Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-03-05
Speaking Of "Hypoerisy"

Speaking OF "HyPoeriSy
Down In Maine certain gentlemen are
attempting to make the good people OF
the state believe that they are doing
something for prohibition by urging
law that prohibits newspapers publish
ed outside the State from circulating
within tho State II they carry ANY IL
Quor advertisements. At the same
time these hypocrtical gentlemen are
opposing the Bone-Dry law by which
the importation Of liquor from outside
the State would be prohibited.
Imagine the state Of hypocrisy which
the minds Of these alleged prohibition
lists have reached that permits them
to advocate the prohibition Of liquor
ADVERTISEMENT from outside the
State and yet allows the LIQUOR IT.
SELF to come from outside the State.!
The AMERICAN ventured to pro-
test against it end was Immediately at
tackled by as fine lot Of pretenders
as ever canted.
To listen to these gentlemen, one
would think that the voluntary rejec-
ton Of more than $50, 900 of advertis-
iny income every year, which is the
AMERICANS contribution to the
cause Of public sobriety and health and
morals was quite a heinous offense.
The above is from double column
editorial in Saturdays Boston Amer
ican. All the familiar sophistry of the
liquor traffic is embodied in the few
sentences above quoted. And nowhere
in the editorial from which 1t is TAX
en- is found admission of the rights Of
the other side. Ir brief, every opponent
Of the methods of the liquor interests
in promotion Of their traffic is class
ed as hyporcite and pretender And
more than all that, in the excerpt here
reproduced are several false state
ments.
In the first place the opposition to
the so-called bone dry" law is not
because of what it might accomplish,
If enacted into law, in stopping the i'm
portation of liquors into the State, but
because the most active opponents of
prohibition in the past see in it a hope
of defeating executive control over null
fiy ans ShViAiltS touHiy dltOIHtyS
In fact. the bore-dry bill is believed to
have been fathered by the Boston
American for just that purpose
AS to the shutting out of Maine any
newspaper carrying ANY liquor ad-
vertising, can the American give any
Just reason for giving out Of State pa
pers the financial advantage over
Maine papers, of liquor advertising?
The American claims that it's sole pur-
pose in opposing the advertising pro-
vision is the great loss of revenue; is
the American entitled to any priv
ileges which Names own papers are
denied? Why does the American think
Maine papers should be thus handi-
capped in the struggle for existence?
T. Maine is to he strewn with the bids
for more drunkards why should not
Maine papers have a share of the rev.
crue?
THE American pretends to believe
that these "hypocritical gentlemen"
who oppose it's plans for promoting the
booze industry in Maine, want the ad-
vertising shut out but want the LIQUOR
Let in. That assumption is falsehood,
ana nothing else. The honest prohibi-
florists of Maine desire to dispose of
the problem of what boozers they have
as rapidly and gracefully as possible,
but they are determined that neither
the Boston American nor any other
tool Of the booze interests shall pro.
mole another crop of booze patrons.
And. finally. the moral forces of this
State are determined to place in the
hands of the Governor such effective
means for dealing with multiplying Off
Gals as shall make every executive
responsible for such conditions as seen
In the Democratic administration that
erued with 1916. The sudden solicitude
fOr prohibition of notorious co-work-
ers with the out of State liquor inter-
ests deceives no one.