Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1916-10-05
Liquor Advertising in the Mails.

Four-fifths OF all the liquor ship
ments going into the state of Georgia
at the present time are consigned to
negroes. the class most needing pro-
lection against the exploitation Of the
distillers and brewers. Orders are Sc
cured by flooding the mails with liquor
advertisements and order blanks. In
spite Of the most strenuous efforts of
the liquor trade, however, the liquor
shipments into Georgia have been cut
down 80 per cent. in the past six
Observation-Disclosures Board Of Temper
ance.
1t is difficult and will be. until the
Federal government dissolves partner
hip with rum sellers. for states to en-
traffic.
The will Of a majority OF the voters
of Maine-an overwhelming majority
OF the citizens of Maine-is outraged
hourly by the government Of the Uni
ted States.
Maine and Georgia people. and citi-
zens OF other states vote to protect
their homes from the liquor evil, bu,
the rum makers and sellers bride
Uncle Sam to violate the will and
rights of states by permitting the mails
to he loaded with the offensive Itera-
ture and advertising of booze dealers
No home is safe from it, If the chill
dren Of the pastor are sent to the let
Ter box for mail they are confronted by
the slarins bargains" or holiday Of
fers" "Christmas Cheer" or Fourth
Of July Joy" inducements presented by
wholesale and retail booze sellers.
Lotteries were prohibited from the
mails because people fooled away their
hard earned money on chance.
The liquor curse is not barred from
the mails even though the people
waste two thousand million dollars a
year on it, in the United States alone
do you know why?
The reason that the liquor trade is
buy its POISON, is because there is so
much money in the business of robbing
men of intelligence and decency that
even the government Of this great
free" nation can be bribed to help
keep up the traffic
The Los Angeles Tribune calls at
tention to the fact that the government
always closes saloons on election day.
1T takes no stock in the moderate
drinking theory, rejecting the sugges-
ton that a few glasses of liquor will
ret hurt" says the Tribune 1T will
10: permit its own affairs TO be decided
BIZ brains added by liquor. Why not
close saloons every day and protect
the homes as we'll as the government? >"
The answer is; Because we are still
electing knaves and towards to Con-
gress.
4 countrywide howl is made over
the accomplishment Of Congress in
saving childhood from labor by pro-
hibiting childmade products from in
terstate traffic Yet these political
hypocrites dare not put a stop to the
interstate traffic that robs children OF
the comforts of life, of chance for
education, of safe ana honorable en-
vironment, of love and care, of fathers
and mothers. of self respect and hope,
of all that a high minded, honorabl
human being holds dear il earthly
life
Congress has closed the avenues of
interstate trade to the products of child
labor. but it cannot prevent the send
ing OF the most damnable literature
ever conceived into the hands of every
child in the country, and worse-into
the hands of the fathers and brothers
Of the children.