Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1916-06-09
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events. New inventions have supplant-
ed old ideas. and history has been
made and re-made. Today, half the
world is engaged in a sanguinary con-
fict, kings and emperors are playing
the roles of historians and map-mak-
ers while in the theatre Of war, while
in a special box, the war-god watches
with a leering countenance.
But not only is there bloody war
going on in a part of the world, but in
all the world there is another revo-
luton, bloodless to be sure, but none
the less intense, testing whether or
not we must continue to struggle in
the tentacles of the octopus Of intern
rerance. Hitherto, the combat has been
unsuccessful, this for many reasons.
First, people have tried to persuade
themselves that it does not hurt them
to drink; second, because of the sue
cessfully financed operations of the
associated liquor traffickers, and third,
because we have not attacked the is
sue squarely. The only way to meet
the problem successfully is by wide.
spread national prohibition.
Mr.. LaBelle then went on to snow
how England had been unsuccessful in
dealing with the problem because she
did not eradicate it entirely, and
showed how Russia had become more
efficient because of the national prohi-
bition that they had adopted.
He quoted various statistics show
ing how the use of alcohol destroyed
mans efficiency, detailing the tests APP
Piled to Swiss soldiers and American
linotypers.
He attacked several Of the argu-
ments advanced by the liquor sellers.
regarding personal liberty and employ
ment, and closed with a stirring APP
peal for the people to rise and join
the new crusade, the crusade against
alcohol.
1.-THE Way QUINN. Rollins
Mr.. Rollins chose for his subject,
This Way Out" and his treating Of
the topic of universal interest was OF
an excellent type and showed great
skill and science in his method Of de-
livery and in his easy manner and
style. Mr. Rollins said in part:
John Barleycorn has been arraigned
at the bar of scientific intelligence.
tried, and found guilty. Sentence IS
now to be passed. The sentence is ex-
tinction.
There is not one point in his favor
the liquor trade is inexcusable and I'M
natural. The system Of licensing it is
wasting at the bunghole and saving
at the spigot" with a vengeance. Even
the claim that the saloon fills So
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liability to vice."
| Then the State needs to protect the
purity of its morals by driving this foe
| from the face of the earth. We must
educate; we must agitate, and then we
| must exterminate! Regulation is worse
| than useless, recognizing as it does the
legitimacy of the trade and making the
| State a partner in debauching it's own
| citizen High license is truly high lie
without any sense" Besides the mod
| ern saloon with all its rottenness is the
| the product of more than 270 years of
such regulation.
Partial prohibition must be pitifully
inadequate; to try to drain one corner
| of a swamp without first damming out
| the waters Of the rest is a well-night
| hopeless task! Yet the comparative pro-
| duction of fermented liquors in prohi-
bition near-prohibition. near-license
| and license states shows a large increase
Of production and accordingly consump.
| ton in wetter and wetter states. Fig
ures vouched for by Gov. Capper OF
Kansas show that prohibition can pro.
| hibit.
But the final step is determination
not segregation: nothing less than Con.
| stitutional Prohibition nationwide will
satisfys Only that can dry up the whole
| country like great blotter. The ma
ton has the right to protect itself
! if voted favorably, the government
would have the power to pass such ar
amendment; and it is the bounden duty
of the state to remove tho environment
the saloons provide.
National Prohibition means the law
and the law enforced. China could ban.
ish opium; Russia. vodka; and the Unit.
| ed States can drive out this nefarious
| traffic. And we must. We must kill-or
| be killed.