Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-08-20

of the whole, are due to alcohol
This applied to this country means
$50 900 deaths in a year in the United
States. about 1000 a day as the result
of whiskey.
we are told that. the total number of
people killed in all of the wars since
Christ is only about 100000. Compare
tive figures show that alcohol is killing
as many people every year as all the
wars have In 2,e0e years, and applied
to the whole human race, 1t is said
that 3,5o0,000 people are killed annually
from the effects of alcohol
The British governpent claims that
II a man at 20 is total abstainer he
has an average prospect of Al years to
live. II he is a temperate regular
drinker, 81 years; if he is a heavy
drinker, Is years.
II Is estimated that there are 1,o00,-
900 confirmed drunkards in the United
States. and that 100000 die every day;
that there are 100000 heavy drinkers
and 20 100000 g temperate regular
drinkers, 6tfe e4
In these figures I have said nothing
about degenerates or criminals. You
have but to enter our charitable in
situations, insane asylums, sjails and
prisons to see the result of alcohol
which needs no statistics to demon
strate it's horrors.
Now, prohibition may not prohibit
everywhere ALI the time, but | know
it has done Il great deal in this State
in the 60 years past TO make us a
better. more prosperous, happy and
moral people than we would have been
with the licensed saloon.
Why license the saloon? Prior to
1860 such thing was not thought of
in this country. The demands of the
Civil war brought about the internal
revenue tax on the sale of liquor and
tobacco. We have taken it off of to-
bacco, why not take it off of alcohol?
/ prefer to pay an income tax, and
any man is better able to do it with
out drinking alcohol than he is to pay
it when she drinks alcohol. He losos
his money only in one case; in the
other, his money. reputation, health
and life.
Its Possibilities in Maine.
Why make monopoly of the rum
trade in the State of Maine2 1t might
keep the present Democratic machine
in power. / see nothing else it can do.
A rum, seller who has to pay IL
cense to sell rum has TO get just so
much more out of his patrons and he
has got to have certain legal protec-
ton by the government he pays his
money to. Why should the saloon
keeper be protected by our Govern
ment any more than man who sells
dry-gaods, groceries. hardware or farm
products The only reason | can see
for this demand is that he may gather
around him a few unfortunates whose
vote be can deliver to the Democratic
politicians of Name political trust
annexed to the rum trust.
All business interests cry out against
it. Even the last report, most inter-
esting volume, of the United States
Brewers Association says There is
no doubt that the real temperance
movement is steadily gaining ground.
The temperate man is marked man
in business and society. Public SER
vice corporations do not employ in
temperate men. Il is clearly reeeg-
ni5ed b. organized labor that drunk
c1sness is proper cause for dis
charge"
Err. Eliot's Confession.
And it is only within a very shprt
time that / was plea ed to read tt
1jr. Charles w, E'iiot,alate president of
Harvard College, orc OF the most dis