Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1895-12-02
THE HIGH LICENSE CONSPIRACY.

harm; but it is sometimes necessary
so to do. Our esteemed high license
opponent, the Rutland Herald, and the
democratic office holding Brother
Dodge Of the Burlington Independent,
have been singing mud and SANDER
at the MONITOR, and upon the good
town of Barton, and the MONITOR guns
must be run out again. If the attack
were made only on the editor, it would
not be worth while to waste any am
munition. The personal attack is
only what any man may expect from
certain class, if he stands up stead
| lily for temperance and the enforce
ment of the temperance laws of the
state. There is, as many understand
at this time, a band Of conspirators
who are determined to bring the pro-
hibitory laws of the state into con-
tempt, and they are resorting to ev-
cry means, fair and foul, to accomplish
their ends. This gang consists chiefly
of those who oppose all sumptuary
laws; the rumsellers in the state, and
those out of the state who wish to
open up this ground to their traffic;
those who have suffered from the tolls
of the law; of that large number who
wish to engage in the liquor traffic;
of the Rutland Herald, the Burlington
Independent, and a few other papers
not noted for temperance standing,
and that old head-partner of all ras-
Gals, the devil. The MONITOR expects
and courts the enmity of this whole
crowd.
There recently appeared in the
Independent a slanderOus article, upon
which the Herald pounced down, as
carrion bird swoops down on decay
ing carcass, which did great injustice
to this town and to some of it's citi-
zens. This we resent. In this locah-
| ty where the facts are known this at
tack, wicked as it was, does no harm.
Outside somebody may believe there
is some little truth in it.
| One of the ISLANDERS was that liquors
were being sold at the American
House in this village, with the insinu
alton that this was being done with
the knowledge and consent of the
eleven men who own the house. An
other was that the druggists in this
town held U. S. liquor licenses and
that they were violators of the liquor
laws of the state. The mud was chiefly
| hurled on a druggist, who is a part
owner in the hotel; and, lastly, it
was undertaken to be made to appear
that the people of this village are not
enforcing prohibition or seeking to
have the law enforced.
Now as to the first state ment: The
hotel company is composed of eleven
citizens, rigid temperance men. They
bought the hotel originally to keep it
out of the hands of repuJed rumsell
er, who was negotiating for its pur-
chase. They are at present building,
as an addition to the old hotel, one of
the pleasantest and best hotel build
ings in this part Of the state; they
| have refused, time after time, to let
the old and the new hotel to parties
whose reputation is not such on the
| line OF Temperance that they could be
trusted to keep a strictly out and out
! temperance house; their house has
been let with the stipulation that no
! liquors should be sold in it; and during
the few months which the house has
been run by an employe, the company
has not furnished a single drop of Ii
quor, nor have the owners or manag-
ers had any knowledge that any per-
son or employe about the house has
been selling liquor. The company
does not believe that liquors have
! been sold in or about it. AS to the at
tempt to blacken the reputation of
one of our druggists, we have this to
say: He is a man who has grown up
with not a scar nor scratch on his
reputation from boyhood. Nobody
here accuses him Of selling drop of
liquor for drinking purposes. His
! store is as clean as his character. AS
to the last SANDER, which applies to
! this whole part of the state as much
as to this town, we assert that prohi-
bition is practically enforced; that
rumsellers against whom any reason
able proof can be produced are pros
ecuted and fined, both in the local
and the county courts; drunken men
are arrested and fined, and there is a
public sentiment, constantly on the
increase, which is sustaining the law
and making its enforcement easy.
We are not contending that the law is
taking the desire out of the minds of
the conscienceless to sell rum, Or that
it will cure vitiated appetite; but it
makes the rumseller in this section