Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1883-07-23

to his own rhetoric, is to say that,
for a sum proporti med to his ability
to pay, any man may make as many
drunkards as he can. He cannot
therefore logically object to the high
license for granting the very same
permission in more restricted form.
If it be wrong for a man who pays
5000 for a license to make as many
drunkards as he can-which is the
implication of his remark-it is quite
as wrong for man who pays $40 for
a license to do the same thing.
But what is the object of license?
Why not allow any man to sell in
toxicating liquor for a beverage at
his pleasure and without license,
as he sells bread and sugar? Be-
cause by common consent it is a
commodity, like gunpowder, the sale
of which may be regulated by law.
The regulation must have due refer
ence to the object sought. That OBJ
ject is public order, and as public
order is promoted by diminishing
drunkenness, to restrict the opportu-
nifty of getting drunk is to fulfill the
purpose for which licenses are grant
ed. It is a question of expediency.
A nominal license is no regulation at
all. A high license actually regu-
lates. The only fair alternative,
therefore, is plain. It is either I'M
licensed dram-selling or dram-selling
so licensed as to attain the object of
licensing. To agree that license is
just, but to insist that a $50 license
Is equitable, while a 5000 license is
an invasion of personal right, is ludi-
crous. It is the daring make-shift
of political desperation. If this be
''new democracy, it is the same
sold mole. ''-Harper's Weekly.
GOV. BARSTOW'S GOOD SENSE.
Gov. Barstow acted with charac-
teristic prudence and good sense in
promptly dispatching the militia to
the Vershire mine. AS we antici-
pated they were not obliged to come
into fatal collision with the miners,
but without doubt their presence
stamped out what might have proved
most melancholy conflict between
the local authorities and the miners.
We have already expressed our opin-
ion that the miners were shamefully
treated they were melted to vio-
lence by abuse, but of course how
ever much we may condemn the con-
duct Of the company, the authorities
could not permit the men to collect
their pay by pillage, and it was just,
proper and sagacious for Gov. Bar
stow to promptly re-enforce the au-
thorities with the militia. 1t is new
er wise to wait until extensive mis-
chief is wrought before the authori-
ties interfere, and the threat of or.
gained violence to valuable property
was sufficiently formidable to justify
the action of Gov. Barstow. 1t was
a real kindness to the misused anC
misguided miners to prevent then
from committing public wrongs il
order to enforce their private rights
The show of the armed state fore
has achieved its purpose of restoring
law and order without blood-shed
and we commend Gov. Barstow'
wisdom in anticipating anarchy an
stamping out this threatened riot be
fore it had burst into bloodsheC
His action was timely and conserve
: tive, and saved valuable lives o
both sides. 1t recalled the miners t
a sense of the folly of attempting
enforce their rights by lawlessnes
and reminded the company that
was playing with dangerous expl'
i sives when it abused human natuu
so wantonly that it broke into arme
rebellion. From our personal know
ledge of Gov. Barstow we have /
e doubt that he felt a strong natur
o sympathy with the cause of the
wronged miners, and probably |
> never had a more disagreeable du
/ than to answer the call for the milit
y to reduce these men into obedien,
: to law and respect for order; but
g did his duty promptly and it doub
less will prove an act of public b
. neyolence to both employer al
h employed. The whole state has h;
It its attention forcibly called to t
wrongs of these working men, al
:, the company will not be likely
L again hetchel their men into ric
ST The company has one plain duty
r do, viz: If they cannot pat up mo
y ely enough to pay their men, let the
!. shat up their works. A business til
~ cannot earn enough to pay its CT
rent expenses ought to close out |
u fore it gets so it cannot pay its bel
We are very glad that Gov. Barst'
S in peace prepared for war and pr
y vented by his prompt and timely 6
- ton bloody conclusion to this gu;
- rel. The company's property is
u cure; the miners have been prevel
ly ed from committing q most mels
n. choly mistake, and the rights of
ri parties for the future are likely to
=. respected and enforced.-Radla
y Herald.
oh THE MONTPELIER SEMINAR
Sc Noah Granger, the efficient ag,
for the endowment of the Montpel
lis Seminary iC in tho 0ountu apd ic