Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-10-10
Remarkable Review of Maine Law.


On Monday, Oct. IA, the Kennebec
Journal expects to publish most re-
markable compilation of statistics on
prohibition in Maine, its effect on
temperance its rise and fall under
rigid and lax enforcement, and the
general tendency of the last decade or
more, as shown by a careful COM
parison of figures.
This valuable article has been pre-
pared with great care and at large
expense, and tits expected that most
of the Journal readers and many thou
sands of Others will wish to preserve
it for, reference. 1t will cover ap-
proximately two pages of the Journal,
in text and tables. The court records
of every county in Maine for twelve
years are given in such form as to be
grasped at a glance. If you wish to
know the number of arrests fines,
imprisonments, appeals. mol pressed
cases, ETC., in your county for any
year since 1900, it is there.
If is the Kennebec Journals pur-
pose to give this valuable information
as wide circulation possible. II
the secretaries of temperance or other
organizations opposed to the liquor
traffic, will send their addresses,
copies will be sent for filing.
We believe it is the time and the
accepted time for the most active and
effective work for temperance and
moral advancement ever done in
Maine.
We stand squarely and fearlessly for
these things. We propose TO oppose
the liquor traffic continuously and
forcefully, and to stand or fall by the
approval or disapproval of the people
of Maine.
On the part of this newspaper it is
no splurge or sudden determination.
We have adopted the policy perma-
nently of an active temperance news
paper-a newspaper that is second to
none in Maine in the well balanced
and broad scope of its news service,
and yet ever to be depended ON by
any movement for public good as an
active agent. We can always find
room for an item looking to educa-
tional progress, moral uplift or
physical betterment of the general
public.
Convinced that the booze (all class
es of intoxicants and habit forming
beverages) traffic is the greatest of ali
evils, combining all and inspiring the
majority, the Kennebec Journal has
for many months waged an active
campaign against intemperance and
the makers and sellers of booze. 1t
has won the approval of the bedrock
citizenship of Maine, and wide ac-
quaintance throughout the country.
Appeals for exchange come to us from
papers in all parts of the United
States. Our growth is steady and
flattering, and is made without sub,
scription gathering schemes or cam
paigns by solicitors. From frank let
ters and unsolicited subscriptions we
have proof of increasing public ap-
prevail
We do not take all this as credit to
ourselves but, rather, feel that we are
responding to the demand of Names
best people.
We have learned that they not only
| want the news on time, served up
reliably and sensibIy, but they want a
paper that stands every day as friend,
| companion and inspiration.
| The men and women of Maine who
stand for all that is best in human af-
| fairs, desire a newspaper that always
| can be trusted in the family circle:
one that carries no false or degener-
ate ideas to the young, or encourages
folly in the older. They wish, in
| thSil Ilbiiitot At newspaper eHot ~
| WAYS has something understandable
and worth reading, IN ADDITION TIC
THE NEWS OF THE DAY.
The Kennebec Journal believes tina
the foundations of many characters
are made or marred by single sen
tence, read or heard, that touches
responsive chord and ever after fig
ures as a key note in that person
mental scale. With that idea upper
most in our editorial department, it
/ our aim to carry to the young in tn
homes of our subscribers such idea
, as will prove of value to them no,
and in after life.
| And that is why we stand firml
against the liquor traffic and its allie