Daily Kennebec journal., 1913-04-12

bgot, which never saw the truly
moral or rplft side of amy question
/ They seem TO cat, sleep drink and
| absorb nothing but rum literature.
| They tell the people of Maine to their
| faces that they voted against the rum
| plan of the PattanGall- Plaisted-
| Davis team" out of pure hypocrisy.
The Sentinel says the people wan.
the law but are opposed to enforce
ment. In the campaign of 1910 they
pretended that if elected the Demo-
cratic party would give such enforce
ment as would forever kill the pro
hibitory law. Why didn't they do IL
Why did conditions jump to the worst
ever known in this state, the very
minute Democracy was seated"
The Democratic leaders pledged
their faith in booze and lost by thou
sands of votes. 1t is a matter of COM
mon knowledge that when those who
had banked on their chances of re-
election learned that they had been
overthrown by several thousand votes.
they were dumbfounded. They could
Mt believe that their claims for booze
had not tided them over. But the
people knew.
And now these same leaders are re-
heating their false declarations i'll the
VAN hope that Republicans will do as
bad as they, and will. in turn, be Gust
ed by the people for attempting Ia
evaee their duty in the enforcement Of
law
To put il mildly and plainly, So that
none need mistake our meaning, let us
say that the Watorville Sentinel is ly-
ing, openly and brazenly, about the
people of Maine The publishers and
editors of the Waterville Sentinel know.
as well as VIC know, that an over
wh, Inning majority OF the "CffIZENSs
fnotsvoters) of Maine want the prohibit
tory law ENFORCED. And they know.
IS we'll as we know. that If the Rcpno-
lican party makes Il pretense Of eli
foreement and allows the traffic Ia 20
on, the Republican party in Maine Is
dead. after the election OF feii-as Il
ought 10 be.
The last desperate play OF Democrat
ic leaders and their deceivins ne#spa-
Der tools, is to convince enough faint
hearted Republican officials Of What
the people don't want II discredii
tine entire administration.
The people OF Maine WANT the rrohib-
itory law enforced to the letter. Tae
people of this State, If they could vote
today, would instruct the courts of this
State to make sentences six mouths
in Jail for first onense, and no appeal.
They would add to that a fine so heavy
that all profit would be wiped out of
the business if only one conviction Il
year were possible.
Let's get away from this farce and
ENFORCE the law. at any cost, then
if the people do not like it, let them
repeal the law. 1t cannot be monkeyed
With. any longer.
Tins enforcing with discretion,
which is advocated by the PattanGall
organ, means graft and official collus-
ion with criminals. Let's have done
with it.
THIS attempt to present the opinion
of the rai,bie, which rum newspapers
represent, as the sentiment of the
people" of Maine, is played out. Not
even the voters make up Names pee
ple'-do not longer present that fall
lacy The people" Of Maine are Its
citizens and the women of this state
have right to a voice in putting do"n
;he monster that causes them more
broken hearts than all pesttlenee and
disaster combined.
A majority Of the voters of Malne
are now actively opposed to the hquor
traffic, and with them are at least nine
leHtHS Oh lile duult NOiiicii VI .itN 'oei'Nt
Then, Mr.. Rum Promoter, If you have
ANY hope of higher life beyond,
please discontinue this idiotic declara-
ton that "the people of Maine want
BOOZE because you and your crowd
want it,
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a City on the Water.
The rivers flowing through Canton,