Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1902-07-04

STATE REGULATION.
The Montpelier Daily journal, one of
the leading Republican papers in Yer
mont, and the official organ of Gen. Nc
Cullough in Central Vermont, contained
the following interesting contribution to
to the discussion of this important ques-
ton in Its issue of June 25.
Respecting the traffic in Intoxicating
liquor and its regulation: All parties,
however they may differ in details, by
their action confess that the traffic is
fundamentally different from commence
in bread, clothing or merchandise of re-
lated character, which is unrestricted.
Tacitly, If not openly and in express
terms. the great majority of the people of
Vermont regard the unregulated traffic
in liquor and its habitual use to crafty
an appetite as moral, social and a
political evil, Just as half century ago
they similarly regarded slavery. The
liquor traffic cannot be treated as on a
par with trade IN onions or potatoes, no
more than could the buying and selling
of human beings. The controversy over
this traffic, and the right Of men to use
liquors with no greater restraint than is
imposed on selling or buying and eating
bread, after half century has come
again to this people without the direct
agency of the referendum. From now
on, till its final settlement, the browning
issue before the people of Vermont will
be whether the state shall continue it,
restrictive control of this traffic, OF
whether the traffic shall pass into the
hands of men whose sole object is tc
make money-and to make all the money
they can.
On the part of one class-and we be
lieve 1t is in the large majority-the sen
timent is that the unrestricted traffic II
spirituous liquors is wrong, vas
moral evll another class does not lool
upon the traffic from the same mora
point of view. Some in the latter elias:
openly defend the traffic, as some de
Tended the institution of slavery; some
in this class, recognizing the existence o1
the appetite for liquor, believe, or pro
fess to believe, that the better way t
control is to permit, to license, its sale
| The issue is between these two views o.
the traffic. One would rigidly restric
the traffic to certain specified uses; tn,
other would open it up to general use
that is to say, permit the sale of liquor:
to feed the appetite for drink. Tn
former Is the moral view of the matter
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