Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1921-09-23


and distillery have been destroyed
the saloon must die. To paraphrase
the words of Moore:
When the still dies the saloon that
grew out of it's stem must perish too.
Tomorrow there will come upon
the stage of action, TO do the work of
the nation a generation of young
men with clear brain, steady hands,
undimmed eyes and uncankered
hearts. Then shall God bless us and
the land shall yield her increase.
Yesterday the church served in
toxinting wine at its communion,
and from its affairs its cIergymen.
deacons and teachers went into the
public place to vote for the existence,
protection and perpetuation of the
shameless saloon. Today the church
that places to the lips of its members
the intoxicating cup is Stunned by
everybody. The clergyman who de-
tends the saloon or advocates its ex-
istence or in any way favors its pro-
lection is looked upon as one who
steals the livery of Heaven to serve
the devil in.
The Church member who prays
for the overthrow of the liquor traf-
fic and then goes to the ballot box
and votes to send to the State Legis-
lature or Congress men who will vote
to weaken or destroy laws that en-
force prohibition will be branded
everywhere as a hypocrite. Tomor-
row the act of voting the liquor traf-
fic into legal life will be considered
one of the monster crimes of the
world.
Yesterday the manufacture and
sale of intoxicants was considered a
great industry, that gave labor to
hundreds of thousands, that furnish
ed a market for millions of bushels
| of corn and rye and grains of the
! farmer, and the fruits of the garden
and the field.
{ Today the people are startled by
this folly, and are surprised beyond
| all measure that they should ever
consider that an industry which adds
nothing to the wealth of the nation.
which produces nothing but drunk
ards, which is a destroyer, which
takes the grains and fruits which
| God gives man as a reward for la
Dor and destroys them as surely as
though thrown in the sea, and from
it brings forth nothing but fearful
harvest of vice. crime, murder, mad
ness and DEATH"
Saloon Not Tolerated
Yesterday the saloon was toleut-
/ ed, licensed and protected, because il
was claimed that it paid vast rev.
enues into the public treasury; that
its license fees paved the streets,
built the walks, made public i'm
| proVementS carried on the expense
of the government, and educated the
children. Today no person of edu-
cation, of culture and moral refine
ment, can be found who will mako
such a groundless claim. Everybody
agrees that every dollar paid by the
liquor traffic into the public treasury
costs the people one hundred, to saw
nothing of the enormous taxation if
creates and, the woe and misery it
brings in its turn. Tomorrow it will
/ be the wonder of the world that men
! were so infatuated with the allure
ments of the saloon as to believe for
moment that a people could pros
| per by a revenue from their own
vices.
/ Yesterday the shameless liruo,
| traffic entered into politics and de-
iiahued OF the great political parties
III this state and nation that they
should nominate candidates pledged
! 10 the interests of the saloon. that
| they would pass laws in the interest
| or vice and crime and immortality
and that they would refuse 10 on.
force laws made in the interest of
! society and the home: and with bra
Zen-faced effrontery proclaimed that
/ no other candidates should no a,oo4
ed ana that if any persons should be
| nominated against the saloons and in
| the interest of temperance, morality
and the home, they would defeat
such candidates at the polls. and
Yesterday it's true and pity it's. Ills
| true, the two great political nartios
IN TINS state and nation bowed in
pase subserviency to the saloons and
stfoVe with each other in vicl,aa
competition as to which sbou1d 60
cure the political support of this in
ierilai traffic. Today an OUTRAGED
| pubic opinion has driven these mar
tles 10 forsake and defy the saloons
! Inc republican party in the north
and the Democratic party in tho
soulh nave pronounced for national
piohipltlon. Between this upper and
| neither milestone the saloon he's banr
ground 10 powder. Tomorrow will
see the complete triumph of national
prohioition. and the saloon will he
put hateful memory.
Yesterday the organized liouor
! faihc said to the candidate for Of
| nee. who desired the honor of renre-
| senting his people in the legislative
Judiclal or executive department of
STATE ana nation. who had an ambi-
! 'ioh 10 De governor of his state or
sit In the Halls of Congress. ,,ris
We'll but you must be nv servant ~,
your ambition can never be satisfied
GU must enact laws in the interest
OF CRIME, vice and immortality. you
must protect me by legislature or T
snail defeat you at the ballot how ,
AND yesterday too often the candi-
date gave and pledged his support to
the saloon and acknowledged that
this shameless traffic was his no,iti :
cal king.
1ooay the candidate who defends
the saloon or stands for the nroteo
tion OF the liquor traffic is doomed to
deteat. Tomorrow there will be no