Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-04-16
ONLY 100000 Bushels!

The first fruit of our demand that
grains now being converted into in
toxicants in breweries and distilleries
be conserved for food, is a letter from
the National Model License League"
The mouthpiece that speaks for all the
any attempt to "mislead the govern
ment" at this time is approximate
treason" We are also told that the
amount Of grain used by distillers
and brewers has been greatly exag-
gerated in reports of the past.
OF course the National Model Lii
on committing approximate treason!
The National Model License League
certainly would not lie, for lying is as
bad as stealing the honor of ones
neighbours son or daughter. Lying is
almost as bad as selling booze to boys
knowing that it means their ruin and
broken hearts for their parents. Ly-
ing is almost as bad as providing the
poison that makes a fool a fiend who
starves his children, beats his wife,
and throttles his mother.
And surely no one connected with
tho booze traffic would lie, especially
the National Model License League"
So, then. we must accept the state
ment of the secretary of this rum
trust mouthpiece that ONLY $4,000, 900
bushels of food grains are converted
into intoxicating liquors in his coun-
try every year.
only" IS millions of bushels of
grain. No quite a bushel each for
every man, woman and child in
America!
ONLY" So millions of bushels of
food grains a thousand times worse
h burned up or dumped into a bot
tomless pit. We had thought the
amount greater-and we think so still,
in spite of the assurance of an or
ganization that does nothing worse
thar murder innocents in all stages
from the unborn to the patriarch.
ONLY" IS million bushels Of food
grains. only" the product of $780,
600 acres. for ar average crop of an
average year. Can the people of his
country raise that amount in their
backyard gardens?
ONLY" 5000, 900 bushels Of grain.
From the U. S. Department of the
Interior we ave this Saturday
morning received the following letter.:
The White House, April 10, 1917
TO the Farmers Of the Country:
At tho present moment it is our
plain duty to take adequate steps
that not only our own people be
fed, but that we may, il possible,
answer the call for food Of other
nations now at war. In this great.
est Of human needs ! feel that the
American farmer will do his part
to the uttermost.
BY planting and increasing his
production in every way possible,
every farmer will perform a labor
Of patriotism for which he will DO
recognized a. . soldier Of the COM
"t'oSoVy . 00OiIS NO Ou0IO " III
food supply Of the people.
(sisned) WOODROW WILSON.
Every farmer SHOULD be a patriot
but every booze maker and every
rum seller MAY be as much of a devil
as he likes!
The farmer SHOULD increase his
hours and his efforts for the sake of
his country and for humanity; SHALL
the greed which the National Model
License League serves be permitted
to waste ONLY" IS million bushels Of
food stuff?
The %aristocratic unions of the rail-
ways. defiant of Congress and the U.
S. Supreme Court, may work only
eight hours a day, but the farmer is
requested, urged, expected. to extend
himself even beyond his 16 hours a day
as the President puts it Ito the ut
termost"-while the brewers and dis
tillers WASTE "only"85 900, 900 bush
els of food grain a year, and reduce
the brain inc Drawn efficiency of the
entire nation IS per cent in accom-
plishing that waste of grain.
IL the farmers of the country are to
accept the sincerity of the govern
ment, then the government must
tend itself Ito the uttermost" to
SAVE IS million bushels of food
grains.