Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-03-22
"The Bishops Request


"The Bishops Request
When our prohibition friends make
speeches in Maine they are fond of tell
ing how prohibition prohibits in Kansas
Just as when they speak in Kansas they
are prone to enlarge upon the success OF
| prohibition in Maine. 1t must come,
| therefore, as something of shock u
| Maine believers in prohibition to learn
| that a Methodist bishop who registered
ut a hotel in Lawrence. Kansas, ana
| asked for drink was promptly supplied
! with bottle of whiskcy. OF course,
the reverend gentleman wanted a drink
of water. lie was prompt to protest
| when the ardent fluid was produced and
made complaint to the proper authori-
| ties.
stories which have been told in Maine
about the enforcement of prohibition in
| Kansas are to be received with doubt
! \ Methodist bishop would not stay al
hotel which did not have reputation
as well conducted and respectable
! house of entertainment. Nor Is Meth
! odist bishop a man whose appearance
would suggest that when he asked for
| a drink lie wanted whiskeY. Yet. when
| the bishop said to the porter That ne
| was thirsty and wanted drink, the
| hotel servant hurried out and returned,
| not with a pitcher of ice water but
| with a long necker.
If when bishop staying at a repu-
| table hotel in Kansas. asks for a drink
| it is assumed that he wants whIskeY and
| the whiskey is supplied it would appear
|
sas is not conducted in Speakeasles ana
| the dives Of the bootleggcfs. 1t really
! looks as though prohibition IN hanSas
was very much like prohibition IN Maine.
Guess who wrote the above! No
prize is offered, for we don't know
who arranged and set it to music
but we remember the ground work of
it in recent literature put out by the
| liquor trust. Now we wonder If you
could ever guess who would be most
likely to grab for such stuff and feed
| it to its readers,
| OF course the Senti-- we mean our
| exchange. does not voueh for the
truth of the story. but publishes it
without names because it is fond OF
that kind of stories The Sen
we mean our contemporary, draws II
marvellous moral from such rum
trust compilations, and it matters not
whether they be true.
But have You in such publications
! ever read anything like the follow
| ing from the Boston News Bureau.
financial publication of reliability and
conservatism, that charges us So
year for subscriptions
Chicaeo-Ralroad managers here
are willing to lose 100000 in freight
revenue from liquor shipments as the
result of the Webb (federaD law if
it reduces the expensive confusion of
! 60 NH
| pal liquor laws and promotes the
general cause of temperance which
the railroads are aiding in practical
ways, especially among their own en-
ployees.
The railroads are not blind to the
value of the moral features of the
| temperance campaign as commercial
| ly conducted, and they expect that
one result of a higher moral tone will
be enough additional agricultural
freight to offset many times the
amount of the loss in liquor freight
to say nothing of additional travel. 1t
is another case of ethics emerging
from economies. Nearly all roads
! have HIDE bound anti drinking rules
/ and these now extend in a majority of
cases to the officers as we'll as the
trainmon. Intoxicating liquor has
been abolished in all dining cars be-
tween Chicago and ST. Louis, in
Iowa, Nebraska and on many of the
eastern lines.
All of the big railroad companies
operating out of Chicago into prohi
bition states are issuing orders that
| they will refuse shipments of intoxi
eating liquors destined for points in
| prohibition states. Into the states of
! Oklahoma and Georgia all shipments
of liquor are absolutely refused. To
! Kansas the dealer must certify that
the order is bona fde and the name of
the consienee is on file in the liquor
dealers office and on the bill of lad
ing. Also the shipper must take all
risk and waive claim for damages in
case the liquor is confiscated by the
state authorities. This is in conform
ity with the Webb law allowing states
to confiscate liquor on interstate ship
| ments.
The biggest losses will be in beer
from Chicago and Milwaukee and ST.
Louis, while there will be large def
cts in whiskey traffic from the PEG
ria and Louisville NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
News Bureau.
Looks as though the booze business
was getting squeezed "a bit, in spite
of it's desperate methods and repet-
ton Of old lies, doesn't it? If there
were few more Kennebec Journals
scattered over the country, and a few
less organs selling themselves to the
service of the rum traffic, we would
soon have only a temperance" ques-
tion to argue instead a constant
fight with an outlaw which lives by