Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1903-01-22
HALL HIGGINS.
Has His Say about High License ana
the Prospects OF Free Rum.
GTrom the ST. Johnsbury Republican,


Charley Walters:
When PurscY Clcmunt and his cullercd
quartit Of niggur singers cum to Santc
Jonsbury last summer and write peace
on to your paper about him and Square
Dunnit. my wife hannar says. says she,
Hail Higgins if you don't stop such non
senCc you'll gct Your mothers fool into
mess. liowsumevcr. hunnar is just an
ordincrv woman.
| have watched PurScy and his on
ward carcar togatllcr with the progress
of our new high licunse law with UNI
boundi1 JOY. noticed how Purscy
walked out of the Montpelier convon-
ton to Victcry; how ii purscy had had
seen more votes in the opening days Of
the lccislatur he would now be a bonnY
nduS govUruor | have seen the rise of
our high lisul,so measure and the up
rise.ns of tho populast and am in high
iY over the results.
! Have notiscd the downfall Of Judge
Ross and Joe I}dtel and the swift dis
tructon of their punishous liquer dock
time with fealiugs pcculive to myself.
Thousands of noble sitisens of our
state, as noble as mysealf watched with
uttir disgust the furnishings around i'm
oui last legislator of curt Emery and
H. Bailey and a handful of men as in
discrcat as thciryolves ana finally fall
to once. Shurcly we arc tasty drifting
backward to those good old progressive
days of city years ago. When New
england Rum reacedes to - cents per
gallon, as 1t sa-tnly will when Fred
Kcalcr ana the Avcrro House are in
rapid Compctishum with first class sa-
luues whore the Sitisous bank is now
located ana whore Arthcr Stone prints
his lauor then shall santc Johnshuy
blossllm like a rose. tho inpour Of trade
viii surprise the natives, clcCtriCh rIlt-
roads will aboundo and our streets will be
full of young men and madcna sent Ia
your town 20 complcat their cducashun.
our Nigh lisunse club had foudly
hoped that PurseY with his High
Santo JonSbry and pay square Duunit
one more visit and let Charly Calder
wood drum aior the crowd. but ALAS.
| asked squire Dunnit why purscy
didnt come round emmy moro now Just at
the time when on" of his powerful lee
tues on the referendum would multiply
the High Iisunsc. Yes votes. the square
would ask such simlul question.
When our iiigh iisunyc club found
ont for shurc that PurscY want 'umina
amy moro. and that our d"poudc ! ro
must depend on the Rutland hcarld
that CRATE apostil ana ENpoundcr Of ouI
. btlbNltl uDthlTlll' OF progress Hllu ''l'|
rights. also on the Sdintc Ahau:
Messenger the instigator of tho Erlt,
new docktrlnc of HIGH Lisuns" law
with the salunc left out we called ou
club 10 CGnVcan and rosolutc the follow
iup resolutions to wit, WIS;
Wharoas Drum barber has writ q
high Lisunsc letter onto the newspapers
hooking the stuffin ali our or the false
docktrnc of prohibition and doomed
our high Lisunso law.
ReaSolVcd that we accept Grimm to oul
hoSsom with dearest gratitude Huo
further lc it roasolvcd that should thci;
bo any more considerable falling off il
tho personnel ambishun of our I'urs">
then the scd Orium shall be our Grat'
Apostle. our flag shall bc nailed Ia hi.
mast. and he shall lead us to Nictry il
the near futur.
Wbarls commi,y Of i has solf ap
| pointed itself To- run things on it's own
| hook, to suppress hqnor lcslslation t.
defeat the will Of the people, 20 stol
the foe of Rum to drive out summer Wis
! itcrs 10 in every COnscaNahle name
! stop he great advancement of state Hoo !
to increase taXashun by preventing th'
! inGoc OF money into the trcaserY by run
/ hsunses and in ways too numerous f.
| mention Worh crate injury to our helovc'
common Wcalthc, be it Resolved that W.
| have no use for that spontaneous com
| nifty of -.
| Wharcas all the cX-govnors, most al
tho gospn preachers, all the teachers auC
schoolmarms College Purfcssers our del
| egashun in congress and several othcr
arc acn Us, h" it RcasolVcd that the,
stand in their own light, and sec through
glass darckly, if pcrchance they can Sc
at all.
Wharas the Frceprcss continuslY ant
pcrsistcntlN prints in grato Primmc
some Of our slips Of tongc and Pen, ho i
/ RcasolVed that the Sod FREQ press Is here
by fined 10 boilers and costs for eacl
subsequent offcns and be finally sur
| pressed.
! Wharas Prohibition does not prohibit
aud hereby hangs "A tail. Other laws d
pruhibet in fact all other laws prohibet
else state prisons and C0rts of justis
would 60 out of bisness, Look at tn