Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1902-05-29

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as they wish" he says, they are sure 10
debauch not only the body social but the
body polite also. The saloon forms
the natural club and meeung-place, for
the ward leaders and 'heelers'-sO mucn
50 that the bar-room politician has become
q recognized factor in local political gov
eminent. The saloonkeepers are always
hand-in- glove with the professional polin-
clans. Their power has been terror to-
all parties"
For any political aspirant to talk Of
| fighting a political machine real or ina
ginary by introducing into the State IL
censed saloons is certainly the most ex-
quisite irony.
And then il ought always TO be remem-
bered by the man who is thinking whether
/ il is wise 10 give the sanction Of the law 70
private bar rooms, that the more respec-
liable we make the saloon the more dan
gerous we make 1t. The so-cailed best
/ saloons do the worst harm 10 the best
I men. Your habitual drunkard will go any
where-do anything to get his drink. But
the BOYS from the homes that you love
will not ordinarily do that. The critics OF
the Vermont law are never tired Of saying.
prohibition merely drives the trihic under
ground and. wild as the statement Is. It
points a truth For il is precisely the un-
foreground dive that your seif-respec
young men viii not resort to. II is when
you begin TO make the saloon respectable,
! with the countenanCe of the law; with
plate glass and handsome furnishings, and
lights and music and an pleasant sur
lroundiugs. with social brightness ana
/ Treating" and good fellowshlp-it Is then
THAT the real temptation through drink be-
gins for the boys and men il is within
u your power and mine 20 help 10 save. IL IS
then that the vote to establish the saloon
Is seen to bs exactly equivalent 10 vote
. 70. nnFUu pNuTp hes Tor
the manly character the churches OF
lChrist are seeking to build up the saloon
Is given the power to destroy; and II can
and viii pull dow faster than our
; churches can build up. Then, though one
demonstrate, as a decent man. when sa-
loon Is 70 be a licensed nearly always re-
lmonstrates-against the opening Of sa-
loon admitting his own property or next 10
his own home, he finds out too late, that
mis- vote has helped 20 open saloons next
II to somebody property, near somebody 3
home; and the morals, the safety the COM
fort Of the home are already jeopartized;
and often the sacred name home" itself
turned into a mOckery and lifelong re-
! greet
N / tell YOU men and friends. we do not al
! ways realize, when we talk of trying a
! liquor license law and legalizing saloons
lin Vermont how we should be intrenching
lin orr communities the chief monied pro-
] motor ~ intemperance, with all its mis-
cries; backed by almost unlimited fnan-
! cial resources IN brewery and distillery;
s a source Of public revenue which would
! leuslave us only less than the appetite enc
E slaves the drunkard; a public nuisance
< from which our streets are now clean
q centres Of crime which would quickly be-
3 gin 70 crowd our jails; a contempt for law
r 10 a degree at present quite foreign 70 our
o Estate, a force in politics which would cor
a rupt just when we are struggling TO rid
= ourselves of coTuption a law-conferred
K Respectfully in the bar room which would
3 set before our boys a form Of temptation
from which, thank God, they are now free
land SO. an areh-enemy To our churches
y land our homes. / have lived years where
C the high license system prevailed, ] have
l. lived where prohibition with a legal agen
/ cy has prevailed; and thiAk | may say
l. THAT I speak of what j know. NOthins
n lcould bind the people of Vermont so eftec
% lively 70 their present system as a few
a years-ur a single year-of residence II
le the average New England town that d
Il under the license system.
is Now my friends. that ii not all. Thos
ie Of you who have followed me with you
a intelligent assent, thus FAR, must feel
N laid very heavily upon your hearts am
" conscience by these stern facts your
I selVes not simply 10 do what In you lie
s. toward the retention Of our present anu
<. lS8i0un law upon the statute hVnhht VA
X to see to II that men are put back of thi
81 law and Of an laws; and then 70 let Their
le know that no sentiment and no polio
o. takes precedence Of this: We deman
ic obedience 20 Jaw.
Let us be honest about II. We some O
" lus believe I'm aw-enforcement-tll
n hurts us or our friends. OF this liQuo
r law. we are prone 10 say; We believe ]
in II. have always believed in II; but tact
le and discrimination should be used IN 1t
le enforcement. And that sounds very "a
"a ti0naL Yet what we mean by that, TO
N often. is that people OF respectabilit
"a should not be antagonized even II they d
in break the law that the detective method
to which a sound morality always Justine
to when used against low criminals Shout
be not be used 10 bring to Justice offender
lt OF high social rank or political influences
n But, friends, that is a most dangerous ser
j. timent TO harbor. There is only one just
is Unable exception to obedience TO law, an
rs its impartial enforcement and that Is tn
h. right Of revolution and the end Of gov
IN lernment
s There is only one motive. one principle
h THAT can help us rise above all this pei
d. sonal antagouism. when law hurts US
"a and that is the supreme law OF unselnsh
ish benovolence-Thou shalt love IN
in lneighbor as thyself.-When man get
IL where he can say. now whatever l my
oil should prefer. the community iuterest-ir
$ volvinE this multitude Of my noighbur'
" my fellowmen-is greater far than my ind
ii lvidual interest. and though they clash 10
he a time, the two are wrapped up insepara
q hly together then an this petty indiHl
* Idualism. which Is curslng society so, 70
him viii fade away As honest citizens
Of " rejoice-we must reioice-that men VIII
in are able TO pudge. are saying of tnis anu
saloon law: I'VE have tray elled owe
IL Vermont for years and we have never be
III fore seen the State as free from the sal
stand use 90 intoxicating liquors." ana tbs
az some Of our newspapers have been aole {
~ say: with this impartial enforcement Z
ne the law, and all the laws, fairly and fun!
the people Of Vermont every week" Eve
81 its most active enemies, whose complain
81 has often been: This law is such that
: Lrannat he enfnrced." lave chanEed the