Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1900-09-10
LICENSE OR PROHLBITTON-W VIII Oh
SHALL 1T BE?

Some of our honest law abiding Cit
liens who have never had an oppor-
tunity of living in license state, think
the temperance interests of our towns
and state would be advanced by a
license law.
Now license law means saloons;
and saloons mean liquor selling.
Under all forms of license the people
have every facility to get drunk, and
the young, every temptation to drink.
Can prohibition even unenforced be
worse2
A highwayman in the darkness, de-
mands s'your money Or your life"
The liquor seller demands both, and
SO long as the saloon doors stand open
to the public, just go long will men
enter and buy, and we will have more
or less drunkenness.
There are many places where the
license system is in force; places no
larger than Enosburgh Falls, having
from one to ten saloons, besides hotel
and druggists licenses. Do you think
such town could show with accurate
figures that they have had in any Civ
en- year, less drunkenness and crime,
fewer paupers or less insanity, need
less sorrow, misery and wretchedness,
than has EnosbErgh Falls under pro-
hibition.
Low license asks for the son and
husband, high license asks for the
daughter and mother also. If intern
perance is good thing for one mem
Der of the family why not for all?
A lady(?) in one of our large city
department stores with bar attached
''for ladies only" went Keeling and
staggering out of the door one day
with face flushed and bonnet awry.
She had purchased some ''bargain"
TASKS of liquor for ten cents. All will
admit the evils of intemperance, SO
why multiply Illustrations and Incl
dents?
Men who have lived in license
states and know whereof they speak,
tell us the laws are no better enforced
if as well, as in Vermont; for if man
has paid a good sum for license, he
is working tolnot only make that sum
good, but to make as much more
money as possible regardless to whom
he sells, how much, or when.
Men tell us the license law seeks to
regulate the liquor traffic; as we'll try
to regulate the hornets nest and its
occupants in the family living room,
as to regulated wide open saloon liz
your town.
Napoleon once said: "What France
needs is Mothers but what America
today needs is fathers whose private
lives shall be standing example for
total abstinence, and who will with
the ballot vote for the best and clean
est man who will agree to uphold the
law, regardless of + arty ties.
An Irish woman asked very SEN
sible question unconsciously one day.
Said she: "I'm but a poor ignorant
woman. but can you tell me why
good people don't spend as much
time, money and strength in shutting
up the saloon at our corner once for
all as they spend in shutting up my
Pat time and time again?'
Chief Justice Borill told us as fact
that nine -tenths ofrthe cases tried in
court were caused by drink It is
also q fact beyond dispute that in
many communities and cities the
saloon has the chief political inf1u-
ence.
Now the coinage of free silver is no
doubt an inlportant;Q uestlon, but the
free coinage of our boys into drunk
ards, our men into temporary maniacs
and dwelling idiots, our homes into
novels, our helpless women and chill
dren into pitiful beggars and youthful
is a bigger question and
of vastly more Importance. License
truly is s!the price of blood' and the
best blood of our town, our state and
our nation for it is the blood of our
young men and we cannot afford |
such sacrifice.-FreeP Press.
In India, the land of famine thousands die |
because they cannot obtain food. In Amer |
lea, the land of plenty, many suffer and die |
because they cannot digestthe food they eat.