Show WHY MAINE WENT The Democratic party has al-i been opposed to any law that restricts the personal liberty of an It has always been opposed to prohibition for that- ence and No Class Legislation has always been their motto since the days of Thomas Jefferson and The state of Maine has been under Republican and rule for forty-six Prohibition did not personal liberty was and a special few who stood next to the state liquor had they The people got of it last and turned the tide against their so-called prohibition and the party favoring The following list shows the amount of whisky and other- intoxicants the special few in Maine required for and this does not include patent mail drug stores and The official report says that the requirements of the State Liquor Agency for 1910 is as Fifteen hundred gallons of half pints gallons of rye proof and suitable for medicinal half pints and 25 gallons of rye and gallons of malt gallons of old suitable for medicinal v half pints and 25 gallons' of Jamaica gallons of half pints and gallons of pints and 25 cases of Three cases of California port and Angelica cases of 25 cases of 25 of and 5 cases of After forty-six years of rigid hard the vilest of all is sold in Maine with no Hard cider has started more boys to drunkenness than any other one Maine has over miles of sea where whisky and beer from other states can be easily landed without With her enormous mail order through which boys and drunkards can unrestrained obtain with her center of population near the New Hampshire and Massachusetts where intoxicants can be so easily Maine probably has more drinking and drunkards and less revenue than any other Parkhurst of New who has spent a in suppressing vice and a man who has studied the temperance and prohibition sums up the question in the New York Journal as will never come from from the attempts of a minority to a majority of the truly temperate man is man who controls not the man who is controlled by somebody not the man compelled by a law making minority to do what he ought to many years the world has grown gradually more drunkenness has gradually Less than two hundred years drunkenness was not only but rather admired among the greatest the rectors of Now it tolerated and only pitied in the this change for the better prohibition has had nothing whatever to the prohibition suffers from from the of poisonous highly charged with more perhaps than any other state in the the prohibition is cursed with a great body of secret Because open drinking of mild beverages is prohibited by and whisky drinking is made compulsive and Prohibition must have that effect is painful to say anything that might offend or discourage the earnest There are no better men or women living than those sincerely trying to help their fellow creatures and to discourage excessive if the man who tries to encourage temperance by force and prohibition is so was the man who once tried to make people religious by the rack and thumbscrew and other violent |