Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1902-12-05
COMMUNISM RUN MAD.
AND LEvYING A pIRATICAL TOLL ON THE
LICENSE LAW.


AND LEvYING A PIRATICAL TOLL ON THE
LICENSE LAW.
Not Content With Grab of Nearly 100000
Through State Highway and School Taxes,
Taken From More Heavily Taxed Towns and
Cities for the Benefit of Those Lighter
Taxed, 1t Demands Another $1,000 From
License Fees and Penalties And Forces the
Law to Become Farce in Its Restrictions
Its Demands A Scheme Sure to Defeat the
Law if Allowed to Remain in 1t How 1t
Would Skin Brattleboro Out of $l1 900.
The license local option bill now
close to enactment in the Legislature,
though it falls considerably short of
the best attainable, will nevertheless
anywhere, provided two fatal defects
can be amended out of it, as the Sen
ate has proposed, and the House, in
the spirit of communism that has TAX
en- hold of it, refused. These defects
are the provisions giving three quarters
of all the license fees and penalties to
the state and thence through the high
way fund mainly to the small or no Ii
cense towns. Any other defects or
shortcomings can be remedled by flu
ture legislation if experience proves
them to be necessary: but these, if
they are allowed enactment now, are
fastened upon us forever. and piling
robbery upon robbery as they do, and
as will not fail to be made clear in the
discussion of the next two months, are
as certain as anything in the future
can be, to lead to the rejection of the
law at the hands of the people.
The provision sending three quarters
of the penalties TO the state while load
ing the costs Of all prosecutions, as we'll
as policing. on the towns, with "a draw
back that is chiefly illusory, has no par
allel for mcanneSs in all the Legislative
ANIMAL, of the human race and has not
shadow of reason 10 stand on-and no
body has suggested on"-but that of
bare faced robbery, and II must newt
ably operate To enforcement Of the
law, verifying the prophecy Of prohi-
bitionists that the restrictions of Ii /
cense viii be no better obeyed than
prohibition. a glance is sufficient to
show this;
II an ordinary town the Iicrns ngBoaTd /
the , il AZ an annual NIX ca.f II $4,000
or it can faithfully do what the law
Gi@ con- ., lateS, eaIatiallt'y T4 t.I
Inc. nm 4v.,ry co1nt,lajnt and ,,rn,rc,It
ng every violation. This with what
the Gil rs4nlrts o. other "rh''r- .oooo
"''''' '''''''''' '''''''''''' 800
Difference in cost To the town between
hone, enforcement aud q l"wIreS rum ,oon
rho r,.,r,.uf v,tcbf,,Inns. mere j., tb,.
loss, Of course, viii be realized in pen
aitlrs' MnIch run from ~ To- -"
nv, ',ulht and 'rr1,ed TO- 1,nou9t an
nually to.-...-.'-............ e2oo,oo
OF which state get. -........- 10"
A,dthe to,,p an
Net cost to the town Of honest. n)-erv-
r, ancg by Official, ,........... $500
''ai l '" r, !. '' Of ar nr,.r5,"n .a , rar.
above what is realized from respond
ent, can thr,e they might De ,ryo
rht lii rrnridcs HAT if tiay
exceed towns share IT pen.
alties, q so, the state shall
a ,,nnl, IN o,fe''P""''ef' 'i the am
Leaving the town TO bear the net cost
~ prosecutions ''''''' '''''''-'''' -
Total loss to town for benefit Of no-li-
cense towns .........-............ Sii250
To give the nenaltias to the town ~
originally nrovidpd would make if an
,birrt for every taynayer as well as
every tennerance man In see thai the
law j. oheyed This robbery scheme
Is nothing more nor less than to nun
IN him for dning 50 And ~ course
Inc rrsI,)t will he Thar the average Town ,
WON'T dn if. and aspariaIly the large ,
owns and ,.itie. WHARF tho cost and
.oss would no much Iarp.r
The oral. hinrr nf tbraa7oIIartars NJ the !
irensa fens has a color ~ moral orgn-
nent for il yrbiIo his has rone II :
: that nv as much as tho money :
: taken away from the towns fhe +
emntation IN cram licenses for the !
.alza If it viii ha las,anad This i r
he Same tbin,, os ifI shoulI ,biloso- =
,bize hat If Won GET that so that j. i
.nmin,, ~ Won Won might make a had :
$50 nf i r,e, drnnl, nerhans-tberaforo :
viii stcai il md save Won from Tenn. q
atinn and What a hansvoIant faIIow +,
ro,lJ tLnn ~ Tba ora.ba1f If the /
iranss faes which he ORIGINAL hin prn- p
'osad and The Sanata has voted ~ send e
+, tho st,teard b;,bu.,, frrd j. rrax, !
,a,,n,d tLa fair -baro cH,l;anr;nn cnn ;,
ribntions to tbr fraf,fc Inv surround g