News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1903-01-14
THE OLD GREEN MOvNrAIN STATE.
A Worthwhile Citizen Expresses his Opin-
ion on the High License Question.

us by our Fla hers, shining monu-
menU TO her sister states and to the
world. During the half century no
saloon has distgured her fair name.
But a state of lethagy seems to have
come over the great ma )rity of her
people. Temperance people, | mean,
for no good citizen will dispute the
fact that a large ma jority of the vot-
ers of our state stand for temperance.
A few INSCRIPTIONS men have taken
advantage and have succeeded in
carrying out their designs to that
extent that they have captured both
the Senate and House by thesmallest
majority and now it il for the voters
of the state to decide this mOmen-
tous question. Then awake and
come out in your strength on the
side of right. Can any honest tenn
perance man make a mistake? No,
he cannot nor will not vote for the
saloon. To do that is to acquiesce
in giving a few unprincipled men the
right to deal out a commodity at an
immense profit, which makes a man
an inhuman monster, dethrOnes his
reason and makes him a raying
maniac. His children are clothed in
rags, and in many instances his wife
looks forward to death a. a welcome
release to her sutf9Tngs. 1t gives him
the right to increase pauperlsm
and insanity to break up homes
without restriction and send an ur-
limited number both old and young
to drunkards graves.
No picture, however dark it may be
drawn, can depict the terribleness,
the rottenness, the degradation, with
all the attending evils combined,
which follow in the wake of the Ii.
censed saloon. Ga the other hand
we only have to stand firm on the
prohibition platform with one idea
ever before US. To raise the stand
ard OF temperance and right still
higher and see tOit that our representa-
tives in the Senate and House are
temperance men, who will not desert
tbestandard, and we may rest assured
that the law governing the use OF
liquor will continue to be an honor
to the state. Defects will be remedied,
but never until the saloon is buried
so deep that it can never be resurrect-
ed. Then sobriety and prosperity
will continue to advance and our
fair state will still keep her place at
the head of the nation the leader in
war and peace and, above all, the
Oldest and brightest temperance star
j,h
to briefly call your attention TO the
greatest trouble attending our pro-
hibitory law. The fact that our state
is bounded on every hand by licensed
saloons, making 1t an easy matter
for our poor sick men, who choose to
be their own physicians, to procure
their medicine. This, to great ex-
tent explains the trouble in suppress
ing drunkenness, but better times are
coming. Stand firm and have no
fears. In a short time our sister states
will rise in their might and throw off
the terrible savage that is SO swiftly
bearing them on to destruction. In
the Province of Ontario, although
they are not quite out of bondage,
the llRuU Vi udy is DFedklDR.
An act toprohibit the sale of liquor
was passed by the Provincial legis-
lature in Ontario, subject TO the will
of the people to make eff-ctive The
Legislators were not willing Ito ac
cept mere majority, but stipulated
that the number of votes cast in it's
favor must be greater than one-half
the votepolled in 1898, and although
the inclemency OF the weather pre-
vented, to a great extent, the voters
coming from the rural districts,
majority of 80 ,526 was given forpro-
hibition, nearly every city giving a
good ma ority. The Is cities, aver
aged together, gave a total of 1894
in favor of prohibition and although
defeated for time, the yoke of bond
age has been loosened and only q
short time intervenes before the
shackles of intemperance will be
thrown off and the saloon with all
it's terri ole influences will be no more
in the Province of Ontario.
So let us be true, tor right is right
and must prevail. Woman's suffrage
has been ruUhlessly trampled upon in
reference to this vital question, for
we'll the opposing element knew a Ii
cense law would not stand a ghost of
a chance had they not done this; but
as long as time shall last the fair wo-
men will not forget the injustice to
them, but we may rest assured their
influence will ever be on the side of
temperance Voters take their advise
and our state will be safe, for | do
not believe there is a woman who
would voluntarily vote to increase
the use of Intoxicating liquor as
beverage.
In closing | wish to quote from the
courageous young Attorney Folk of
st. Louis, who has succeeded in break.
ing up second Sweed ring in that
city and the words are taken from
his great speech which convinced the
jury and convicted the millionaire,
the leader of the ring. | shall apply
them to this great issue, believing
they are.applicable. "This great issue
will live as long as the memory of
man shall run and your verdict will
have itsinhuence until dynasties have
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