Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1898-03-24


Is the crime of murder right in prin-
ciple No. Is the law violated Yes.
Is stealing right in principle No. Is
the law violated ? Yes. Is piracy
RIGHT in principle ? No. Is the law
ever violated /? Yes Is it right in
principle TO sell intoxicating drinks to
our Young men No. Is the law vio-
lated Yes. Then don't condemn one
unless YOU condemn them all because
they are all violated.
Again, on the same docket in which
are recorded the violators OF the pro-
hibitory law are the divorce cases also.
Shall we give it up in hopelessness and
say that married life is total failure !?
How many there are who are ready
to carry the followers of Eve to the
fullest extent of the law but take it for
granted that mankind cannot be
checked in his downward course be-
cause Noah got drunk
Which is the greater evil, the thief
who takes away but does not destroy
or the drunkard who destroys himself
morally, intellectually and physically
and brings crime, calamity and untold
misery upon himself, his family or
community
He who with bloated face and ruddy
nose stands behind the whiskey bar,
wrapped up in his garb of smiles, and
deals out that poisonous glass to my
son Is, in my opinion, guilty ola crime
more atrocious than piracy and more
revolving than the crime OF murder. If
You come and steal horse or COW |
can replace it, but when you steal
mind, soul and body from my little
sons, who can compensate save heaven
itself for that heinous crime
Neither doth the saloon end in a
single glass of rum Nearly every sa-
loon has back as well as a front door.
Though the.ligbts appear to be extin-
guished ut ten o'clock. 90 into the
''rear saloon at one, two or three
o'clock at night and there you will find
your father, husband, son or mother
yes. young ladies, your lover, gambling
away his money '.ior that which is not
bread and spending his time for that
which is not for moral or intellectual
growth.
Who will run these ''well regulated"
high license saloons? VIII such men as
f.. A. Thomas, j. ii. Lamson and Mann
and Allen change their line of moral
business ? | think not No decent
man of common principles, | think,
would so lower himself The most de-
grading specimens of every type and
foreign tongue would enter nearly every
village and hamlet and set up their |
low-liyed dens of moral degradation |
When located let me see you get them
out
One writer says, "Prohibition.is a
beautiful law and has been a great sue
cess in Vermont as far as keeping peo-
pie out of the finest state in New Eng
landn is concerned. Right. brother,
That is just the class we want to keep
out and if more of the same sort with
in this state would join the high license
brother across the border | think we
would have very little trouble. May
we have an open debate and will tell
you what ! saw during several years in
4 high license state
In conclusion, perhaps the prohibit
tory law is abused more than some
)ther laws.y yet it is no argument why it
ought not to be respected and enforced
he same as all laws, and if ii is not, it
is not fault OF its righteous cause but
because the officers whom you and |
,lect do not do their duty. Let us first
moose men of principle to represent
Is as officers or Legislators and elect
hem, not with rum but with hon
st votes. Secondly. increase the pen
Ilty of the violators of that great inn
moral crime and men of principle will
AIRY them into execution. Our town
las such a judge and Montpelier has
UGH officers.
We are glad to read such articles of /,
ound judgment and purity of thought
) came from Mr.. Farrar, Mr.. Page and !
III. f." of Rochester. Such are the ,,
entiments of the deepest thinkers and !
EDUCATORS OF our country, to whom we
re indebted for the most that we have
hat is scientific, philosophical or edu- {
and not to the saloon keeper 9
II his customers.
Is our cry-.'More rum and more
laces to sell it ,r-the purest sentiment
We can give in exchange tor our exist Z
nee? Is this the dawning of the era
nto which We would have our children I
inter- when our tongues are silent and :
re have ''shufiled off this mortal coil ?' i
Yours for prohibition because it is
light in principle. G.. III. SLACK. 1
Randolph, March 10Th.