Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-02-28
The Man Who Made Money Out of 1t.

This time it uses another case. a ter
| ribe crime that is fresh in the minds
of the news readers. On the other
occasion the Kennebec Journal pub
| lished Golfers desire and added that
the picture of Uncle sam should be
used in connection with that of the
| booze manufacturers. also as one who
! made money out of it," Golfers
next Saturday will say, editorially:
In New York last week man
| murdered his twelve-year old daugh-
| ter and wounded his wife. We quote
from his confession as printed in the
Evenings Nails account of the
tragedy:
4 came home at midnight. ! had had
several drinks before coming home.
sat down by the side of my wife's bed,
| Then my wife woke up. She
ran into the hall. AS she did SO I fired
one shot at her. She fell in heap in the
hall | thought ] had killed her. Turn
ing back into the bedroom, | saw move
ment underneath the bedclothes. By this
time | was in a terrible temper ana
fired three shots into the bedclothes with
out looking to make sure who was there
1--WE wish we could bring about
state where no newspaper or reporter,
in a case like this, would consider his
story complete until he found out the
brand of whisky that the murderer
drank, and got the name and photo
graph of the maker of it. There are
a good many sad things about our
civilization, but few more diseouraG-
ing than the fact that in Baltimore
and Louisville, men who make whisky
and use all the arts Of trade to stimu-
late its consumption are able. by
virtue of their money, to escape the
odium which attaches to all others,
like gamblers and panders, who stimu-
late crime and profit by exploiting hui
man weakness"
In attempting to answer the
previously published editorial by Col
lier's, the National Wholesale Liquor
Dealers Association. prints an
asinine argument by the Omaha Bee,
in part as follows:
That the view from Golfers
sanctum toward the liquor traffic is
obscured by clouds of prejudice has
been patent to most of its readers for
some time, but as the proclaimed
harbinger of truth and enlightenment
it should not impose upon them with
such grossly misleading comment as
contained in this editorial.
Does not Golfers know that in at
least nine cases out of ten where a
criminal pleads drunkenness he lies in
order to shield himself from the gray
er consequences of serious crime?
But assume that this negro pleaded
truthfully, and also that whisky, in
stead OF beer or patent medicine, was
the intoxicant.
Since about three-fourths or more
of the value of all whisky sold goes for
INTERNAL revenue ltasn 10 pay, the exI
penses of the national government. the
man who profits most is Uncle Sam,
whose picture ir connection with this
crime, if Golfers suggestion were fol-
lowed by the Times, be most appro-
PIRATES, because he reaps the lions
share of the income from all liquor
sold. The retailer, who may be
either conducting his business proper
ly or be a joint keeper protege os
municipal politics, would be next in
line. If the one who did sell this
particular negro liquor had not done
so, some one else would. Where
there is a demand there is always,
somewhere, a supply. Stop the de-
mand (by education) and see how
quickly the supply will cease"
There you have the genuine rum
trust argument; the parrot-like rep
etition (by an apparently subsidized
promoter of the traffic. of the Hades-
inspired appeal to weakness illiteracy
and to license disguised as personal
liberty"
Always they declare that the "DE-
MANO" must be stopped by "EDUcA-
TON" yet their capacity for false
education and creation of "DE-
MAND" is almost beyond calculation.
But for the exploiting of the booze
business to create DEMAND, the de-
mand would shrink, we are con-
WINGED, fifty per cent. in a single year
The millions of dollars now annually
pouring into the safes of the makers
and sellers Of booze, depend upon the
building up of "DEMAND."
That is the whole secret of turning
human bodies and souls into cash-the
constant increase (by lies, deceit. cum
ming appeal to the passions and appe-
tites of men. the stimulation of all
that is depraved and bad in humanity
of DEMAND"
OF course there always will be 4,
supply for any sort of evil demand
just so long as the government per-
mits the manufacture of the supply,
and participates in the unholy profits
of the traffic.
IT. is true that (to the shame of
| every honest, decent American) the
United States is reaping rich revenue
| from its share of the rum traffic