Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1900-09-01
PROHIBITION UPHELD.

nraised as a success, and the MASH
chusetts law pointed to as model IL
is asserted that more liquor Is consum-
ed under prohibition than high license,
producing more drunkenness READ
the following from the official RECORDS
of Massachusetts. In 1893 the police
records show in l6 high licence cities
one arrest for drunkenness for every
Is. s of population, and In NO lisense
cities one arrest for drunkenness for
4o.1 population.
In 1895 the annual report of the Com
missioner of Prisons Of Massachusetts
shows in the high license cities one
arrest for drunkenness to 1858 popula-
tion. In the NO license cities one TO
"a 6 and arrests for other of1ences
diminished. From these official tg-
ures under the working Of the much
lauded Mass. high license local optial
law. it is seen that there are more
than twice as many arrests for drunk
eness in license than in no license or
local prohibition cities and arrests FOR
other causes diminished with dimiE-
ished drunkenness and this is the uni
yersal rule. That the open legalized
saloon increases drinking and drunk
enneSS.
The reports of the United States
Internal Revenue Commissioner for
the year ending June 30, 1887 show
collected in high license states, liquor
revenue So. II per capita, showing more
than six times the liquor traffic in
high license than prohibition states;
hence the anxiety of the liquor trade
I to get rid of our prohibition law.
Statistics show that the fees from
license are much more than lost in
the increased expenses caused by the
increased drunkenness which greatly
augments expenses of courts, police
officers, jails, prisons, poor houses,
reformatories, insane asylums, idiot
asy lums, hospitals, ETC., to say moth
ing of the loss to the community OF
good citizenship, resulting in misera-
BILE homes, destitute people, bad debts
and a general lowering of the public
veal.
i The Massachusetts law would give
a licensesto eight and eight only.
Eight persons in Barre and prohibit
tion to the other eight thousand.
The Massachusetts papers show that
there are MANY arrests in that state
for illegal selling the same as in Yer
mont now, and there would be here
under license law, and the licensed
men continually make illegal sales and
4 are law breakers equally with the I'm.
i licensed.
The claim that license can bring
general prosperity to any but to the
saloon keepers and officers is on a par
with claim that diphthera, small
pox and typhoid fever would bring
general prosperity to any but doctors,
druggists and undertakerS. 1t is a
destructive and not productive bust
ness.
i 1t takes the money from the people
and gives more or less ruin in return.
Saloon keepers sell only intoxicating
fluids and statistics show that even
moderate drinking shortens life and
! drinkers are more liable to accidents
and disease and are less liable to re-
J cover from them.
The present high license agitation
is instigated by the liquor trade whe
subsidize the press and pay men to
work for them. 1t does not come up
from the people who have the good of
humanity at heart as the agitation
against the saloon does. There is
"money in it, on the license side for
the agitators, but not on the other
side. The temperance people pay
their money and make their fight
without hope of gain in the interest
Of humanity, while the liquor side
works for revenue only, regardless of
humanity.
| This referendum scheme is device
Of the liquor trade as an entering
wedge to high license and blow at
prohibition, and any believer in our
present law who is deceived by the
sophistical arguments for referen.
dunn is not wise. We have the law
now and have no need of referendum.
If we had high license we would be
glad to get one The high license
people do not agitate for referendum
in license states-only in prohibition
states as possible method of killing
prohibition.
i Remember that facts, official testi.
mony and statistics show that pro.
hibition gives better results than any
form of license of liquor selling and l
will be only too glad to furnish testi.
mony Tor publication along this line
If this statement is questioned.