Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1878-10-23

The two systems now before the public in
regard to temperance are the license system
and prohiJaiOn. Shall we permit the sale
of spurious liquors under legal restrictions
and license Or shall we prohibit their
SALE as drink, entirely
The former system is much the older of
the two. This has been in operation with
us, in one form or another, ever since the
first settlement of the country.
The two systems are based on entirely
different views as to the qualities of spirit.
GUS liquors, and the effect of their use. The
license system assumes-and so it has ever
been UNDERSTOOD spirits are good for
us, nutritious, Strengthening, and that our
constitutions require them, especially when
exposed to peculiar hardship. They are in
furious only in their abuse, when used to
excess.
Now if this be true, the license system is
right. We should not prohibit that which
does us good, and which our constitutions
require. All that is now needed is to regu-
late its use, prevent excess, and enjoy the
benefit.
But is claimed as among the discoveries
of modern times, that this old, fundamental
principle of the license system is not true.
1t has been ascertained, and it is thought
monstrated, that, for persons in health,
and to be used as drink, spirituous liq
uors are not useful. Their habtual use is
injurious, pernicious. They merely stimu-
late-they do not strengthen. They disar-
range the delicate fhers OF the human sys-
TEN, induce disease both of body and mind,
break down the constitution generally, and
result in all kinds of moral disorders-in
premature miseres and death.
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hoo Iona soen IL And vat tbere are nil;
TO- nf soLer MAN ,bo ;nsist ON Icans;u,
tha eo sonroo 81 thasa ayii. aud On saiI;,'SS
these licenses for money Can anyibina he
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