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

there is in the business for the dealers,
Will be the power back Of the saloon bust
ness and extending it. Under the present
system that is not SO. However much the
town agency sells, the element Of private
gain is not in the business. And what
comes Of that? Liquor is sull sold in the
agency ard some out Of it, But how
much2 Before ] came 10 live in Burling-
ton my home was in a license town.
the town Of Norwalk Conn, has a popula-
ton but little larger than Burlington.
Conditions in the towns are very much
alike There were about 90 licensed sal
oons in Norwalk. According 20 the mod
crate estimate Of one Of the saloon-keep-
ers themselves, the average daily sales in
those saloons was SIS each. That is $500
day our liquor agency sells perhaps
s35 worth "a day; S35 against $500. In
year the agency sales would amount to
S1U500. part Of which is drugstore business
under the license system. In town that
has 20 saloons selling IS worth a day, in
one yelr the saloons alone sell $4,000
worth OF liquor; $1,000 against $50. 01o.
Does anyone for one moment imagine that
the present Illegal sales in Burlington, ~
the bottle and I'm low dives, amount to the
difference between these two,-more than
$4,000 worth2 or one half of it2 or
fourth Of it? And the license town has
its Illegal sales too; We should never Tor
get that
Then. the public revenue curse. Men try
to balance this enormous waste Of money
spent in saloons, money spent not for
wealth but for the greatest destroyer or
wealth known to our modern CIVILIZATION
| by talking of the gain from license rev.
enues 10 State and towns. From the
standpoint of the man who cares 70 re-
Ipress intemperance, that Is one OF the
strongest arguments in favor Of the pres
] FEa..Fa Ia M
! greed added u the power Of appetite
Next 10 appetite, the worst bondage oil the
Iliauor towns is the license money they
have got used TO, and fancy lessons their
taxes And what does such system
lhave 10 set over against the saloon rev.
Ienue2 The fact that the revenue comes
mot from the liquor seller, but from ms
customers, the eonsnmersi-cheny lhe
lvoung men and the worlSingmen OF the
Iulace and their families-the very people
lNho can least afford TO pay more taxes.
Besides that Some - times the amount
lof the tax taken ont Of the sales OF the
ltradesmen. the men who sell the boots
land shoes the groceries and meat the
Iclothing and furniture end fuel w eh
The saloons fatten these 90 lean BESIDES
Ithats The pauper bin and the criminal
court bil. multiplying as the saloon busl-
Iness Increases, that Is the regular record
N And. worst 81 an. the boys ruined whom
the revenue system would pay for in cash
II An omen saloon legalized and made out
lwardly respectable on every business
lbl0ck IN Burlington; 20, lo-even ilNe ooys
lfrom such homes as are represented mere
Ion yes, / have seen them I'm the saloons
from homes that would compare with ever
4 the best of yours)-boys playing billiards
,lin those saloons and drinking Just pc
! cause they are good fellows; ruined m j
i, lvears.-and for twenty to thirty thousand
1 a wear taxes. taken out Of their own pock
lets and the pockets of the rest who drlnh
/, There Would you fathers and mothers
think that a paying Investments
S Then, II Is a lesser point yet NOT uh
( worthy. as you viii admit that the hcens
,tsd sat6on everywhere becomes a publi
y nuisance. There Is drunkenness IN bufl
r Iinrton. Some of us have seen II. Yet
vthave lived now a year and hair IN huti
I, Iinpton and have been down town once O.
q twice nearly every day; and have Yet .
il see a drunken man ON the streets IN
q town that licensed saloons, that Woulu r
4 almost impossible Go 70 the Connecucu
!. town of which I spoke. any day TN
= week You would see two blocks IN IN
4 town on which nearly every store Is
i IUouor saloon. VIII respectable wome
4 and children walk on these blocks, II the
\ can help it2 Loafers hang about the sa
4 loon entrances: uncean sidewalks oathi
:: vile language are the common thlis
"A Fights occur every few weeks A uruhh
3 en- man on the street is common slsnt
!. sometimes il is q drunken woman. ~
worst section Of Burlington will not con
pare with one OF those blocks as a puoh
IS nuisance.
n Again: Localized saloons are commonl
! centres Of crime This is not necessarii
= so. But what Is the use Of talking or Gel
!. many or France. when we are living
Il America? In fact, in America, an Grim
I tends toward the saloon Trace back u
= origin OF nearly all public disorder an
: of the peace. You viii find it in the saloo
!. Note the location Of gambling resorts an
4 Immortal houses. They are generolly
! Ior near a saloon. start detective out
& search for a criminal He will go hrst
n the saloons Do you say, but there VIII L
! some hidden saloons anyway Yes, pe
y how many? and so how much crime con
i lparatively? Here are the figures OF or
; lminal arrests I'm five Massachusetts towr
which i'm ons year, 1899, voted no saIoor
Ii, and the next year voted saloons. fltct
g lburph. without saloons. 22l arrests, VII
n saloons 575; Lowell without saloons lH
y with saloons. 39S; salem. without q
i with. 729. Waltham, 10, 30, plymouth 1
r l05. So ii goes; crime and the leeehse
: saloon, hand in hand.
4 Again. one OF the gravest dangers
4 our country is lawlessness- anarchy.
q lis sometimes said Of our Vermont contr'
y of the liduor business, that il encourage
4 laWiessness There is nearly always laN
Ilessnsss where there IS liquor selling ~
= there IS not q source of lawlessness IN ~
y United states comparable to the legalize
4 lHauor saloon Let the liquor men spea
- for themselves as 10 this
~ Last year the National Advocate-one
{ the chief organs OF the liquor trade
y IOhio-used these words.
: ,Iu our meetings the saloon men mereI
4 demand rights 20 defy any man who sha
n impose upon them a law which IS agaln'
/. them such laws should be deiied. ms
: should be trampled in the dust, and u the
Il can not be revised, then we say il Is TN
uito become anarchists.
IN Whatever the State law is-it does u
n matter-that Is always the dominant att
4 tude 81 the liquor trade toward the laws
: lchinge them If you can; if not, brea
= them. You were an indignant last YES
n ana grieved beyond words at the murd'
m 81 President Mckinley. But alike the mu
: iderer himself and the anarchist sent
: ments that led him to commit that awf
= deed, were products OF the license
,e liquor saloon.
Again: The licensed saloon. where II g