Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-02-20
THE ROOT OF ALL EVIL.
Not Drunkenness That Is Unforgvable But
Encouragement of Drunkenness---Not
Vice ThatIs lntoIerable, but Stimula
ton of Vice for Profit.

The growth of the movement against alcoholism and the
Golfers for Feb p:
Paper by paper city by city, State by State the country
rising in its democratic wrath and attacking the strongod of
special privilege They long for private aggrandize
and wealth only the necessities of the people but their
weaknesses we'll With the unfortunate distribution of
pas characteristic of much of national thought the hefts
of property have their source the the
top while the of happiness have blamed
the hapess victim But independent press backed up by
aroused public opinion last making attempt put
the blame where belongs From many points echoes reach
doughty attacks the brewer and the whisky maker and
their ownership and the INTERPRETATION of their
with municipal politics Take this the Detroit Sat
urday Night
The saloon is strongest political power in
today. No man organization
Huence with the Gil
o heavily spirit
municipal iiteraey its
place sells beimes
upon
SALOON THAT BRANDED AS CON
sPCUoUs THE REPORT
GRAND JURY WHICH HAS JUST COMPLETED A SEARCHING
INQUIRY INTO THE AFFAI RS OF WAYNE COUNTY.
Our Detroit contemporary only the fact but
the coroary in that formula the understanding of which
the first step in the solution of commereazed vice:
No what phase of Detroit,
find the ground
From the St Louis Mirror comes the following showing
with the cearness of casual reference the familiarity of politics
with booze:
Brewing
soeaon for its supposed ha ckng of Mr. Nove He had
and employees supported him for Mayor
Finally from third city The Nashville (renn) Banner
says: !.
What the saturday Night" saws of Detroit is empbasizea in
Nashville
outlaw and its influence
all the repehensible.
We don't Nashville $
especial the Council THE GENERAL INFLu
ENcE EXERCISED OVER NJ uNIcIPAL POLITICS THE
CITY GOVERNMENT BY TIL LIQUOR INTEREST and its de
fance of authority
The Democratic
the awess liquor
the
Here in three cities far removed from other the
same situation the entire machinery of the government
bent to what is of the primary purpose of those who
control it. the stimulation of the of the commodities
which they sell liquor and vice. The Sinner enticed by
the prostitute The prostitute is adjunct of the saloon.
The saloon by the saloon keeper. But from door
Of the saloon keeper the trail goes higher These figures
taken from the year book of temperance organize
tons
of Louis are owned by the
BREWERS although the
In Toledo Ohio, saloons taxes on
the last allowed
25 saloons the Buckeye Bre
Brewing Company lone Company
the Schltz Brewing Conn
The italics 1t is drunkenness that unforgv-
able but the encouragement of dnnkenneSs that is
mtoerabe but the artificial stimulation of ae for profit The
first step toward the elimination of sin get the man
who makes money of it.
WHO is RESPONSIBLE?
FROM MISS JANE ADDAMSS book "a New Conscience
and an Ancient Evil:
careful scientist has called alcohol INDISPENSABLE aehicle
o. the business transacted by the 7vheave traders and
asserted that 71thont its this trade not Iona continue
1t IS estimated that the liquor sold BY such oy nets a
Lrade of