Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-06-26
Another Method.

And now, after reading the offer OF
booze wholesalers, read the deelara
ton of rum souled Maine news
paper:
Up here in Maine under enforce :
ment by Haines- made sheriffs they are
drinking embalming fluid, jamaica
ginger and bay rum
Sounds sensible and reliable. doesn't
it? And that is the sort of mex
cusable lies put forth by those In the
service of the liquor interests. TO ere
ate feeling. to arouse the spirit of per
sonal resentment against law and or.
der. to cause the ignorant TO believe
that they are misused under the law
and that under rum trust provisions
they would be much better off ana
would enjoy personal liberty.
Can YOU understand any other pur-
pose in such statement, In the hsh.
of the assurance of the liquor whole
salers themselves, and the amount OF
to Maine individuals every day. than
to inflame the rabble? Would this
simpleton of an editorial writer with
degenerate tendencies of the gray
matter and abnormal development OF
the stomach, expect his readers to be-
lieve that Boston or other wholesalers
send adulterated poison instead OF
straight whiskey OF other brands OF
poison?
But for unadulterated, simon pure
embalming fluid, we commend the fol-
lowing from the Biddeford Record oil
Tuesday. We hope our readers viii
go through it and get better UNDER
standing of the means adopted by
those opposed to the moral betternent
of humanity, To defeat intelligence and
character in the work of up INT.
Here it is:
.srhe liberty loving founders of our Re
public never dreamed that the tiiiie
would come when narrow ninoed hieu
would introduce a measure calling Tor
national prohibition of all distilled liquoi
as a beverage. ,,..aa,caa
yet such a measure was introduced
Saturday by Senator Works of CAN
fornia to become effective within three
years.
sixty years of prohibition in Maine
30 years of prohibition in Kansas, nave
shown the folly of attempting to make
people temperate by abstinence ieslsid-
ton.
"If such a measure as that proposed
by Senator Works should be passed py
Congress it would only be few years
before the auti-tobacco crank WOULD
seek the passage OF bin torpiddlns .hs
use of tobacco and then the vegetarian
would come forward with his bill com,
polling us to refrain from the use OIL
meat There is no end to the touH OF
sumptuary legislation when once begun
'Such a measure as that proposed by
Senator Works is all insult to the lnteiii'
gence of every Freedom American
'"Those of US who live in Maine car
see the folly of this measure more clear
| ly than those who have lived in states
which have never attempted prohibition.
| ''The fruit of 80 years of prohibition II
| Maine has been murder, insanity. drug
| using. official corruption, hypocrisy. de
| bauching of the youth and women OF ths
| tenements and drunkenness.
1.-THE Works bill would extend the
| shame of Maine and Kansas over the Ell.
tire nation.
| 1T would strike blow at the rights o
| American citizens. 1t would forbid liquo
| to the occasional or moderate drinker
| because of its misuse by the drunkard
! and in the end would make liquor easie
| for the drunkard to obtain and NOR
| difficult for the person who did not mis-
use it, for thus prohibition liquor law
| always work"