St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1902-12-17

Medtord. 2S.12 1925
Pittsfeld, 90 25 3675
Salem $40 so 2963
Brockton in 1897 voted no license and
made 435 such arrests and A for as.
saults. In 1898 under license there were
1927 such arrests and 80 for assaults.
In 1899 under no license there were 455
such arrests and Sc for assaults.
He gives other like comparisons and
says: Such comparisons might be multi
Piled showing hat more than two, htths
OF the paupersm in the state is attribut
able to drunkenness, at least one-tourth
the cases OF insanity, and that without
including the crime ofdrunkenness, intern
perance is responsible for one.half the
remaining crimes.
He says: II the closing of saloons I'M
der no license vote reduces open drunken
ness thrt e-tOurths it must have diminish
ed somewhat proportionately the bur
dens OF pauperlsm, insanity and crime.
The costs OF pauperism per capita in
1901, in Quincy voting no license was
90 cents; in Chicopee, in Marlboro
and in Newbury port voting license was
per capita respt ctively 81 %, ST. and
SLIT. He gives many other statistics
having the same general bearing. H S
statistics show conclusively, to any
thinking, reasoning man, that the
| amount received for licenses will not de-
tray one-tenth of the expenses brought
upon community BY high license law.
What is a high license law? Nothing
more than law to put the licensee under
| heavy bonds to sell all the Intoxicating
liquor as beverage, that he can. The
icensee takes the license to make money,
10 do this he must sell enough to paw ex-
penses, the license and a profit. Viewed
from every standpoint, it necessarily fol.
lows that much more intox ca ting liquor
will be sold for drinking under a high
license, local option law, than under the
prohlbitory law. This is why the
Wholesale liquor dealers everywhere
want 1t enacted; why they-if what is
creditably reported is trut-have con.
tiibuted one hundred thousand dol
lars TO the high license campaign in this
state; why they are trying to have re-
pealed tie prohibjtory law in the three
northern New England states. Under
the proposed high license law the state
by receiving the license, becomes a part
rer in the sale OF the debasing drink.
This is very Objectionable. Pauperism,
insanity and crime are not the only bur
dens lnt.mperance brings upon commun-
| ity. Any one who examines into the
| primary cause OF divorces will find that
ntemperance is such cause of more than
onl-hali the divorces. Parents divorced,
wnere incompetence is the primary cause
usually have children, and are without
property. The children are deprived of a
steady home, 'ose the care and control oil
one parent, drit and float in community
supply the poor houses, the reform school
and become recruits 10 the criminal class.
They come to feel that every mans hand
is against them and their hand must he
against every man. Then, too, intem.
psrance shurtens the lives OF those who
become slaves If the drink habit. How
many bright, generous and otherwise
useful persons, who would be helpful tC
society. can every one count up. who
have by the drink habit cut short Their
lives, when otherwise they would be al
tie height of II Guinness. Half or more o
the murders are committed by person,
who have no malice against the murder
ed person, and who commit the muir
derous act while intoxicated. The his
tory OF murder trials in this state tor tn
last thirty years will more than establish
this statement
The worst feature of the dunk habit i
that 1t destroys the power of the will
Inc man cannot resist the temptation
to drink. lie will give you his solemn
promise that he will drink no more. Hi
. promise would be sacred and kept.
. gwen on any other subject. He intend
to keep 1t when he gives it, but will b
! drunk in an hour ii temptation offers
= What can more blltttle man in his oW,
estimation than to realIza that he is no
bigger than glass OF whskey? This /
! one OF the saddest results of the habit
The proposed high license law would en-
, courage its formation. True it forbid
: the sale OF Intoxicating liquor to a miuo
and the convicted drunkatd, but it ma
be sold to him until the habit has becom
t irresistible. What a mockerv. Bette
5 not start the fire, than to kindie it, am
e commence to quench it af err the house
} burned up; after the mans power of sell
. control IS gone, his physical, intellectua
5 and moral nature paralyzed, and he
. out OF normal conditions. Man undo
2 the inHu me- of Intoxicating liquor is
4. man out OF gear! The human system
Y the most wonderful, delicate, nicely ac
. justed piece mechanism known to MAJ
, Intoxicating liquor surely throws it GU
T. OF gear, ana renders its action abnorma
D 1t is shown in the staggering walk, sill
t tongue, uncertain action of the brain, i
t the exercise OF judgment, ofwill power; i