Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1903-01-09
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Political Points Of Interest Gathered From
the Local Field.


the Local Field.
In other words, let us have practl-
cal restriction where an open VIOLATION
exists. -Vergennes Enterprise.
The trouble with Vermont is she has
prohibition but no prohibitionists. NOT
even the prohibitory law will enforce
itself. -Fairhaven Era.
What we should like to do is to pre-
vent them from drinking more than
they require. And license supervision
is a big help in that way. --Vergennes
Enterprise.
What chance there is going to be
the next 30 days for the Vermont poll
tician to blow hot and blow cold over
prohibition and license. local option. -
Fairhaven Era.
The prohibitionists fired the opening
gun at Burlington and told the experr-
fences that some other state had with
licensed saloons for ID years. Now let
someone who knows the facts tell ABOUT
the past ID years amongst the unii-
censed saloons of Vermont. Barre
Telegram.
The legalized sale of alcoholics in
Vermont for year amounts to $500, 90: :
so, or with the figures reduced to mai
viduals, every man, woman and lnfaht
consumes S1.O3 worth of liquor dur ing
wear, Those are, of course, the hg-
ures of the town agency system. what
the amount of consumption is outside
the agencies it is impossible to state,
but it is fair to assume that the
amount is vastly more than that sold
in the legalized places. Barre Times.
The legalized sale of alcoholics in
Vermont for year amount to $500, :
725. so, or with the figures reduced to
individuals, every man, woman ana
infant consumes 81. 03 worth of liquor
during year. Those are, of course,
the figures of the town agency system
What the amount of consumption is
outside the agencies it is impossible
to state, but it is fair to assume that
the amount is vastly more than that
sold in the legalized places. Barre
Times.
The high license local-option refer
endum is receiving due consideration
in all directions and the 'store court
has no other subject of the Importance
of this. 1t is we'll. Get posted all
YOU can by hearing the opinion OF 9th
ers, and, best of all, by studying the
question in all it's details. Do pow
erful lot of thinking and mediate Sc
riously upon the question and then de-
eide which is best-the law as 1T now
is or that proposed by the new meas
ure. -Morrisville News.
Prohibition does not prohibit; nor
does it satisfactorily regulate. The
present law tends by its extreme and
inquisitorial provisions, to bring all
law into discredit and the courts into
disrespect 1t invites perjury and an
attendant train of evils. The people
| have been growing more and more res
stive under its administration. Why not
have something else? If the proposed
! license law does not serve our purpose,
we can again embrace prohibition. by
adopting license law we are not mar
red to it forever. Hon. Q. M. Bar
| Der.
II all the stories concerning the un-
restricted sale of liquor in various
Vermont towns and cities are true,
and few of them are denied, things are
| in deplorable condition. Anti-saloon
workers are evidently afraid to insist
on prosecutions because it might make
"yes'' votes at the referendum, and
! high license advocates are smiling at
the thought of mo- votes growing
fewer because of the inefficiency OF
the prohibitory law. After things are
settled, for the good of Vermont, let
us have a decent execution OF whatever
law is in force. Montpelier Journal.
How, then, shall we answer the ques-
ton shall we license the open sa-
loon? We dislike to answer yes, it is
revolving to our ideas of good morals,
but under the existing conditions we
cannot answer no. We will then answer
by saying that of the two evils we ac-
cept the lesser. Let us restrict rum
selling what we may under license
law rather than allow it longer to be
sold promiscuously under the prohibit
| ton law. Those responsible for the
| law ask us to retain it but they have
done nothing to strengthen it and I'M
til they do, until they make the pen
atty for breaking it at least equal to
the penalty for dealing in imitation
butter every temperance man, and wo-
man too, in Vermont should repudiate
it. Brandon Union.
The Barre Times allows that "the
conditions that obtain in Barre are no
different than they are in the other
large cities and towns of the state, in
Guiding, no doubt, the village of Wood
stock itself. Under the present regime
there is practically no check to the
large centers of population and conse-
quently the rum sellers flourish. Why
then should they wish for change to
system which promises to restrict il
legal selling? There is no reason. On
the contrary there is every reason for
them to wish for a retention of the pro-
hibitory law" The Times is pretty
nearly right as to the conditions pre-
vailing throughout the state. And the
rumsellers' enthusiasm for prohibition
passes as Jealous work for temperance.
Woodstock Age
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