Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1839-06-19

ala OF Jug shops produced drunkenness in
all grades and conditions Of life, and every
other vice which the catalogue of mems
woes can enumerate. Fathers, mothers,
brothers and sisters, husbands and wives,
sons and daughtesr, have become drunkards
through their agency. They have caused
TO De pointed at, as 'deSpiSed,' more than
twelfth part of all the men who have ar
rived at the age of IS years. In every evil
form imaginable have they supplied commu
NIFTY with heir progeny. There is not
man living who cannot point out their vic
TINS. This point, the evil effects of dram
drinking have been often treated of
BY able pens, have long been deplored, and
have OF late years been unrelutedly exposed,
as needless, as well as pernicious. But
But what? 1t little moves very many of
our citizens, whether abstemious or moder-
ate, hard or excessive drinkers, to use any
special efforts to divorce this greatest of
notwithstanding unions. Multitudes
still look on with needless indifference, sip
ping little or much and furnishing a sue
cession of recruits to the most debasing
conditions in society. If they are invited
to do something, tie reply is, i am safe'-
do not drink at alp | know the temper
ance cause has done good, but must be ex-
cused, sometimes want dram mvselt'---
| Tho Jandlord will e,orro, trrL
will suffer, &C., while they manifest very
little compassion for the host of sufferers
which this upion produces.
But there are many also whom the AL
mighty has endowed with do something
feelings who cannot remain idle spectators
of the rum-selling business. They will in
sure attention to the subject.
The effects Of dram drinking has always
been bad None deny it! Though multi
tudes excuse il. Shall we then longer le-
galize the sale OF intoxicating drinks and
insure a continuance Of the ills Which will
inevitably follow? Humanity says no.
Appetite says yes. Which shall we fol-
low?
As the laws now are, there are special
difficulties in changing from rum-selline to
temperance taverns, SO also will the aboIi-
ton Of any general custom bring peccnia-
, ry losses upon some persons.
1t is we'll known that the present numb
er Of public houses, are even more than
r proportional to the amount of drans-seI
ing and other custom, and that in the
: country generally about one half of The
: landlords profits comes through rum or 1t,
influence Now, if we withhold from The
t taverners that perquisite which affords then
$ half their profits, surely their expenses O
numbers must be reduced in order to ena
2 bic them to live by the trade. This L
abundantly manifest. Will one landlord b.
willing TO give up innkeeping, and abandon
costly establishment, TO enable another Il
make money? This is unlikely! VIVA
then shall be done This is serious questio
!, as the law now is--still il may be overcome
Where there is but one tavern, the town, c
those who are opposed to having shops
- (Which tend to rear up swearing boys,
le The money of the tradesman take,
And rob the fre-side of Its joys
can compensate the ir.nkeeper for giving u
the profits Of dram-selling; or where thel
: are two taverns, they may close one to Il
:. the other have the whole business; or tt
! town authority may do their duty as la
: down in the first number, and select whit
&c applicant they will recommend TO the cou
~ and which refuse, and thus be instrument
> as far as the laws permit in decreasing 4
no intemperGnce agencies.
,st of the tdoD Ggdin.---Every citizen w
m desires 10 promote temperance, may ha
no duties to perform in this particular. t
- law enacts,---' That the county court NJ
roc grant licenses and in every instance,
-, their discretion
- Thus the people have a perfect right
an petition the court to refuse TO license an g
In. plicant after he has been appreciated, "a
if they think the person nominated unsui
- Bile, or the tavern not needed, it is their
.,s ty to appeal to the court, and the court N
ent do ashley choose, obey the few or the maj
80 1t is TO BE hoped that temperance N
who possess the approaching power, or W
are judges, will put on more moral fortitu
49, and refuse to sustain officially, any usage
"a custom which as men and citizens Il
~, deprecate as pernicious to the well being
NIT society.
~ Can it be consistent for temporal