Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-06-11
Tho Frantic Liquor Crowd.

of the fallacy. of the only argument n
ever had in the service of a deprave'
and discredited business still goes oil
asserting that black is not black an'
white is not white; still attempts t.
deceive a few persons or even one,
For years thousands of Maine people
have been systematically deceived. Fol
years they have been told the sam'
old falsehoods with such cock-sur;
GOODNESS and regularity from eertaif
sources that they were almost com
nelled to believe the braZen statements
And long ago the natural defenders
and educators of the people seemed tf
give up largely. aggressive reputation
of the sophistry always afloat.
Every day. in some form. the liquor
traffic is spreading its false DOCTRINE
through some of its paid tools. In our
state they cannot openly advertise IN
toxicants. but they can do the next
thing-own a few newspaper count
1ng-foOfnS anu eoitoio Nh"t
dav. produce the drivel and falsehoods
of booze business methods.
You have, undoubtedly. thought how
soon people are said to tire of moral
topics and how avidly they grasp the
immoraIo That is said to be human
nature. But have you ever noticed now
soon the general public will begin 10
say. I'm sick of this eternal temper
anee question:" And do they ever en-
ter complaint about the eternal advo-
cacy of an unholy business?
The Kennebec Journal has made
many and strong friends by It's stana
npon the temperance and liquer traffic
question. 1t has also made and kept
;rritated. powerful and vindietive enc
mics. These have tried every means
known to the business to discourage or
deter us from waging as constant war
against the rum traffic as is ana al
WAYS has been maintained for the evil.
Before the 1911 campaign was hals
fought out men who pretended TO be III
sympathy with the temperance element
and the prohibitory law came to US to
nrotest against so much talk on the
rum question. why. the people are
sick and tired of hearing and reading
it, they said. .
These declarations are frequently re-
heated and, in measure, they are
true. The people do get tired oil 50
much upon one subject. We get tired o.
it. And we also get very tired OF such
downright devilish attempts to squeeze
ont a few more dollars for the beer
trust and the whishey trust, as We
find from day to day in such sheets n
the Waterville Sentinel, Portland Ar
gus and Biddeford Record. II they ever
for moment let the question rest, lei
the matter of peoples thirsts or deter
limitations, good or bad, to themselves
instead of pesistently and interninipiA
living about 1t, the moral press tie pui
nit. teachers and others, could aitort
to trust the natural tendencies OF
reople daily acquiring enlightenment.
But read this from the Pattangai
organ:
"Sherif Scuilys enforcement OF IN
prohibitory law in the city of Poftidi'
has had the result of making the sur
rounding country the scene OF Sunua.
orgies On two Sundays deputy sheriii
have raided farm in the nearby Tow
IF Falmouth and have found evidence
that the place has been resofted TO y.
considerable numbers of men who nay
spent the hours of the day in drihkii,
and earousing. How many other sucl
places there may be is not apparent.
The inference intended is, of course
that these places do not exist under
wide open Pattangall- Plaisted run
regime.
With all the rum holes that hav,
been closed, the tools of the booZ'
traffic hunt out every report of a fine
by the officers, and talk about it "a
though the countryside had become
lined with disreputable resorts nevel
known uDueT rum lIust CohtAoi.
Another striking illustration of thu
idiocy to which some men will chair
themselves appeared a few days ag'
in the Biddeford Record. 1t raved for
column or so about the horrors of rea
enforcement of the liquor law. makin
it possible for Bangor boys to fin
liquors hidden by rumsellers, and ge
drunk OF course the liquors woul
not have been hidden under a Pattan
gall rule-unless they were bought G
a firm not paying tribute to some Off
ciaI CRATER But boys determined
get drunk would not have been oblige
TO search out the hide which officer
had been unable to find. they woul
have stepped into police-protecte
rum shop and have bought the booz
as they can in almost any license cit,
And still these papers go on tellin
about "strict regulation, under rur
trust law.
just now the three above name
sheets are trying to convince the
readers that drunkenness is increasin
under rigid enforcement of the law. 1
anita IF tho fart Thar they ru1.sf kpO,