Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-01-17

/ OF the community as tte uiNCt ~
kitchen bar-room. the tenement saloon,
| the guzzling of manufactured oooIe III
! toilet rooms and Railways. the booze
tablets and the smuggling OF booze INTO 10
jails and madhouses that obtains unoer
the Haines-brand of prohibition.
1t is time. that Maine put herself IN IN
line with other New England s,ad states tate on on
Names Liquor Promoting Trio.
oh, these righteous, God-fearing,
light-spreading, benefactors of humani-
ty, the licensed booze sellers! Indeed
they ARE located in well defined
places" for no business in the world
better knows the value of advertising.
The choicest well defined place" is
near a school house where they can
| accustom the little children to the
booze traffie-"well defined places" on
| the business streets of cities that are
engaged in the rum business, with
raised curtains" and all kinds of in
toxicants in alluring array for the man
with a thirst and the boy with an over
whelming desire to be a man."
Certainly, the licensed saloon is in a
| well defined place." every time. That
| is the big part of the business They
are willing to pay fine price to get
Their The better defined the place,
the higher the price to get 1t. The
license buyer wants to get as much In
sight of the public as possible. because
he has nc shame, no human heart, no
care for the woe he causes, and he
city. state and federal governments are
in business with him-robbing homes
of their heads. children of fathers and
mothers, and men and industries of
character and intelligence. And these
governments are in the business of sell
ing human souls and bodies because
they need the revenue
Such organs as the Waterville Senti-
mel, Portland Argus and Biddeford
Record rejoice in this traffic and en-
courage it. They spur the lowest and
most hideous law breakers on to new
endeavors in the line of law defying
and violation. With heathenish giee
they shout when some new form of
cussedness is discovered, and claim it
as evidence against the law If only
the people of Maine would throw the
doors wide and let them sell all the
booze they desire, everything would
be lovely. they say
This poor ninnyhammer above quot
ed uses the term, well defined places
where they can be reached by the Of
ficers," because he is either dishonest
or an ignoramus. He either is trying
to deceive his readers because he
thinks they know nothing of license
conditions, or he was never beyond the
borders of Maine himself and depends
on the rum trust for sophistry.
Indeed the officers CAN reach them
and they DO. but never to compel them
to observe decency or obey the law. OF
ficors reach them to drink. and to
hatch the political plots that give them
Jobs and graft, and rake offs from
white slavery, and to buy the votes
that elect such men as Mayor Curley
OF Boston. That is the way officers
reach" licensed saloons.
And, dear reader. We hope you will
just try to imagine rum seller-the
very lowest specimen of humanity that
God has granted existence-just i'm
agine him assisting the officers in
enforcing the law
Just imagine the man who has paid
big sum for the privilege of debauch-
ing the morals of community, defeat
ing his own ends by assisting the
officers" to hold him down to the asin-
inc pretense of restrictions" in rum
trust law.
OF course If patrons of a saloon be-
come riotous and beyond control of
the thugs always at hand, officers are
called and help to beat up the rum
crazed victims. Then it is that the
DOoZc ptQQIci dooioAo thC oihNNiSs eAiat
the officers reach" the saloon.
OF course the place described above
lis not one tenth as dangerous to the
morals of the community as the dive"
because it sells ten times more rum
| and the more the better, according to
| the rum trust and its tools.
These interests make no reply to the
ste tistics from Maine cities where the
! law Is enforced, showing the amazing
reduction in intoxication cases, as well
as a significant falling off in all other
| crimes and misdemeanors.
And this in spite of the great
amount of poison in bottles, tubes and
tablets struggled into the State, as
reported by those working for the
traffic!
Just think of city of $4,000 people
| with not a single case before it's mu-
nicipal court. That was Portland the
| other day, right in the midst of the