Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-07-29
Booze's Back to the Wall.

Saws the Brewers Journal for July:
Above everything else the efforts of
having petitions against nation wide
prohibition signed by many more mil
lions must not be permitted to relax.
When Congress assemblies again in
December it must be overwhelmed
with protests, resolutions, letters and
petitions. Millions of pieces of en-
tightening literature must be dis
tributed."
And this "enlightening literature"
will tell you how to evade and violate
the law, how to indulge your per
sonal liberty" and buy the goods of the
rum trust, how to increase the de-
mand for booze; for that is what this
liquor interests campaign is-ad
vertising for drinkers. The Los An
geles Tribune puts in compact form
the whole reason why the liquor bust
ness should be relentlessly destroyed
in every branch and with every selfish
adherent. 1t says:
1T was for the protection of the
! homes of our city and of Southern
California that the Tribune and the
Express adopted the policy of refus-
ing liquor advertisements. They Will
not permit their columns to be used
for the injury of the home or the dis
turbance of society. The same
principle that moved them to refuse
the highly profitable liquor advertise
ment moves their hostility toward the
saloon which they regard as an evil
institution which does not possess a
single redeeming trait"
The LIQUOR interests are fighting for
life with their backs to the wall, hop
ing to postpone the day and to grind
few more millions out of the bodies
and souls of humanity. No tactics
are too disreputatble for them, from
| lying and stealing to murder and
in mems rights to do as they wish re-
CARELESS of the rights of others and the
purpose of human progress.
Robinson Crusoe could exercise alb
solute individual rights because he
was the entire population. His was
personal liberty" Behind this con-
slant battle for the personal liberty"
of their customers the booze makers
and sellers stoop to lowest trickery.
Here is one of their "enlightening"
methods, told by the Kansas City
Gazette Times:
why the liquor interests must have
a candidate for governor in Kansas
this year is easy of explanation. There
is prohibition fight on this year in a
half dozen or more states. Virginia,
Ohio, California, oregon and Washing
ton are some of the states where the
LIQUOR interest has its back against the
wall and is fighting for life. Kansas
is the great example used In all these
states to show the great benefits that
have come from prohibition. There
must be some answer to the argument
from Kansas. With resubmission
candidate in the field in Kansas the
orators for the liquor interests can de-
clare that the people of Kansas are so
disguised with prohibition that they
have risen irrespective of party to
elect a man governor who will wipe
saloon on every street corner The
interests had to have candidate and
of course could put up literally for a
campaign fund. This interest knows
that the Billiard vote in Kansas will
be small but his candidacy serves It's
| purpose in the states where there is
liquor fight"
| Carlyle said:
mo man Expresses thee. o free and
Independent franchiser! but does not
this stupid pewter pot Cypress thee?
| No son of Adam can bid thee come
or CO. but this absurd pot of heavy
wet can and does.
| Thou are the thrall not of Cedric
the Saxon, but of thine own brutal ap-
petites, and this accursed dish of
liquor.
And thou pratest of thy liberty,
thou entire blockhead!"