Show MAINE The Result Forty-Six Years What a sick gang the citizens of Maine must be to require all of the following wet goods for medicinal purposes during 1910 and this does not include the Patent or the mail orders by doctors and drug A press dispatch from states that the requirements of the State Liquor Agency for 1910 is as Fifteen hundred gallons of half pints and 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 half pints and 25 gallons of Jamacia gallons of half and gallons of brandy pints and 25 cases of Three cases of California port and angelica cases of 25 cases of 25 cases of 5 cases of After 46 years of rigid hard the vilest of all is sold in with no Hard cider has started more boys to drunkenness than any other one Maine has over miles of sea coast where whisky and beer from other states can be easily landed without her enormous mail order business through which boys and drunkards can unrestrained obtain with her center of population near the New Hampshire and Massachusetts where can be-so easily Maine probably has more drinking and drunkards and less revenue than any other of New who has spent a lifetime in suppressing vice and a man who has studied the temperance and prohibition sums up the I question in m New York Journal as will never come from at tempts ot minority to coerce a majority or the temperate man is the man controls not the man who is controlled by somebody nm the man compelled by a law making minority to do what he to years the world has grown more drunkenness has gradually Less than two hundred years drunkenness was not only but rather among tha the directors or Now it is tolerated and only pitied in the wonderful change for the prohibition has had nothing whatever to the prohibition suffers from from the effects of poisonous highly charged with more perhaps than any other state in the toe prohibition is cursed a body of secret Because open of mild beverages is prohibited by and whisky drinking is made compulsive and Prohibition must have that effect is to say anything 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 now tries to encourage temperance by force 9 and prohibition is so was man who once tried to make people religious by the rack and thumbscrew and other violent |