Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1902-12-25
eating liquor to sharpen his wits.

few in numbers Many who had con-
tracted it have abandoned 1t to hold ana
obtain business. Men generally will not
employ an attorney nor a doctor who Is
known to be addicted to the use Of intox-
eating liquor. The same is true OF com
mercial statesmen. Wholesale merchants
Will not employ them IL they know they
are given to Its use. There Is hardly
calling in the State in which young man
VINO is known to have the drink habit can
!1nd steady employment. or in which he
can expect to succeed. The farmer, the
managers of steam and electric railroads.
of manufactures, the business man, none
OF them want him and most of them Will
not have him If they know of his habit.
Even those who violate the law by &C.
cretly selling or furnishing intoxicating
liquor seek only strictly sober. temperate
young men to do their unlawful work.
think 1t Is a safe statement that there
are not one-thrd as many men in the
State who habitually drink Intoxicating
li1uor as there were when the prohibit
tory law went into operation. But yet one
of the principal arguments for a change
is that the Drohbitory law does not pro-
hibit No criminal law prohibits. IN the
sense that II stops the commission OF fhe
| crime 1t Furnishes. The law against steal
| Ing or murder or adultery or gambling
| does not stop the commission of either
these crimes. They restrain, to a greater
sonal gain is the motive which leads to
the violation of the law against stealing
rhe same motive leads to the violation
of the prohibitory law, forbidding the
manufacture and sale of Intoxicating
| liquor for a beverage. The fact that the
| prohibitory law is violated Is no reason
why it should be superseded by high
license, local option law. The proposed
high license. local option law bristles
with penalties. Personal gain will urge
as sharply to its violation as to the vio-
lation of the prohibitory law. and more
strongly. BY the prohibitory law traf-
| fc in intoxicating liquor for drinking
purposes is outlawed No one can law
fully engage in tho traffic. Tho penal
ties fall alike on all who engage in it.
Tic high license law legalizes such traf-
fc and confers on certain persons the
right to secure the gain to be derived
from 1t. Why should favored few. for
4 consideration even. be given this right,
to the exclusion of all others? The 9TH
ers will necessarily reason: '1f the traf-
fic Is lawful for the licensed 1t ought to
be for US. The licensed ought not to be
allowed to profit from the traffic and we
be punished for engaging in 1t" History
shows that violations Of high license
laws excel in frequency. No payments
for intoxicating liquor illegally sold can
be enforced under the prohibitOry law,
and payments made can be recovered
back.
The high license law makes intoxicat-
ing liquor commodity Of traffic, and
enforces payments for all sales of It, even
tn taking a mans farm or other attacha-
BILE property. No open saloons nor
dives can lawfully exist under the pro-
hihitorY law. Under the high license law
places of sales are kept open to the obser-
walton of all passers by. The boy may
see his father or others at the bar par
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have his desire excited to be an imitator
Of them.
Contemporancously with the prohibi-
tory law savings banks sprang up all
over the State. In the amount of these
deposits per capita of the population, the
State surpasses all other States. In intel
ligence. in thrift. in sobriety, in freedom
form. crime the State may we'll challenge
comparison with any high license, Local
option State, Why change from the pro-
hibitory to the high license. local option
policy? Why not let well enough alone.
Certainly it is incumbent on those who
urge the change to establish that thereby
the conditions in the state will be i'm
proved in thrift, in intelligence. in so
briefly. and in morals. They urge tina
the prohibitory law has features for it.
enforcement different from and more
exacting than those which apply tc
other criminal laws. SO has the pro
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