Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1898-03-17
PROHIBITION OR HIGH LICENSE,
Views of Various Correspondents on
this Interesting Subject.
For IL. f.. Rochester.

Mr.. EDITOR When | answered III
Els communication few weeks ago
did not suppose That | was crossing
blades with woman Had | known
it my bashfulness, if not my will, might
have prevented me from so doing, but
now that | have 'thrown down the
glove | am not going TO show the
white feather by retreating out will
stay in the arena until driven out by
something besides fear. Now my dear
sister II. f., let me assure you that we
are not discussing the evils of runs
doings. Was such the case should be
with you; for should you examine my
record think that you would find it as
clean and pure as any of your brothers
and sisters in the true temperance
cause as have never yet drank a glass
OF rum, gin, brandy or whiskey as a
beverage and not as a medicine since
my mother gave it TO me almost fifty
years ago, and use no tobacco in any
form. Again let me say to you that
calling people fools is but poor ar
gument for either prohibition or any
other question. / remember when
some ministers of the gospel preached
from their pulpits the doctrine of in
FAINT damnation and told that "hell is
lined with the skull bones of infants"
and the laymen believed il but | never
believed It, You say that "God is at
the helm of the prohibition boat" / do
not believe that either. | have always
been taught that all things were posi-
bic with God. Now such being the
fact, why has he run your boat around
for more than fifty years without max
inc a single port Or if he is at the
helm of the boat why did he ever ueate
rum, putting it into almost every arti-
Gle OF food we eat. giving his children
an irresistible appetite for it !? Now if
you are mother do you 90 to work to
make a cake, some fine preserves or
candy and place it in some place to
tempt your little one to sin in some
way by eating it, for the sake of pun
ishing him.
OF course you do no such thing.
Now are you better than God, more
merciful, more kind, more loving to
your children than God is to His /
guess not, for God is good
Again you intimate that ..the devil
is our captain.n II so. who elected him
to that position ? OF course God ere
ated him and placed him in charge.
do not believe that either. win YOU
kindly give me your proof that n per-
sonal devil exists And you can't
make me. believe that God is the
cruel, vindictive being which YOU try
to make him TO be.
Again You accuse us of "trying TO
hide our candle under a busheln and
say that ''the prohibition LIGHT
is never hidden in that way This as
sertion brand as false: Tor does not
my challenge TO this discussion indicate
that we want to place "A bic arc light at
the Tiptop House in Rochester that
may show to all OF the inhabitants of
that goodly town,and all OF the country
round about it, the stumbling-blocks
that the prohibition law has placed in
the way of the true temperance cause
and is now trying to keep in position.
As to the light of the prohibitory law
burning brightly to guide the errino
brother back to virtue, the past plainly
proves that '.for ways that are dark and
deeds that are crooked" there is no 9th
er law upon the statute books of YER
mont that equals it.
Now, my dear sister, will you kindly
tell us what you know about what the
friends of high license wish to do
Judging from your writing and the
talk of other prohibitionists, you expect
that with the coming OF high license
every pipe and every vein that brings
the pure sparkling water from the
beautiful mountain sides down to our
homes will at once change from bring
ing the water to bringing rum. We
hope that it will not bring any more
rum into our lovely state than the pres
INT law does; for, like yourself, we
wish to see it eradicated from our state |
md think that the only point onwhich |
we really differ is as to the best means
our state of it.
In closing this article let me say that |
newspaper discussion is long way to |
lrrive at decision and some time |
nay come TO Rochester to speak upon |
he question. If | do come. will |
rou not come to hear me a? Please |
it dpon the right-hand seat in the
ront row and wear a. blue rose in your
lair that | may know you. and | will
wear yellow pink in my buttonhole
hat you may know | am that awful
DOL who is trying to Get ''those drunk
n Boston rowdies" to come up here
md inveigle all of our boys and girls
nto state Of beastly intoxication.
BLESSED are they who proclaim them
elves ''better than thou
The CHALLENGER.
Earnest for proh,bition