Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-11-04
A Comparison of Facts.

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ALWAYS enforced, 1t is only pro-
hibitory law that furnishes Illicit
shops and dives where the laws re-
strictions are ignored or boldly defied!
Out in Vermont. the liquor interests
and their tools made those assertions
SO plausible and insistent that rum
trust law was embraced a few years
ago, and consumption of intoxicants
largely increased as expected. But
tvermont's licensed rumsellers can not
accommodate all the boozers encour-
aged in their folly by the states
partnership in the traffic, so the un-
licensed dives and hell-holes nestle IN
the dark corners of license towns as
well as in local option towns that vote
dry" and even have the audicity to
masquerade in respectable appearing
places, and by secret advertising, work
up patronage precisely as it is done
in Maine and Kansas, and everywhere
under license or prohibition alike. The
only difference that has ever been
found is the undeniable condition in
license states of the state partnership
places in addition to the Illegal places,
and the state by its participation IN
and countenance of the business, en-
courages an increase in boozing that
patronizes them all
Was the Bisbee drug store at Bristol,
VT, that has just poisoned score Or
more of men, II of whom have already
died, licensed place?
We do not know; it would be inter-
censed place then the illegal places in
license states are more dangerous than
ever claimed in the worst that has
been said by the rum press of pro-
hibition territory. If it was a Ii
censed saloon then no more need be
said of the system.
If a case parallel to the latest in
Vermont had been recorded in pro-
hibition Maine, every rum service
publication from the rum advertising
post card and the Biddeford Record
insult, up to the Louisville Courier
Journal would have kept it before the
people of the country for months as
an indictment against prohibition.
Twelve men killed by prohibition!n
What delightful morsel that would
have been for the rum trust publish
ers.
AS another evidence that the same
conditions exist under license law as
the liquor interests charge always fol-
low the adoption of prohibition, U. s.
revenue agents (Uncle Sans spies)
have just unearthed a complete illicit
whiskey plant in the heart of PhiIa-
deiphia. The Philadelphia Record
reports 1t In part as follows:
Complaints made by wholesale LIQUOR
dealers who asserted that they were
unable to compete in price with the
VI NAi AiltNil Still operating IN
the city, furnished Federal agents with
Information which led TO raid YES
terday on the alleged moonshine nlant
on Sixth street above York. Two men
were arrested.
According to the revenue agents the
defendants had metal-lined suitcases
which had capacity of about 9 GAL
Ions each. Carrying these cases fIIad
with Illicit liquor, they made the
rounds of saloons and retailed the
whisky at 80 cents a gallon. The
revenue tax on whisky is s1.1o a GAL
Ion, and when wholesale liquor men
learned of the cut rate price they corr.
planned.
Uncle Sam will not tolerate CONNIE.
tition in his business Of DESTROYING
men, degrading women and demoraIiz-
ing homes.
Russia has suddenly and peremptor-
lily gone sober because the government
needed real men instead of weakened
dazed. benumbed product of the boozt
vender. Russia had to cut Off foul
hundred million dollars IN revenue
from the bsazetbusiness-apd right il