Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1903-10-09
OUR LICENSE COMMISSIONERS.
What the Newspapers Have to Say
About Their PIucky Action.

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About Their PIuoky Action.
Every good citizen of Vermont must
applaud the Brattleboro license COM
missioners. They have done their
: duty fearlessly and eourageously and
In that respect are an example for all
the license commissioners of all the
towns that grant licenses in the state
If the local option law Is to live 1t must
, be enforced everywhere as 1t is in
Brattleboro. And why not? There
Is ample opportunity to get liquor
from dealers who will obey the law
and those who will not obey it should
, be stopped summarily. Licensed deal
ers must be held to account. I'm
licensed dealers must be sent to Jail.
Liquor commissioners, do your duty
Burlington News.
The action of the Brattleboro license
commissioners in revolving the licenses
of three hotels and one bottling con-
Germ is to be commended. The cause
of this action was the proved sale of
liquors to minors at each of the four
places and employment of minor at
one place. The action Is especially
gratifying to the true friends of the
local option law, who have claimed that
the present law was superior to the old
prohibitory statute IN controlling the
sale of liquor. 1t IS certain that this
decisive action by the Brattleboro
board must have good effect through
out the state. The severity of the pun
ishment may be realized when 1t is re-
called that the licenses had more than
six months to run; that the holders can
never again be granted a license in the
state. and also that fines for the viola
ton are to be collected. Moreover,
the commissioners had the nerve to re-
woke the licenses the day before the
opening of the Valley fair.-Springfield
! Republican.
Hats off to Charles Fl. Davenport |
and the Brattleboro license commits !
sioners, who had courage to perform |
a plain duty in revoking the licenses |
of the four Brattleboro saloon keepers |
who violated the terms of their licenses |
| by selling liquor to minors Their en- I
tire paraphernalla is useless property |
on their hands, their license fees are |
not returnable they can never again |
engage in a similar business in YER
mont as under the old law, and each is |
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having violated the law. It's wonder
full how things have changed since the
good old days OF prohibltion.-Barre
Telegram.
Brattleboro licensees are up against
the real thing in license commissioners.
II would be better for the license law
and better for the public II the COM
missioners in every license town in the
state were of equally good stun.
In this connection. Just make this
guess: II the Bratueboro commission
ers had been doing business In Rut-
land. how many license holders in this
city would have their doors open to-
day? And consider only these few
simple violations, too: Selling out of
class, to minors, to men already drunk
en-. after hours, and on Sundays.-Rut-
land News.
And now the Brattleboro liquor deal ,
ers are in trouble ana are liable to lose {
their licenses. II they have been SELL s
ing to minors. as alleged. they ought ,
to be deprived of further privileges /
and that right speedily. {
Every day 1t is becoming more appar-
ent that it would be easier for a camel ,
TO thread needle in the kingdom of I
Heaven than for rumseller TO keep |
within the limits OF the law.-St. q
Johnsbury Republican. G
Their treatment may appear harsh I,
to the Brattleboro men who have been /,
deprived of theft licenses by the license !,
commissioners because they were ;,
shown to have sold to minors. That
they shall not so sell is one of the pro-
visions of the law and license holders
should be on their guard for their own
protection. License holders and their
employees may be deceived by minors
to be of full age but that is
their fault or misfortune. The law is
plain and they should be certain before s
making sales that they are not violat- h
ing it-Montpelie- Argus. h
The men in control of the license sit h
uation in Brattleb.ro are evidently not fe
Of the too common easy going sort ic
Herald. n
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The revoking of the licenses was $,
and nerited punish te
ment for violation If the law and will OF
do more to cure the Irregularities that II
are thus early beginning to be practis- o,
ed in licensed towns than broadslde q,
Of complaints from tie public.
has a board of commission dj
ars that believe in the law and want to h,
see it put to fair ties, Rutlands board va
1n the other hand are making a shut CO
lecock of IL, to the di:gust of the tenn TT
perate and intelligent portion of the m
The acton of the form a
sr will help it to remain upon the stat or
ate books, that of the latter will help tn
t into oblivion. Frieids of the law fiji
want to see to 1t that tie law is lived tn
up to for If it is not and violators go M
inpunished as in prohibition days
here will come a day ofreckoning and of
he northumberland license will be for i'll
,ver doomed in Vermoit.-Fairhaven mi
era. by
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penalty and the commissioners could tn
lot well have done different, but had ex
hey been disposed to have juggled sa
With the facts and with he law they no
night have deferred actin by one Gu
nakeshift and then anotheruntil in the in
nd justice would have ben defeated. lay
But they acted promptly AMI should be vel
commended. For surely me of the ha
neanest and most contemuible ways JUG
n which a license holder an misuse ers
is privilege to sell rum is to sell to us
minors. As a rule the appetite Of this pla
In CO g NOT dayaloneI sufficient RI to