Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-04-01

have not been needed. Smiling at the
seemingly impotent efforts of the
anti drink fans" conscious of the
tacit sympathy of the great mass OF
the people, the giant has lain quiet
and prone and allowed the Liliputians
/ to fasten him down by innumerable
| tiny bonds
Further along the same article de-
clares:
| 1T matters not so much whether the
| Webb bill ever really becomes law or
/ not, that is, whether President IaIt
| yetoes il or not and whether the
| limited States Supreme Court ult-
| mateIy sustans or declares it uncon-
| stitutfonal. The greatest blow mas
been struck and struck successfully
1t has been demonstrated that the en-,
emv is in possession of the citadel of
the nation. 1t is no longer open 10
doubt that he controls the votes Oh
congressman and senator's OF the
United States.
Prohibition is no longer local IS
sue. The last stage has been reached.
Prohibition is a national danger
THE next step on the part OF the
enemy will be an attempt TO pass an
amendment to the constitution of the
United states prohibiting the manu-
facturn and sale of alcoholic beNer-
ages throughout the length and,
breadth of the land.
The brewer was wont TO laugh At
this idea, to consider it utterly I'M
nossible. True, there may not be
majority of congressman who really
want it. But the Congressman can
not vote as they wish. They must
vote as the controlling power dlc-
tates.
"And the enemy has shown that he
;s the controlling power IN Washin9-
ton."
It is Just as apparent everywhere
that the American people are arising
against a national peril; that all
branches of the Intoxicating beverage
evil must eventually so, as lotteries
were driven out, as witchcraft idiocy
was outlived and outgrown, as slavery
was swept away by intelligence
progress, morality, growing goodness
in the human mind.
And yet how the ensnared eVii
thrashes about in the tolls and ar
CUES, begs threatens.
Such as the present demonstration
in the Maine Legislature is indicative.
1t is the beginning of the end. the
friends of the drink evil arc Away"
talking about taking the question out
of politics. and yet there is but one
way TO eliminate it from politics, the
very way now in process of develop
ment-the standing together of the
better element of all parties for com
mon good
That will settle the question in time
but the time is coming and Is gaining
impetus with every hour. The en-
envy admits it in more ways than one.
Here follows an example:
In Sundays mail came bitter
yitriolie, abusive, vituperatlNe com
munication from Hon. William H.
Pattangar, addressed to the editor Oh
the Kennebec Journal. 1t was Who'll
W unlike MIR. Pattangalfs usual
bland productions. It's author hae
seized upon a text that would intro
duce his line of defense, as an OBJECT
of fine frenzy. He had proceeded
from an absolutely false STANDPOINT
as 10 the author of his plant, as ne
undoubtedly knew, but his sole ann
seemed to be to bolster a dying cause
bv marshaling all the respec'apiii''
ever connected with it as an excuse LOT
its CONFERENCE.-The booze ciup CURSE
MANY men have been driven from
devotion to wholly Respectable IRA
tarnal orders by the very life OF count
less unrespectable and deSeheraeii7
agencies masquerading under INC
,,,,;so IF fraternal orders, that nave
discredited many others.
we maintain, and know that we no =
the peopie with us, that any Vi s''i'N
| 80, which constantly and openly Nlo-
| lates the law under iimsy 'ec''ie''-
;tv presented by legal members Is ''i7
| worst possible example before 'i'e
,,assas which have not the SAINT
| means of gratifying their thirsts ana
| nnet;tes. An organization which tenas
| 10 peryert respect for law and oieef Us
| a public menace.
| In the case specified by MI fat.an-
| COLL we know that a great many ie-
| ,aotab,e men have allied themselves
with a great fraternai order but theS
| arg not the ones who have dlscreai'e"
| tl,,, order among respectable people,
| and tLey are to be the ones VINO VIII
cave it from its internal enemies at
| t,a crisis which is sure to comei Ana
| +, nav as well come now as later. Let
Mr. Pattangall precipitate it, II ne WILL
in dosperate endeayor to offset OF pe-
little the good work OF Governor
| HaineS.