Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1890-03-24

who sells liquor in prohibitory state
feels that he is doing a dishonorable
and criminal business, and he can
not look virtuous temperance men
and women in the face without blush
of shame on his countenance.
4 High license is strong induce
ment for persons to commence a life
of dissipation while they behold the
open bar or the gilded saloons and
leading citizens taking their glass of
liquor publicly, and asking young
men to join them in social glass.
These young men, who have hitherto
been total abstainers of the use Of
liquor, will think, to see their leading
citizens drink the intoxicating bever-
age and not drunkards, it will be per-
fectly safe and proper for them to
drink liquor also, and the act is re-
peated and the vicious appetite for
stimulents is formed; the quantity is
increased, and the frequency of drink
ing is multiplied, and in few years,
at least, the virtuous and strictly
temperate young man is confirmed
drunkard, an intellectual, moral and
social wreck; who was once the
JOY of his beloved parents, brothers
and sisters, but now the source of
untold sorrow to the whole house
hold. The first glass did the mis-
chef, to be popular with so called
leading citizens in drinking with them
at the bar or gilded saloon, which has
been the bane of all civilized nations
for hundreds of years.
The writer is opposed to high
license from the fact that every per-
son who votes for it becomes a par
taker of the sin and crime of liquor
selling. He who gives aid and COM
fort to those who commit treason by
taking up arms against the govern
ment is held equally criminal with
the openly rebellious party by the
laws of the nation. The law holds
good in all criminal and moral law.
Let every person before he votes for
high license reflect moment wheth-
er he wishes to become a participant
in the crime of liquor selling, which
is the direct cause of eight-tenths of
the crime and pauperism of this and
all the civilized nations. The writer
does not covet the record of three
clergymen in Vermont, who, it is all
eyed in one of the state papers, sign
ed the petition for high license con-
vention IN Rutland.
6 l object to high license be-
cause facts show that in every state
where prohibition exists it has done
a great good in lessening the sale of
liquor and drunkenness also. This
is the verdict from Iowa, Kansas,
Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont.
Liquor is sold in many towns unlaw-
fully no doubt, and especially in
the large villages, but those places
even are better off morally and So
cially than they would be with high
license but the towns generally in
this state are pretty free from the
curse of liquor selling, and the pro-
hibition sentiment is strong among
the great majority of the people, men
and women, and the writer has had
an opportunity to know on this sub
ject ever since the prohibitory law
was enacted, as he has lived in many
different towns in the state in his
ministerial duties. If the law has not
been executed as it ought to have
been in some localities, it is because
that ministers, editors, business men,
politicians, and temperance citizens
generally, have not done their duty
to help execute it, in fully sustaining
states attorneys and grand jurors in
the execution of the law. All good
citizens should be as prompt to do
their best to see that the crime of liq-
nor selling is punished, as they would
that of theft, burglary, counterfeit
ing and manslaughter. He is not a
good citizen who does not thus act.
z. The writer objects to high IL
cense from the fact that the real
wants of humanity do not require
the sale of liquor in any form for a
beverage, and for medicine only in
extreme cases this has been the ver-
dict of the medical profession gener-
ally for long years In this and other
civilized nations. hence there is NO
call for hotels to keep it for their
guests, whether rich or poor, honored
or dishonered, for lawyers, judges,
statesmen, politicians or loafers young
or old.
s. The writer objects to high IL
cense because it is not in harmony
with Gods mode of legislation. He
gave the human race a perfect law in
the ten commandments. He has not
repealed the moral law because the
majority of the human family have
trampled it under their feet ever since
it was instituted, but his voice to the
rebels in his moral government has
ever been: lay down your rebellion:
arms, repent of your sin and crime
, and become loyal subjects to my holy
! law. He has not modified his law, 6
) jot or little of it, to please idolaters
adulterers, thieves, muderers or Sab
bath desecraters, or even liquor sellers
for he saith: "Woe unto him thai