Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1867-09-06

States, Andrew jackson, James Madison an
John Quincy Adams.
Second. If it is right to discourage the us
OF intoxicating drinks, II IS righ 10 use III
most e6eotuol mode 10 secure the snd, and tha
is by afixing to the traffic in intoxicating be
verages, the stigma of crime. He consider
ed this, too, no longer an open question
Prohibitory legislation has been fairly tried
for twenty years, and the most formidable
effort to overthrow 1t, in Massachusetts,,
though aided by the voice of ex-Gov An
drew (secured it is said by a fee of Sl0,OO0)
and with an expenditure OF over 500, 900
IN the Legislature, failed, with a two-thirds
majority against repeal. lie considered the
name, ''prohibitOry. however, an unfortu-
nate misnomer. The law undertakes to tell
no man what he shall eat or drink, it enters
no mans family, intorlercs with no mans
private habits. Ii is in this like other need
iul laws. The law docs not forbid a man
from taking arsenic. it only says you shall not
sell poison except under certain restrictions
Ii iorbids no man TO cat tainted meat, or to
skin his eat and eat it but when he under
takes to sell diseased or foul meat TO his
neighbors, the law steps in and says "No."
% the Maine law simply says you shall not
sell liquor, or disturb the order of Society by
intoxication. 1t is a wholesome and neccs-
saTy law, and will stand long after We are
gone and our grand children have taken our
places.
ThHd-H IS righ 10 enforce iG,cs ill they
are repealed This law is law of the state.
deliberately adopted, repeatedly affirmed,
sustained by the highest courts. 1t is the
voice OF the People. You may discuss and
doubt its exrediency. or attempt to repeal
1t but while it stands, if you are an honest
man. you will obey it, AMI require all others
to do so. Especially is this incumbent on
public men and officers Of the law. The
audaeity of the man who can put himself up
Tor Office, with the express or implied under
standing that one of the laws be will not
execute, is amazing it is treason against
the people, equalled only by the crime of
jeff Davis.
fo'rh-H IS rigAt 10 entrlisi the erecuiioa
Of the IaioS eHly 10 men tpho are ,oilhng
10 refa'H them. This too needs no argument.
How can the man who breaks the
law be trusted to execute the law ? Thomas
jefferson said the first question he would
ask Of every candidate for Office, was are {
you a temperance man - l.
But the defenders of Temperance and the 9
Law, have foe to meet. Opposed to them
Is an army, whose motive, motto. principle, t
delty, lie Rum the device for whose banner c
should be a hogshead, with a faucet in it v
and the liquor flowing, and the legend upon b
1t " Not Right, but Rum" In it's ranks are F
editors whose pOtations have increased their
bodies and diminished their brains LAWYERS h
who practice at more bars than one; saloon Il
keepers, with stick of candy in the front i.
gindOw, and barrel Of whskey in the eel e.
ar ; Patrick and Michael who have brought II
cross the water their warm hearts and b.
tout muscles and fondncss for poteen all OF
he bullies, pimps, blacklegs and rascals Il
md with them more respectable men, who ',
,annot throw of party shacklcs, and timid +,
men who follow their leaders wherever they n
%. n
The contest is between Liberty protected IL
y law, and License seofing at law and it 81
: yet to rage in every state. II defeat is m
,ossible, still defeat on right platform is CT
,etter than success on wrong one, Bot ty
here is no reason to be discouraged. Right Il
viii triumph. The speaker closed with ap- to
lying, with q change OF words, to the tenn ii
erance issue, the prediction of Wendell n,
'hillips uttered many years ago in reference 81
0 Freedom and Slavery. &" In spite of Il
eeming defeat, let Right and Rum grapple
IT them come to the closest hug, and Right F
7ill have him in an instant" OF
The address was a very effective one SC
ear, bold, pungent, eloquent, and it was HI
eceived with hearty applause. 5
The line Of rem ark Of the other gentle Il
ien who followed, is perhaps sufficiently in :c
icated in the Secretary's report Of the ii
nee ting. The resolutions adopted are calm, IN
lear and strong, and form platform which d.
must commend itself to all true temperance p
nen. The meeting was on the whole
cry successful one, well calculated TO rouse F
interest and incite effort in the Temperance NJ
alse, and we trust it will he followed by c
,thers still more effective and more largely h
attended. >,