Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1898-03-17

less than blood money wrnng from the
necessities of the families Of those who
patroniZe the saloons?
The advocacy of high license is
nothing more than a species of mental
dissipation superinduced by habits OF
wrong thinking.
Emotion has charged their brain with zeal
But their tongue has elogged the balance-wheel.
Yes, men will argue and philosophize
along these lines until by repetition of
sentiment they form habit of thinking
they are right; but right has its foun-
dation in nature and not in mems opin-
ion.
If n thing is right you will feel it,
sense it and know it.
Oh, that high-license orators would
let righteous principles rise up before
their moral vision until they drowned
the voice of expcdiency And when
the time shall come that their self-con-
sciousness shall break through the thin
veil of sophistry that they are trying TO
weave around it and they come out up
on the high platform of the principles
of good citizenship, prohibition and
righteousness and true godliness, they
will look back upon their past career
and want to sew fig leaves together to
cover up their shame.
The Roman senate congratulated
Nero for his diabolism in poisoning his
own mother.
IL is sad commentary on the great
army of humane men and women that
have lived and labored TO carry on the
worlds philanthrophies all through the
ages of Christian civilization, from
that time to the present day. TO find the
state legislature passing law allowing
its miniature Neros to buy permits to
carry on a diabOlism amOngthe citizen
ship of this free state BY dealing out q
liquid poison that contaminates every
attribute of manhood. No, gentlemen,
this will not be done
When you employ high license to
kill the drink curse you have mar
rage on your hands instead of a filner-
ala marriage that nothing but prohi-
bition can divorce; not particularly a
love affair. but a union of appetite and
avarice, the result of which will swell
the ranks of rum-cursed victims and
fill the pockets of the rumscller with
ill-gotten gains.
High license has sought to force
by the use of prohibitory
restrictions, which is the lime of the
mixture. Prohibition is too sacred
principle to form mongrel alliance
with its worst enemy. No; give us
prohibition pure and simple. When
our state representative meet in the
capitol building at Montpelier and pass
a high license law, they have written
.'lchabod" over its portals
Ii prohibition does not prohibit, it is
because we have arraycd over against
its pure principles weak public SEN
timent reinforced by portion of the
state press and also a class of men that
are doing everything that lies in their
power to circumycnt and defeat its sue
cessful operation. And because they
have partially succeeded in doing this,
they ask us to consider ii failure.
Now the revenue that high license
Yields only makes crime-breeding a lit
lie more self-supporting; Tor if the
state becomes sponsor in the care and
of criminals that high license
makes, il is no more than fair that high
license should pay the state for the
privilege of making them.
But how does all this comport with
he true dignity Of American citizen
ship and that inalienable right to life,
liberty and the pursuit of happiness ?
Honor bright, it were better that the
licensed saloon should stay away In
reduce it and you have the first person
N the devils trinity, and the next two
heads of perdtion, the gambling den
md the brothel, will soon follow.
Yours for Truth and Sobricty.
l.. +. FARRAR, Randolph, Vt.