Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-10-01
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there were 500 distilleries producing
annually approximately 26S,000,000
gallons of distilled spirits, now there
are none.
These teeth have cut the con-
sumption of alcoholics in the United
States by seventy-f1ve percent. They
have cut the approximate number OF
drinkers to five percent of those
drinking before National prohibition
They have cut the doctors bills of
the Nation giving the Nation the
cleanest bill of health In its history.
National death rate has been lower
ed and longevity has increased 3
years per person. These teeth have
cut the number Of alcoholics in our
insane asylums by two-thirds-in
our Augusta hospital but two were
admitted in 1928 due to alcoholic in
sanity. These teeth have cut the
number cared for in our charitable
and corrective institutions. They
have cut the number Of arrests for
drunkenness by a half million in
spite of increased severity on the
part of most police departments, &C
cording to well known criminal
statisticians.
Offences against chastity have
been cut. Total prison population
and deaths from alcoholism. the lat
ter more than cut in two in the
State Of Mass; aims house de-
tendencies cut to q number the
smallest in the history Of the Nation.
% oh L
dren and drunken mothers of de-
pendent children cut to minimum
or cut out entirely in some states.
These teeth have cut the pene-
tertiary populati ton by 5000 the past
year, cut out drink cures to one for
every ten that prospered under
former conditions. or before this
STRIPPING of National prohibition was
born. Industrial accidents have cut
to 100000 fewer per year. than when
drink made men clumsy. Yes. Ma
tional prohibition has teeth and they
CUT.
Years ago" said Judge E. Y.
Webb, of North Carolina, Il stood on
historic Kings Mountain and saw
the smoke of SO government dis
tilleries. l saw no macadamized
roads, scarcely a school house. /
saw saloons everywhere. There were
only two or three factories, giving
employment to two or three hundred
people. Some years after the people
had driven out this curse. l stood in
the same place. l, found macadam-
lied roads in almost every part of
the county. saw magnificent
churches of almost every denomina-
ton. l found school houses in every
iCfr IF
not the smoke of single distillery.
but instead l saw the smoke Of
forty-three Of the largest cotton
factories in the United States"
The fifth year finds prohibition
stronger than ever. Every change in
the law has strengthened it. Pros
perity is greater, health is higher,
education more accessible. homes
more, happy, wealth more abundant,
industry stimulated and poverty de-
creased.
Do 1 hear some one say prohibit
ton is not a success? Do / read this
in some SO called popular magazine :?
Just what conditions might we eX-
pect to follow the success or failure
of great reform, the application of
outstanding legislation? Is not the
effect upon the lives, prosperity and
happiness of the people of the State
and Nation the true index?
In face Of these sustained facts,
how can we accept what the enemies
of the law are trying to foister upon
the reading public?
Prohibition has saved the Nation
s74,000,0Oo once spent to relieve
drink-cursed poverty. Instead of
beer the people are buying bonds.
while the population has increased
149c bank deposits have increased
1887 OF S1S0.000,000. one in five are
security holders. The attendance at
school has increased under prohibi-
ton until 26,000,000 boys and girls
are attending our schools. Daily
three million new members unite
with the Church of God.
A British economist estimated the
ratio between productiveness of the
worker in dry America and beer
drinking Britain as that between
$3.50 and $500 or three to one
ratio. A writer in the English Brew
ering trade asserts that seven Ameri-
can workers are equal to ten in Eng
land.
We regret that high dignitary in
great branch Of the Church of God
has sent to an English publication
that which will give real, qualification
to the liquor interests inside and out
side the United States. 1t is true, as
Bishop Anderson said, that prohibit
ton has emptied jails, and while hos
pital statistics do not show an in
crease in patients committed for
those diseases which are incident to
the use of alcoholics. it is equally
true that sufferers in our hospitals
from poisonous stuff purveyed in
spite of the law" are evident law
breakers, pure and simple. They
have defied the Constitution of the
United States; they have DETAINED the
flag of their country: they have de-
fed the precepts of the God of Hosts
and have only brought upon them
selves just retribution.
Secretary Wilbur of the Navy, re-
Gently said: ITO fight law enforce
ment is to fight government, and no
true patriot can persistently and pur-
posely violate the law
Some men think the Volstead act
and the Eighteenth Amendment a
joke. but they are laughing at the
Stars and Stripes
Prohibitions effect upon labor.
Richard It. Jones. director of the U.
5. Employment Service, tells us that
Labor is more stabilized in America