The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1875-07-21
tFrom the Boston Herald ]
The License Law.

The good citizen very rarely occunies b,s
time in devising schemes to defeat the oner
alton OF the laws. Still more rarely doeu
he issue circulars calling upon all those nm.
on whom particular law bears TO send him
20 apiece, that he may use his exertions
ana a part of their money to nullify the
law, to prevent its enforcement, and TO go
DOCK up the courts by the accumulation of
cases upon the dockets that justice shall be
delayed and the administration thereof i'm
peded-to fill one mans pocket-and de-
feat the ends for which those who are TAX
ing this course claimed, in the past, to be
laboring. The Lowell Times claims that
lawyer who issues such circular should
at once be removed from the bar Perbaps.
But 1t certainly does not increase popular
respect Tor the legal profession when its
members engage openly in a conspiracy TO
defeat that which they have sworn to aid.
The point of the thing is here. The state
has for years been cursed with a law which
could not be enforced, which was not in.
tended or expected to be enforced. eycept
inspots, and it is an essential or a lust law
that it should bear uniformly upon all cit-
zens, no matter whether they live in town
or country. The liquor dealers, against
whom it was rsofessedly aimed, desired its
repeal, and concurred with the great mum.
d.
BILE license law, which was capable of be-
ing enforced, as preferable to a prohibitory
law, which nobody expected TO see put in
force. Gradually public sentiment changed,
so far, at least,.a to result In the election
of legislature which substituted for the
unequal and odious prohbiiory law a IL
cense law, stringent but Just, and
not in its nature fraud and
farce like the statute it replaced.
The liqnor dealers protested to be satis-
fed. They knew, as does everybody else.
that this commonwealth will not consent
TO the open, unregulated, unrestricted sale
of ardent spirits, and it was believed thew
would hail with joy the enactment of law
which recognized their rights while putting
upon the traffic necessary restraint Ii
was expected that ardent prohibtionists
would oppose and obstruct the enforce
ment of the law, and attribute to it all sorts
of things for which it was not responsible.
1t 10 not surprising that in some towns the
law is not executed, and that the results
which come from this official negligence
would be unfairly held up as a sample of
the working of the law. 1t was not ex-
pected that the liquor dealers-sO many OF
them-would show a preference for the old
system, under which officials were bribed
and the trade pursued in defiance of law,
and against the new plan, under which the
better class, who are granted licenses, are
projected while they conform to the law.
We hope in this city, and all over the
state, those whose duty it is to enforce this
law will do their duty in spite of all COM
binations and rings and circulars, and So5
levies and attempts to block up the courts.
Never within our recollection have we had
law which was so capable of performing
the ends which are aimed at in regulating
Dettci ucsNi't. 49, ~-rf~ - g.,
citizen Let us see it fairly tired this year,
for, whatever some hot-headed and avar-
icious men may desire, the people do not
want to return next year to prohibition.