Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-07-04

Three eheers-just for once-for TIL
poor old married man!
1 For years Massachusetts has 5eei
Treating inebriates under the premis'
THAT they are suffering from disease
With the State Hospital at Foxboro, IN
State Farm at Bfidsewater and the pres
State probably only needs to so furthel
than ii is now doing.
Only $4,000 arrests in single city
to care for, with the other hundreds
of thousands of drunkards through
out the state, and their unprovided
/ for families on the hands of the pub
lic-under ideal REGULATION
we wonder how much the Bay state
is saving as it's share of the rum
| traffic. OF course the above does not
include the feeble minded, insane, and
criminal product of the traffic.
Again Uncle Dudley of the Globe
says:
.'Drunkards are sent to the State Farm
every day, where they work out the
liquor in their systems by hoeing corn
fields. Two or three doctors at the vast
much good, seeing that these sick men
are not overworked and are given "A
proper diet for their infiamed and cor
roded stomachs, their weakened hearts
and fevered brains. A building at Deer
Island used exclusively for drnnkards.
with separate wards for old and young,
fitted like a hospital with nurses t,sts,r a"a
doctor is likely to be at the right ilatu
of the Judge for an hour every morning.
What would the rum trust writer's
say of prohibition, if Maine had
N am .4oa.radad ctanaebs
weakened hearts and fevered brains"
annually?
How much farther is Massachusetts,
going in the unmaking and rehabili-
tation of men, for the benefit OF the
rum trust?
Here is the present Massachusetts,
plan: Become a partner in a business
that is destroying men and women by
millions; that is filling inebfiates
homes, lunatic asyums. and state
prisons. and at the same time perfect
a splendid system for rescuing the
battered wrecks.
Gov. Foss may well be alarmed at
conditions, and il is high time that
pretended responsibility awoke to the
shameless hypocrisy of regulation"
of the liquor traffic. 1t is NEVER
regulated except for the benefit of
the makers and sellers of booze, and
the inference is an awful lie.
In closing the Globes editorial
writer says:
Convince the unfortunate ones that
spiritnous liquors are poison, sagsestea
Edgar Allan Poe. Edward Everett Hale
once said that the greatest discovery oil
the last half-century was that intoxica-
ton was a disease. A discovery IS oil no
value unless 1t Is made use OF.
How shall we convince" them? BY
placing in every second window of our
cities an infiaming display of wines,
liquors and beers? BY publishing
page after page of appealing advertis-
ing in our great newspapers and
magazines advertising cunningly cal
culated to appeal TO the thirst OF
every person with a liking for III
toxieants advertising setting forth
the attractions of this brand or that. |
and urging the duty of showing hos
pitality, generosity and of being in
full keeping with the customs of the
ines? By lying to people of strong
er appetites than judgment, and tell |
ing them that ii is a social necessity
To drink in some degre. and that |
regulated" drinking is safe?
Is that the way the unfortunate are
to be taught that spirtuous liquors
are poison? The Globe publishes |
thousands of columns annually, set |
ting forth the claims of booze makers
and sellers, but does it EVER tell it's |
readers the truth, that spirituous
liquors ARE poison and that the duty
of foresight, intelligence and brother.
ly love toward the world is to down
this known and acknowledged evil,
rathen than in deliberately saving its
victims.
Let the Globe with other edueation-
al forces make use of the "discov-
cry"