Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-11-14
Friday, November "a, 1918.
Education Against Evil.

attention is caught by a full page oil
less than so words, the type is 81
large and black. 1t reads;
FOR EVERY s1oo THAT THE
STATE RECEIVED IN 1912 FROM
LIQUOR LICENSES 1T PAID OUT
OVER $500 IN CARING FOR THE
CRIMINALS. PAUPERs AND IN
SANE BROUGHT TO OUR INSfI-
TUTIONS THROUGH DRINK.
WHEN YOU HEAR ABOUT REVE-
NUE. FROM LIQUOR THINK THIS
OVER.
These facts were worked out from
the Auditors reort of 1912, and the
26th annual report of Massachusetts
bureau of labor.
On another page, same issue, we
find, across the top in black type this
boxed in Tip" to the boy who wants
to make good to the man who is
looking for work, to the man who
has work but whose days are num-
bered because Of personal indulgence,
to all:
WHO is THE FIRST MAN TO
BE LAID OFF. AND THE LAST
MAN TO BE TAKEN ON? THE
MAN WHO DRINKS.
The liquor interests and the poor
tools who are always repeating their
false doctrines, say that those who
oppose the liquor evil are unfair, that
temperance progress should be made
by education of the victims and posi-
BILE victims. And yet they constant
iy flood the mails by letter, paid for
falsehood in editorial columns, and ad-
vertising in newspapers and maya
zines. for the purpose Of counteract-
ing any educational work which those
teaching the evils of drink may do.
Until within a few years almost the
entire medical profession has allowed
the belief to stand that alcohol was
a "stimulant" and thus of beneficial
use in all sorts of accidents and ills.
And even now an occasional deprav-
ed. alcohol-soaked or drug benumed,
so-called medical scientist, whose
morals were eaten years ago by his
own Indulgence Of appetites and pas
sions. attempts to stem the tide Of
human awakening to the truth. But
1t Is useless. The man who today up
holds traffic that the intelligence
81 the world knows Is evil in every
branch, is playing losing game.
The fellow who champions the dying
cause OF rum traffic. white slavery,
habit -forming drugs and their allied
curses to humanity. Is butting his
mead against stone wall And the
poor conscienceless tool who lends
himself to the service of these evils.
to active opposition to the laws
which restrain evil, and to open trea :
son to his fellow man, deserves n
wholesome period at the rock-pile on
which to work Off his satanic enthn.
siasm. We have them in Maine b,,,
they are growing beautifully less.
This weeks Journal of the Amer;.
can Medical Association shows tbt
tendency of modern scientific hand.
ing OF the drink evil and its guilt,
family. Editorially this publicatio,
says:
There are about fifty thousand oer
sons OF unsound mind in Hunaarv !.
the present day. Or. Decsi has draw,
assention to the fact that more tb.,
one-third Of this insanity is caused b.
drink and venereai diseases. He sue
0ssts the following rules for checkin,
the development Of mental deaenera
t'cn at the present day: I. Proven
ton Of those who have been insan
once from marrying. II may be stat
ed rs a certainty that many ,wome,
who have had one attack of Iunac,
would have remained free from a sec
end attack had they not married. z
immediate legislation Of compuIsor
confinement Of habituaI drunkard.
who are the greatest propagators o
tvnaties and desenerates. and VIII
should therefore be legally restraine
from infieting their own vice on othe
human beings. 3. Prohibition q
marriage by habitual drunkards. 4
Care in the administration of aicohs
e women, a. this very often make
the offspring > drunkard or a lunati,
s. General reformation Of the mar
riass system, with certain health re
quiremsnts. 6. Prohibition Of mar
riass when hereditary insanity exist
On both sides. 7. Prohibition Of mar
siass By parslyties, epiiepties, cor
sumptives and those affected with car
Ger. Z. Restriction Of the Iiqus
trade. 3. The establishment Of II
termsdiats houses. se to speak, whe'
thess suffering from acute, but ea'