Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1901-04-18

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Sdirectly by the Vermont Anti-saloon$
4League.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS SeSoseSssssSsSos9 4
ludoe Thomson on The Relation Of
the State and Its Citizens to the 4
Prohibitory Law"
Extracts from an address delivered in Burlington
In April 1893
I am not here TO deliver a temperance
lecture from a moral standpoint except as
affected by the existing law. There has
been much misapprehension as TO the
prohibitory law OF Vermont. This law
| has been greatly nullified by rum papers
outside and inside the state IL Is
misnomer TO cali the law OF vermont
prohibitory law. Ii is aimed only al the
saloon. IL provides for the election OF
commissioner, who shall appoint liquor
/ agent for each town and makes other safes
i N the commodity illegal. II provides that
the letting Of buildings for the SAFE OF
/ liquor should be a criminal oiense;
makes every place where liquor Is soia or
| kent for sale a common nuisance Which
NAV be abated. Ii makes intoXlcation
crime. They say this is not good law IN
that II invades individual rights. IL
invades no individual rights. Every man
comes under the common law m thal ne
must so govern himself as not 10 interiors
with his neighbor. This is fundamental
nrinciple Of society. Vermont has SAID
that ii knows from experiencetthat the
saloon is immoral and demoralizing.
wish those who are doubling could have
seen the place OF my early LIE IN 1anaua
and viewed runs terrible effects. More
than 80 per cent. OF the men vent 70
drunkards graves. Saloons give us the
vulgar song and story, to say nothing OF
the treating system. II Is the deiy OF
every state to so do as will best provide for
) good citizenship. The beer drinkers OF
the German army cannot stand more thah
so per cent. as much as their abstaihing
fellows. /, as a judge, know that the
) most fruitful source of divorce IS rum ana
hard cider We have a right 10 protect
: the home for that is the foundation OF
society. The state knows that when the
saloon strikes at men it is no respeeter OF
persons, and that when man begins 20
| SNrestle with the demon be Is sure 70 De
, thrown. 1t is the duty oil every STATE 20
lessen crime. Wipe out the expense
al criminal courts caused by rum m
r Vermont and YOU will reduce the total
( two-thirds. The most atroeious murders
r 4 which have been committed were caused
by rum. Yet the condition m vernon J.
TODAY Is almost a millennium TO what II
e was half a century ago. The man VINO
' saws more rum Is used in the state now
= than when it was free is either a fool or
. liar A..
: The customs and habits Of the early day
u in this state compelled the people .
4 Vermont to rise in their might ana ask !
such things must endure forever. INT
strength Of a nation is in its wealth, bu
y ~ wealth is in the character OF IT'S son
e and daughters. The people realized ina
the environments Of the boys Of those Gay
would develop men of like character am
i was then the prohibitory law had blrth
r II was framed after serious consideration
Y. and was not enacted by fanatics IN
!, fathers ~ that law loved Vermont, the
loved their homes, they loved humanity
and they realized the waste caused by I'M
u traffic. -, -, "a
,robibitorv law. The first of these is tina
= no Iiouor shall be sold except by the nan
ne ~ the state and the state shall sell II oni
he for chemical, mechanical or medlelnt
nurposes. The town agent IS the hano
;, the state, in the meaning OF the law, an
the purpose of the law IS 10 iurnl s u.
Sacept and proper place where liquor ca
as he purchased when 1t is needed. ~
compensation of the agent must be hNe
\ ~ The selectmen or aldermen, ana u
agent is not allowed TO purchase tne hqu'
ne sells. According TO the letter az
\ | spirit OF she law, the agency can never
} a legalized dram shop.
! n crime is good. You may get drul
alone and shut yourself up, but you hu
moi inflict Yourself upon others. ms
one of the wisest provisions OF the lay
because a drunkard at large IS mo
dangerous than a mad dog at large. ~
law does not excuse man because
commits a crime when alcohol mas nerN'
his arm. -. H. III,
i. II YOU want to know what the my
II license people of Vermont would 90, re'
tbe bill presented to our legislature
isas The high license desire as repr
ssnted there was to have the right, toI
fee. to place a grog shop beside ga,
church and schoolhouse in the stal
Today the saloon does not cut any ngu
i'm Vermont politics. They say tne u
makes liars and periurers. Every GRIMM
law does that. A.
neople will lie in liquor case. But SUI
I'll men would lie at any time IN their o'
N Every town in Vermont through
- states attorney can close It's SALOONS
six weeks. The trouble IS not with I
law but with the men who enforce
her People seem to think the law VIII eniol
I a itself. The reason why the Jaw -
vas enforced is because you ana ! 40 hos
a. our duty. IL is not the duty OF Chrlstla
ers, 10 give all their attention to their SOL
nm and LET the devil run the world. IL is y
. n as much a mans duty to be good citil
ms to be a good Christian. We need
organization of citizens for the entor'
Bal ment of law. II you viii see to II that
I | RIGHT kind of men are elected and stano
few them YOU will have no trouble Win
,e,s law. "
lust New ENGLAND Magazine.
OPP The April number should be wild
read nv Vermonters, especially the pa