St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1899-06-14
HIGHucENsE COMMENTS.
How some Vermont Editors support the
PrOhibitOry Law.

prohibitory law?-[Essex Junction
Record.
St. Johnsbury is wearing smoked
goggles. In Herbert L. Doyle the
town had hotel proprietor for
whom the citizens should have shown
respect. His Avenue house was con-
Quoted on business principles. 1t
was one of the best public houses in
the state. Yet he is fined $519.O2
and sent to Rutland to serve SEN
tence of 60 days on the charge that
he has committed the second ofiense
against that most remarkable
creation-prohibition. Mr.. Doyle's
first offence was committed some
seven years ago in another town.
The Creator forgives the sinner, but
the prohibitory law never relents!
: Essex Junction Record.
Now st. Johnsbury, mind you, is
no ordinary country town. 1t is the
largest place between Concord and
Montreal, and the center of trade for
very wide territory. 1t is distin-
guished for a remarkably high moral
and social tone. Its people are
thoroughly representative of all that
is best in our Vermont life. They
are of superior intelligence, thor
oughly up to date, and as law
abiding a community as can be
found anywhere on the face of the
earth.
And yet here are fourteen person
pleading guilty to violation of the
prohibitory law and suffering heavy
penalties therefor. Could anything
more clearly show the impractical
bility of the prohibitory law?
One of these fine days Vermont will
sweep prohibition into the dust heap,
and replace it by system under
which the liquor traffic can be regu-
lated and controlled.-[ Burlington
News.
1t is stated that the recent SEN
fencing of Landlord H. L Doyle of
the Avenue House at St. Johnsbury
to term of 60 days in the House of
Correction at Rutland is but the
beginning Of a crusade that will
make that awfully good town on
the Passumpsic as dry as the Sahara
desert. Judge Thompson, the
remorseless, is to preside at the
coming term of the county court
there and the states attorney, like
the Mikado in Gilbert and Sullivan S
one time popular comic opera, has
"got little list" of some 25 holders
of the United States licenses who are
likely to learn that the way OF the
transgressor is hard unless in their
instances it should point and quickly
too, across the border into New
Hampshire. St. Johnsbury has
always been held up to the world as
an exceedingly moral and upright
: community, and the revelation that
t there are 25 violators Of the prohib
t itory law in their midst must hav
' been shocking news to the goot
: people of the town. Vermont Sun
The arrest and conviction of the l.
: liquor sellers at ST. Johnsbury doe
: not tell anywhere near tn
: whole story of that town whicl
so many superficial observer
= have described as the model one 70
the working of prohibition up to tn
fullest ideal of the late Gen. Nea
n Dow. The Law and Order Leagu
A there which has started a campaig
v to make the law a reality, has pre-
e cured from Portsmouth list {
n those who hold U. S. liquor license
,. and finds that there are about IS i
e the town. This is one for each &c
II persons, or for each average 6
e families. Does anybody believ
after making full allowance for tt
fact that they are mostly sellers in
small way, that any worse conditio
b. of affairs would be possible under
is license system Fl Brattleboro r
former.
he If the Law and Order Leag,
:, choose to undertake the Augean tas
> why discourage it ?-[ Rutland New
Lo A large number of witnesses ha'
~ been subpGnaed and bell boy 1
VI the American House is said to ha'
TO given the officers list of those ha
IN ing obtained liquor there throus
ID. the bell boys. MIR. Doyle went ava
ed for short vacation when the trout
commenced, but concluded it w
he better to come back and take /
., medicine than to stand trial befo
nd Judge Thompson. n T
of new Avenue House cost $500 al
er is modern up-to-date building. T
nd furnishings were put in by Mr.. boy
'rt backed by some of the most influe
as tial business men of the town, at
a SO expense of $4,000. Since he open
el the house on January 5, 1898, he b
of kept a model house,
ay There is already talk of sending
ut petition to Gov. Smith asking him
en- pardon Mr. Doyle. If one is Giro
nc' lated nearly every business man "
zen r sign list. Johnsbury despatch
r 20. st. Adams Messenger.
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