Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1903-01-12

| license men and the prohibitionists
will be about equally divided. The
contests will be sharp and the de-
feated side will be greatly dissatisfied
with the law in force. If the pro-
hibitionists prevail they will not be
able to enforce the law any better
| than they are now enforcing it, for
they will not receive the assistance
of the license men and every obstacle
| possible will be placed in the way of
enforcement. There may be no sa-
looms in the town but liquor will be
purchased elsewhere and brought
into town just as it is at present. If
the license party wins saloons will be
opened and the sale of liquor will be
commenced. What will be the re-
suit? Let US suppose that a saloon
keeper attempts to comply with every
provision of the law. In that case he
must refuse to sell to habitual drupk
ards or minors. The man who has
cultivated an appetite for strong
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has money with which to buy and if
he cannot purchase it at the saloon he
will get itEabout as he gets it at pres
ent. 1t is said that the prohibitory
law is the cause of many young men
becoming drunkards from their desire
to obtain strong drink simply because
it is forbidden them. If this is true
the license law must have the same
effect asIit forbids the sale of liquor to
minors. The license advocates claim
that under license those who have paid
for the fee to open saloons will see that
all who attempt to peddle liquor
around and sell it lin out-of the-way
places as it is sold under the prohibi-
tory law are closed out and obliged to
give up the business. But this is not
the case where license is in force. In
nearly every instance the saloon
keeper infringes on the law in SON e
manner himself and when he at
tempts ito stop his competitor who
is selling without license he is in
formed that if one is closed the other
will be. E In many instances the man
who is selling without license is pur-
chasing his liquor at the liz ensed sa
loon, in which case'the dealer has no
desire to prohibit the sales. 1t is said
that boys will go into a low dive and
obtain liquor .when they would be
ashamed to be seen going into sa-
loon. This argument would apply
for short time to a certain per cent
of our young people, but let the
saloons be maintained for some years
and some of the best citizens of the
town become accustomed to patroniz
ing them as they do in license town;
and the boys will then have no hesi
tation about frequenting them ano
many will acquire the drink habit
part of whom would have
, been safe had there been no open sa.
loon.
With the illegal sales continuing
under license the same as under pro
hibition and with the open saloon tt
help create an appetite how can any
} one believe that there will be les
liquor sold under license than is beiny
sold under prohibition? The write
recently noticed an account of tn,
arrests for intoxication in New Lon
don, Conn.,, city of about the sam'
size of Burlington, VT. New Londol
is license city and during the montl
of November thirty one arrests wer,
I made for intoxication. The SAM
! paper gave an account of the arres
I of man for intoxication and of hi
D committal to Jail in default of tn
3 wherewithal to pay fine of sever
I dollars. This man had been arreste,
, nine times in eleven months, eacl
Q time for intoxieation. Compare thi
a record with the cities of Vermont.
: If every citizen of Vermont VIII
: desires to have as little hquo
s sold as possible in the stat
2 viii vote against the license law
Q will be defeated. Before any tenn
s perance man votes in favor of tn
bin believing that there will be les
: liquor sold under it, be should as
y himself why it is that those wht
9 desire liquor to drink, the ones VIII
f wish to sell it for gain, and those
l who are anufacturing il
are all opposed to a prohibitor.
a law. If more liquor is sold under
a prohibitory law than under icens
Q why are all of these men opposed t
: prohibition?
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