Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-01-16

stroyed about two-thirds of the corn
crop, causing an immense financial loss, .
yet the Governor of the State declares
that Kansas needs no pity. for the state ,
is well prepared for such a situation, ,
having more than s200,o00o00 on deposf
in state and national banks. Kansas
people decided 80 years ago that it was ,
better to deposit money in the bank than
to deposit in the tills of the liquor max
ers and liquor sellers.
Congressman Webb of North Carolina i
says: About IL years ago l looked out
on a section of my state and saw So gov, I
eminent distilleries and saloons scat !
tered throughout the length and breadth :
of the district. There were only two OF !
three factories, giving employment to
200 or 800 people. There We're few
churches and few. school houses TIVE
years ago. about 10 years after the peo- {
pie had adopted statewide prohibition.
found in this same section magnificent
churches. fine school houses, and instead
of 3S distilleries, there We're 43 of the ,
largest cotton factories of the United {
States
If prohibition is good for the states !
have referred to. and for other prohibit ;
will be good for all states and for thsI
United States.
Relation of Liquor Trade to White
Slave Trade. y
The close connection between the I'D
uor traffic and the white slave traffic is
causing an arrest of thought regarding
the evil of the liquor traffic in the hearts
of many who heretofore have taken lit
~ T.
ner, chairman of the Chicago Vice Com
mission. declares that the saloon is the
greatest supporter that exists of the SOL
cial evil and the house of prostitution. /
Jane Adams declares that strong drink
is the Indispensable vehicle of the bust /
ness transacted by the white slave trad !
ers, and says that without it's use this
trade could not long continue.
Liquor Traffic to be Destroyed.
Our belief that national constitutional
prohibition will be the law of our land
within a decade is based on such facts
as / have above stated. Nine sovereign
states containing LEO of the population
of the country, now have statewide pro-
hibition of the manufacture and sale or
intoxicating liquors. Upwards of 30,0o0,
600 people of other states live in localities,
which have outlawed liquor selling, and
7-10 of the territory of the country is free
from the licensed saloon. Not very long
ago the lottery system seemed securely !
intrenched in our land. 1t was wrong, it
had to go. Not very long African slav1
cry existed in our nation. Many said 1t {
never could be uprooted, but it was
wrong and it had TO go, and the entirep
nation rejoices that it did go, and the
South is more prosperous than it could be
with slavery. Even SO, some glad day
will the states in which today is en-
trenched the liquor system. rejoice that
it has been abolished Science, philan-H
thropy reform, religion and the business
World are testifying against the liquor
traffic. In the light of all this we can
see prohibition sentiment looming up all
the way from Mt. Kineo in the East TOD
Mt. Shasta in the West. from the pine
forests in the North to the palmetto
groves of the South. We verify believed
that the amendment for national con-
stitutional prohibition is destined to pre-
vail and that by 1920, the United States
flag will float over a nation redeemed
from the Notwithstanding, Misunderstanding
| curse of the legalized liquor traffic