Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-12-15
"Government by Hysteria."

ance with the usual methods of the pro-
fessional prohibitionist he interiards II
with inveetive and personalities. ne
takes occasion to make a bitter personal
attack upon a gentleman VINO stanos
high in the estimation of sensible men OF
all parties. From the galleries, packed
with the synpathizers of the speaker,
come cheers and the stamping OF rect.
The rules of the House are violated.
There is an unseemly exnipltlon OF pas.
sion and prejudice. A class OF people
who loudly proclaim their own virtues
disregard the wise requirement lnat Spec-
tators in the halls OF Congress snai, re-
frain from expressions of approval or
characterization of what Is said ana zone
The scene in the House on THURSDAY
should serve as a notice OF what may
ba expected in this country If these peo-
ME are encouraged. Here in Maine we
we'll know the intolerance ana the pfeS,iut
dice with which the doetfih Th oi p poI,ntry
81 large is now to have a taste OF tue
sarne thing It is to receive an eNliloit da
of that spirit which several centui af neo,
fa,nd expression in the burning OF peo ,-
ne ar the stake We are to nave Lg.n
Century campaign of persecution III the
interest of national prohipition. .,o,,,s
~ is a method of procedure that $50
II - 70 tueaisness of the cause. A move,
, ~ which relies upon intolsra1ee an 5
bitterness rather than upon S Ealnt ted
wei considered argu ,,,e se Is usloe9
~ ,,,rst have been "unseemly' TO
su,b sc the waterville Sentinei ana
others of the booze promoting element
re oourse. If the House galleries hao
been filed with a big delegation Ok
some great social order on a spree
ooch man filed with the product Oh 'iie
r,r trust. and yowling for personal
liberty" 1t would not have peeh an
"unsaemly', spectacle-it would nave
,aen only a good natured froiic. But
for the National House to De inter
rupted by the enthusiasm OF a great
moral purpose was glimpse Oh gov
eminent by hysteria."
II is an awful thing to be dls.uroea
b,y sober man who is working ior
bis own peace and safety and ngh'ihs
Cor vour soul and the salvation of your
family; but it is so common TO De III
sulted and embarrassed ana man
handled by drunken idiots that 1t
should now arouse no protest.
The intolerance" of people VINO at
last have mustered up courage TO oo-
iect 70 being made the victims of TINS
personal liberty" animalism Is beyond
the tolerance of the rum crowd. Ihey
inst can't stand it. The idea OF oelhs
told the plain truth in good serVlcea-
BILE English is awful "bllllngsgate'
THE truth is always ''billingsgate" with
tho r,,ra crowd. Hobson's indulgence
in 'invective' and personalities De-
oause he had the moral courage TO
nut the blame where it belongs-upon
tho scheming. rum-trust-owned poll
tieians-was bitter personal attack.
That is intolerance and bitterness
the Intolerance and bitterness" OF the
worm that has turned.
If youare still cowardly and cringlng'
accepting the abuse and the riotlng' as
saults and insults, debauchery and
criminaIty, as necessary evil and TO
be expected because the devil implant-
ed it and it always has been so, then
YOU are Cdiili wen NO%i'~S~-~~'
as our Waterville booze promoting
friends says, and the rum crowd Will
love YOU and pour poison into you Or
they CAM and if not they Will Insult
YOUR wife on the street or depraye the
finer sensibilities of your children by
sickening displays of bestiality.
If you object you are "intolerant';
If YOU cheer the man who has the cour-
age to object, you have violated the
sacred presence of body of "represen-
tatives," many of whom have been
elected by the bloody and vice-reeking
money of men in the business of max
ing and selling intoxicants-men who
force their product upon the weak and
unseaing through advertising and lying
and every shade of trickery and deceit
which the devil can invent
II you disbelieve the sophistry OF
these mighty liquor interests, and their
laid tools from Fort Kent to San Dr.
ego, you are guilty of unforgiveable
prejudice and should be burned at
the stake. Such passion" cannot be al
lowed to go unrecorded by such as
the Sentinel.
And so, according to our up-river
contemporary, I'VE are to have
twentieth century campaign of perse-
cution in the interest of national pro-
hibition."
Thank God OF course our readers
viii understand that it is 'inveetive"
to say so, and this editorial is written
in "hillingsgate.'' and displays 'intol-
GRANGE" and passion" and prejudice"
and it Is not calm and we'll consider
ed" like the falsehoods in the interests
Of the rum traffic. but every sentence
| of it is the truth and that is why it
makes such as our up-river contempt
rary tear it's hear and try to pass it
off calmly by way of sneers. The
truth is insufferable to evil, and that
10 what drives the liquor interests