Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1900-03-30

brand Of breakfast food, which no one
else in The town is selling, food that
really delights all who use it so that they
will secretly recommend it to their
friends. Such method OF Introduction
every one knows would be slow com
pared with the method of advertising
and display of goods. But if that par
ticular brand of food was under the ban
of the law, and the man, If caught, liable
to arrest and a fine for first offense and
to fine and imprisonment for second and
successive oifenses, he would find it i'm
possible to develop more than compare.
lively small trade; and the more watch
full the law abiding citizens. including
the mothers and the wives and the sis
tiers, against such trade, the less would
be his success. All our towns have
families of sober boys and men, where
there would be drinkers, if the saloonist
could appeal to them with his liquors as
openly and directly as can the candy
man or the fruit man with his wares
The temperance worker who rescues a
man from drunkenness and helps him to
50 as ert his manhood that he gets onto
his feet again and starts of in Il sober life
does well. The parents who so bring
up their boys that they keep sober from
the first do equally well The law
against the saloon that helps them train
up sober boys into sober men is good
law, while law that gives the saloon,t
chance at those boys and a special cp-
portunity to appeal to them for trade. is
bad law.
In the past few months the Mail and
Breeze of Topeka, Kan, sent this ques.
ton to many prominent men in the
state, "What would you suggest to ad.
vance the interests of Kansas" The
Rt. Rev. f. Il. Millspaugh, Protestant
Episcopal bishop of Kansas, answered it
rs follows: "N GU ask me a very easy
question, for the answer is potent. i'm one
direction at least; the interests of Kan
sas would be advanced, not only moral
w and spiritually. but materially, were
the laws which are on our books enforced
in regard to prohibition. love Kansas
and its people and now know them suf-
ficiently well to be confident that the
laws which they make they can enforce
The harder it is made to obtain intOXl-
cants the fewer are they who will make
an attempt The fliring temptation
of the saloon will be gone. There will
be no public menace to good government
and the Joint undiscovered will accom-
modate but the few, and discovered will
be a stencil in the nOStrils of true citizen
ship. have lived in two states with
high license, and say unhesitatingly that.
even as Kansas is today. the contrast is
strikingly in favor of our own state.
Wholesale liquor dealers inform me that
ar one time they made large money in
Kansas, but that day had gone by. What
comfort this is to the friends of I'M
made drunkards, and what a security for
Kansas sons if the open Joint and the
tolerated fines were no more, This is
not can't"
With Us in Addison county the open
Joint and the tolerated fine is gone, as
well as the tlaring temptation of the
saloon. If there is an undiscovered
Joint, a secret saloon, it is being watched
and will surely be discovered and cleaned
out. Let the sober homes that our anti.
saloon laws have helpedJ make sober
watch and fight and vote to keep the
saloon out and help make it harder, in
stead of easier, to obtain intoxicating
liquors, so that fewer rather than more
will make the attempt. If our prohibi-
ton laws have not prevented all we
wished in the past, yet they have pre-
vented much evil that hourishes under
license laws. Atlpresent. in our county
and state, they are asl well enforced as
our anti-stealing, prostitution, anti
gambling lawsI and are as effective
against drunkenness as are these laws
against stealing, prostitutions and
gambling. Il. j. BARTON.
Salisbury, VT.