Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-05-14
Thursday, May IA, 1914.
When Rosues Fall Out.

q surprising question. 1t speaks elo-
quently of the end of whole booze
business. We have for three years
been constantly pointing out the in
human methods of the traffic and the
certain fate to befall it when the peo-
pie of this country become fully alive
to the way they are being robbed and
murdered in cold blood in the name OF
personal liberty" But we have
seen no more remarkable evidence of
the rapid approach of the end than in
some of the very recent utterances of
the trade itself. We have frequently
quoted from the Wine and Spirit cir
culars and from the literature of the
whiskey trust. Now we have this
from the Brewers Journal:
"The franchise will be extended to
all women in this country--some day.
There is little doubt about that. With
in few years most of our large and
industrialIy developing states will
grant the vote to the opposite sex, and
where will the brewing industry be
then, if it is still considered to be in
alliance with the distillers ana
whiskey selling saloons?"
That may be taken as the first real
break between great selfish interests,
each determined to reap riches from
theswoes which it creates for man
kind. Neither cares for your home,
your son. your daughter. or your life.
Either will be ruthlessly snuffed out
for the dollars there are in 1t.
When thieves fall out, then human
ity has a chance of peace. When
wholesale murderers begin calling
each other names then may honest
men hope for their obliteration. The
Brewers Journal continues:
1.-THE interests of the brewing in
dustry demand a clean and resolute
separation from the interests of the
distlling industry. This separation
must be effected at once, unless the
brewing industry shall suffer with
those whom an ever growing number
of voters are determined to eliminate
from our social and economic fabric"
The Brewers Journal acknowledges
that ''the saloon has become an eye
sore to hundreds of thousands of
Americans" and it concludes that,
therefore, the saloon must go; that the
brewing trade has no right to assist in
it's own destruction by continuing a
detrimental alliance. 1t offers this
program of reconstruction:
at will be comparatively easy to
convince the women voters that beer
and light wines are not detrimental to
those accustomed to consuming them.
The rapid development of the bottlins
trade shows that beer is welcome ad-
junot to the family meal, and women
themselves enjoy taking glass Of
beer in their own homes"
FltEduyB OQI iCddCio Will IOtiSCs ehAo
great business organization has recog-
nized the inevitable in the certainly
coming and surely moral hand of en-
ligntened womanhood. The brewers
and the distillers have fought it all the
way but find themselves swept aside
by the irresistible wave of progress.
Now it is save himself who cam and
the cunning appeal to woman is made
Women themselves enjoy taking a
glass of beer in their own honest"
How sweet of the beer trust to thus
pat woman's back at the same time
insinuating: "Of course no real woman
would drink the product of the
WHIsKEY TRUST in their own
homes"
The sophistry is being framed to fit
HE new conditions. The beer side OF
booze" demands, in the hope of pro-
longing Its own hell-populating ex-
istence, a divorce from the distilling
end OF the traffic. Let it come and
come soon.
On Tuesday Kennebec county Pro-
gressives held their convention and
some of the speakers INDUCED in
verbal expressions sorrowfully unlike
anything ever heard at Armageddon.
In the same hall on April 9. forty-nine
years from the surrender of Lee at
Appomatox, the Republican party of
Maine pledged itself for national pro-
hibition. Lincoln had prophetically
declared that the next great evil to be
swept away in the march of progress
would be the liquor evil. Within so
years slavery has been abolished. lot
teries wiped out. the cruel live pigeon
shoots and chicken rafies banished,
cock fights and dog lights done away
with. pool selling outlawed and prae-
ticaily destroyed, all sorts of gambling
prohibited and discredited and last but
best OF all. the worst traffic that God
has ever tolerated sees and admits its
own sure end.
L.