News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1903-01-28
Prohibition VS.. high License.

To the News ana CItIZen:-
Wish to reply to some arguments
that are being passed around
through the newspapers of Vermont
in relation TO the High License Local
Option law, which the voters of this
state are to vote upon Feb. B.
Ole is the advice of a bishop, who
says we had better vote for this high
license law, for if we do not we shall
have to live under the prohibition
law two years longer, and the officers
OF the law do not execute it and it
makes people liars and dishonest.
Now | wish to ask, shall we as a
people repeal law that seeks to re-
strict the sale Of liquors to be used as
beverage, when liquors used to
excess Cauees seventy-hve per cent of
all crimes committed in this country,
and shall we substitute it with high
license law to please few who wish
to make money out of the public, to
the destruction of moral goodness
and christianity?
Now my advice to this holy Bishop
is, if his parish will not receive "A
good temperance gospel, to do as ST.
Paul did when the Jews turned him
out Of their tabernacles; he shook
their dust from his feet and went and
preached the true gospel to the Gen
tiles.
Another argument that is passed
is that high license law will bring
more business into the state. No
doubt it will, and of very fferent
kind. The money that is now used
to educate, feed and clothe our fami
lies, will much of it be used to make,
and CRAFTY the drinking mans appe-
title for lum, to the destruction of
himself and the disgrace of his family.
and he himself will become a nuisance
to society.
We should have to build more jails
and pOOrhouses and raise more taxes
to support the poor and a police, for
this is the kind of business that
high license always brings to places
where they have it.
This Bishop who advises US to vote
for high license is to be pitied. His
parish is probably largely composed
of the foreign element and he wishes
to please them. They want their beer
and rum and the Bishop wishes to
please them to save his bread and
butter.
We hear great cry about the evils
of the prohibitory law. This law
was enacted to prevent the drunken
ness, crime, wickedness and sorrow
that was caused by the sale of rum
to be used as q beverage. This law
has been fairly well executed in rural
towns in the State. Now because
there are a few towns that are
peopled largely by foreigners who
have the liquor habit formed, and a
class of men like Clement who are
low in moral development and who
think of nothing higher than ways
making money, | say, shall these
rural towns who have the moral
courage to enforce the Prohibitiory
law, suffer for the evils thet grow out
of the licensed saloons to crafty the
morbid appetites and greed of such a
class of men? God forbid.
HFOl y "uh anu WOu1du WHO lives
to the age of thirty we'll knows that
they must develop the spirit of the
mind in order to control the passions
and appetites of the body. We read |
that " The flesh wars against the
spirit and spirit against the flesh, so |
we must work our own salvation with |
fear and trembling" Jesus raised the |
standard for US when he said " Be We |
perfect as your father in Heaven is |
perfect" wish every voter in Yer.
mont would remember what the great |
preacher said: Now let us hear the |
conclusion of the whole matter: Fear
God and keep his commandments, for
every work shall be brought into |
judgement, and every secret thing,
whether it be good, or whether it be |
evil"
The liquor question is great |
moral question, and is disturbing the
lives and minds of millions of people |
in all christian nations. Now | ask
the voters to study this question and
vote honestly, for our votes will affect
the condition of thousands of people
in Vermont and thousands yet I'M
porn. 5. SLOCUM,
Morrisville. Vt, Jan. 10, 1908.