal Grape Vine.

The Windsor royal vine is now bear
ing as many as 500 to 600 punches of
grapes. averaging about four to five
pounds in weight. This vine, like it's
famous contemporary, the Hampton
court vine, is of Black Hamburg va
riety. The King and Queen take a
great interest in the vine and fire.
quently visit II when in residence at
Windsor; it is said that they prefer
its fruit 10 that of any in the royal
gardens. The vine dates from 1861
and covers "a roof area of 2400 square
feet.-Manchester IN. HI Union.
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in accord with the purpose of an expert
ment station and with the language of
the act that called most of the American
STATIONS into being. More than 50 scien-
utc projects are being undertaken at
the farm. Some of them are of such ma
ture that preliminary results have al
ready been obtained. Others will give
results after two or three more wears.
Some OF the Investigations in apple prop
agation and breeding will not Yield de-
cislVe results for many years. These last
are among the more important studies
underway and necessitate careful plan
ming and close attention.
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convalescence.

Convalescence is sometimes merely
apparent, not real, and especially Is
this true after such diseases as pheu-
monia. typhoid fever and the grip. TO
make it real and rapid. there IS no
other tonic so highly to be recommend
ed as Hoods Sarsapariila.
This great medicine an
renews the blood, strengthens all Tue
organs and functions, and restores
health. Take HOODS