Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1872-10-24

table broad road to he'll. The shrewdest
strategy. In it "a Daniel has come to
judgment. The old Lucifer of intern
perance, and the ancient Apelyon of
the rum traffic is to be set free from all
prohibitive letters, and kept free from
all Estate Police" regulations. Not that
there is to be no clanking gives about
it. Oh, no! License is to be put
under bonds to keep the peace. An
argus-eyed enactment is to look after all,
who may sell the pestilent stuff. If the
rum demon does damage, as he is sure
to do, his human, licensed owner must
foot all bills. And better than all,
perfect panacea to cure all ills of runs
breeding. Rum is to fight rum-is to
furnish (quod mininae Ueris), "a self-con
stituted and vigilant police" 1t will be
on the dockets of the courts, ever and
anon. ''Bardwell VS.. Shanty." Thief
shall catch thief" hereafter. Cut glass
shall pursue plain glass, and silver
chalice, pewter dipper. What a race
for reform Dog will eat dog, sure
enough! Or the cur will chase and
bite off his own caudal extremity In
other words, and to write in prose,
License" will kill out the unlicensed.
Patrician destroy plebian. And all this,
with no effort at all at any higher, more
stringent and effective anti-rum, moral
sentiment. In fact, temperance men, of
the radical sort, will have reached their
millennium. Their occupation is gone.
Satan isn't dead, he is next to it. His
kingdom is divided, and it is seen fall
ing throughout the commonwealth. All
ears are greeted with it's crash of ami
hilation; while, accompanying, is the
music of treasury accumulation. Satan
is made "to fork over" at last. A grand
collector he will become, If he makes
of humans ''poor devils, he will be COM
PEELED to support them. The "GOrdian
Knot" of pauperism, at least, as to its
support, will be united. Sin will neu
traliZe sin misery cOunterbalance mis-
cry, and perdition will swallow perdi-
ton. Verify the CatholicOn, for the
cure of the rum-traffic and its results,
is discovered. Let the jubilee be sound
ed. To license sin is to cure it, To
turn tophet loose upon earth is to organ
iZe heaven. To legaliZe the greatest evil
is to Danish it. To make it respectable
is to make society spree it out. Surely
the world moves, at least and at last,
here in Vermont.
y
for the licensed, "-ah that's the thing
to bring the old dragonto grief! Surely
he must expire under those ''heavy
bonds" He will. An easy end to a
hard subject. Besides, "license" of this
sort is a "double-ender. 1t assumes a
twO-fold purpose. That is why we hear
of it just now, as all at once so popular,
as such popular expression 1t
Ill, Oh
cause of temperance" OF course it
will, and in two ways-it will give every
rumseller and WOuld-be rumseller, what
he wants-fOr you can't find one in the
State that is not for ''license, with
heavy bonds for the licensed;" and
secondly, it will get rid of that fearful
supplement to the ''prohibitOry law
estate Police"
1t will be capital for tn is latter 1t is
a back fire to save rum from the rising
and sweeping cont1agration now burning
throughout the State, with true temper
ance men, in behalf of estate police.
Lynx-eyed rum traffiCers see this. Some
thing must be done. Happy men :.
They find the needful ready prepared
No doubtful experiment, no untried eX-
pedient is their salvation. The Western
States, and cen our neighbor ''wOOden
nutmeg commonwealth, in their
''Adair" or damage law, affords Just
the sample. How felicitiOus Surely
heaven smiles for once on the opposite
kingdom. Push mi license" or the
damage law, to our legislation, and 50
head off that grisly monster, all horns,
teeth and claws, -''prohibition," en-
forced by a Estate police"
"Hasten We friends of ours" cries
every rum-seller in the State. Hasten
to save us, We who can make the worst
appear the better reason; we trained
men of speech and of law We wights of
the mighty pen; grave senators who are
happily free from this temperance fan
aticism-wise representatiyes-men of
the third house - cunning lobbyists,
come to our help. Don't-oh, don't let
these cold-water creatures invest them
selves with the 'COnstabulary power
Prohibition, as dead lion, we do not
fear, but oh as living dog, it would
forever follow our trail, and bay at and
bite us, and devour. Gentlemen, a lib
eral treat for you, if you will head off
this prohibition State police, move
ment. Move heaven and earth, or if
you haven't influence enough with the
former, then move earth with that other
under world, in our behalf. Bring in
license Put on the heavy bonds
We are all responsible men, in such a
case. Wen become, every mothers
son of us, respectable landlords, and
then won't we be 'constabluary OF in
terestH Surely so the most efficient
that could be desired, that would clear
out the scores of small dcalears in q
twinkle. \ terrier on rats would be
nothing to it. Only give us license
and so head off this monster of 'prohi-
bition, enforced by a State constabula-
ryH Gentlemen Of every house, and of
no house-spirits of darkness, and spir-
its of whisky barrels, save us from
this! SIC 81 dis pJacet. " PLuS.
Middlebury, October23, 1872.