Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1902-05-29
( ANTI-SAL00N LEAGUE COLUMN.
Note.-This column Is controlled directly BY
\ the Vermont Anti-sal0on League.
PROHIBITION OR LICENSE.
Text Of An Able Address by Rev. Geo.
n. Beard Of Burlington.

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talk Of our duty in even this great temper
ance ISSUE so called, and still TO be tenn
perate; possible, too to be temperate and
kindly ard, at the same time, absolutely /
true To ones own convictions. Here is an
issue that thrills and stirs because il Is an
issue Of life and death TO SO many. Yeti
that Is no reason why men should call one
another names because they differ in /
Judgment concerning it. To call a man a
rascal because he honestly advocates lleens- 4
ing saloons, or call another man fanatic
because he believes in prohibiting saloons |
adds neither light nor right 70 the discus |
sion At any rate the present speah er |
claims no monopoly Of either wisdom orl
/ goodness In the matter, either for himself !
or for any body Of men with whom ne may
agree ~ simply asks you men and women
/ who are used 20 judging with unpreJudlced
I judgments, and you who believe you ought
/ to Judge In that way not 10 shirk the ques-
ton, nor to suppose il necessarily settled
in your own minds; 20 keep on thinking
| about ii, and to be willing to hold 70 your
present convictions or else TO change your
minds. as reason and love for humanity
I may lead you. In these issues, which are
largely moral we cannot bec0me-We ought
not to want 10 become-consciences for one
another. But we are obligated every one
Of US. to use our own cOnsciences and with
! Gods help, TO make our support OF men
I and movements square with the judgments
Of our consciences, at whatever cost.
Another thing, il is well 10 discriminate
/ carefully. Although this matter OF lhs
saloon is so closely associated win that
other question Of individual abstinence
and although both 20 back at last for their
final test 10 the law OF love, or good VII
60 ones neighbor, the two questions are
/ different: and today we are thinking Sole
III Of the social problem Of the saloon As
conscientious men we are bound 20 race the
personal question when i arises, ana $50
our duty personally from the ChtlsliaH
standpoint The personal duty Ok total az
| stinence seems clear and strong 20 many
Of u.s. But man may not himseA pe
7 total abstainer and yet may believe, hetLt
/ and soul In the abolition Of the drinking
saloon from our American society, a great
many do. The prohibition 0f saloons ln our
own state does NOT restof course, as many
would mislgad us e believe oh the tls7la
mat an drinking Ot intoXicanis . q eil'le
AS a social policy; q Z mater toI
lion. ID rests solely ON regard Tor tht e0lil
TniInItv welfare and the question - Simply
what does the best good of society ae-
In irving TO answer the question, shall
assume that we an know ana ADMIT lls
VAST evils 81 intemperance. THESE nav
touched too many Of our homes loI " -
be- ignorant Of them. And YET II ls haIu "
realize al an adequately what We an AhoN'
out ~ q1cg cases coming before the Grimm
al court Of the county in which l hNea
, fs,, wears ago, 3 Of the criminals We're az
stainers. IS moderate drinkers ana no ies7
than 1Sf1-sly-sevenths Of them-intempei
: ate men. Judges and luries eNeIyWAei,
. unite In saying. as the Chicago Bralu gs' :
. OF December, 1860. said: Al least ~ w.
cent ~ am criminal cases coming dlIeel4s
. L. saloon EnMnEcLAhAAs
Vet IL Is hard to realize that. fhy elil'
and guperintendents OF insane asyluhs ~
! - as the doctor IN charge OF one GA tIE
~ he institutions Of Massachusetts toiu NY
!, / n tear or two since. that from two 20 three
Z 6fths Of the insane sent to our asyluHls "a
, sent there because Of drink YET II Is -
! "a realize that nearly all OF the eNttel.
. ,,.,,.srt,, ~ our objects of charity, uhlol
!, / horrors of disease and accident perlec1N
rrsyentable: misery in broken homes am
\ blasted lives such as God only knows
4 ,bsss ana much else belong to the long 50
I tale of hard, undeniable facts apout "a
tendencies Of liquor drinking ana ING -
! amor traffic. Would TO God we couil te"'
re IT, .u III
And coming directly 10 the question, VIVA
ought we Nermonters TO do about II le
me saw. first that there are some tt4 w,
! which. il seems 10 me, We snould an
arreed about al the outset one - we
men are not made temperate oy le5Ls
live enactment Again ana again i.,S
3 tova helped men TO be temprate. SUI "
nr,nosltion that we cannothat wise lesls
80 MOI, into morality would seem aIihos
s.tf-c,-ident. were II not so often rtpeatt !
-, sort Of challenge Let us an say 'lli
D torather. a Christianized heart-hle' ~
,sGs,,5 So loved the world for ITS lnsPit =
tional power and Thou shall ~ 80,
neiehbor as myself for us cehslai ~.
ciple is Indispensable 10 t'ioi
, effective temperance. -. ,
Z Another thing pretty evident is that y
.,-sts,,, whatever Will wholly stup "a
5rinlirr OF intoXicants, Ihe hau.su y
dr,rl-ar,i win always find way 70 satlsl
= his depraved appetite; ana lntehs.'s
. fish people-Whether hahltual dIluAlis
4 not will care only TO please tieiliss.
/ ma Get what they want, whether or nv
4 tbis imperfect world our problem sehersa
/ - and certainly is in this case-hoW'
J,ts state al this time, Is TINS eNh I"
~ ~ race. reduceable 70 Its loves
y And then, it is hardly worth "nlle 20 ne
Z haze about the perfect Woihlhs II
present prohihitory law anu ae f.,
~, Frothings about this law resl,..
,.,..,rris, periury and lying OF eouIs
a .t az little with thoQghtIul petsv-.'
n =, is fr5,. with every law that II oflnss ny
: ,.olrisv ana kiue 10 the surface lnat
Il rcnsnicuously true Of high license law
II me- strength az crime-l6e tht stIsi,s
e - sin Is always the law. but the laul'
y wv y-itb the law on that account ~ +
n I'm me crime. And man VINO VIII =
Il " ~ his drink, or TO sell his hqu'L' ~, y,
!. IL whenever he thinks ms own
/, interest demands H. For ail thal, IN
= -, aqrsed that this law Is not peI.ee,'o y,
= ,Il,srf is no evidence that anyone ~
,ls,,t..l il to bring in the millennium ans
a t.;t,l question IS. Is any other law -
U ,cb better2 one thing IS true Oh n =
o. i,,rs they 90 not work themselEes;,
.'o-tn ~ a prohihitory law; the worth o.
's,,,,or agency. the worth Of every iils'i i,
,9an under the sun, is the worth q VI
| men hack Of it. .,,,,. omitted
-rbase things being generally -. -
II ,.ui ~, 10 give YOU now some ~ ~. -. 4,
sdns maj appeal TO me for doing our =
$50 a Keep the legalized saloon 80, ~
X-srr,ont and 10 continue the prolli,,.str
h,u, ygith its liquor agencies WI -.
iteas+er man high license is offered, l M
49, tbas, reasons very conciseiy' ~.
a. much argument They are nol en- .,'i,,
~. 9cSmatic. simply ask You 70 mn i,l.
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