Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1903-04-02
VICTORY WITH NO VICTORY.
i'rom the Brattlcboro Phoenix

Victory with no victory! When bibu-
lous travellers in the Northeastern coun-
ties of the State looked over the map
and studied the election returns March
with a view to counting prospective GASES
In tho region named they found no green
spotS III Caledonia county, and only one,
Troy, in orleans county but in little Es-
SEX there were signs that liquid JOY
would be on tap in Brighton Gsland
Pond), Guidhall and Victory, the vote of
the lumber hamlet of 32l souls being q
Yes and ~ no. Visions of "A daily train
over the Victory branch, instead of one
running weekly or fortnghtly, floated be
fore the visions of rejoicing NictOrians,
and with an abundance of trout in the
streams and with booze flowing under le-
gal sanction there was every prospect
that Victory would become one of the
| parks which the Rutland Herald pic
| tured 50 cloqucntly. But the dream of
| bliss was over when it was discovered
| that two of the men who had voted yes
were not entitled TO vote, and when their
ballots We're thrown out the result was
| a tic. 1913. 1t may he a dry summer
| in Victory, but those who pine for wood
land retreats and delusivc liquid concoc-
| tions in combination may find them in
Southern Vermont when the license conf
| missoners get to working in Somerset
which voted 10. and Stratton, which
voted 1914, on the question of license.
CRUSADE AGAINST COFFIN NAILS.
G'rom the Montpelier Journal)
Missouri has Joined Vermont and other
States in the legal crusade against Gig
| arctic selling to persons under Is years
of age A bill to this effect has passed
the House and Senate and is now in the
hands of the governor.
LICENSE COMMISSION PROBLEMS.
| Urom tho Rutland NewsD
The problem before the Rutland license
| commissioners is somewhat difficult. 1t
IL to award eleven licenses to 50 appli-
cants and have everybody satisfied, This,
| of course, cannot be done. But the great
body OF their constituents, the disinter-
| ssted public, will be well satisfied with
their work II they distribute the licenses
| to those applicants who give best prom
Use Of strictly obcying the law. and in
such manner that the evils of public
drinking places be reduced to the mini
mum.
Tho Local Option Mask Served Its Pur-
pose Well.
Urom the Randolph Herald)
During the referendum campaign we
were told that the question was not as
to licensed saloons at all but was
merely the matter of giving to each city
and town the right OF settling the issue
FOR itself; that very many would vote
Tor local option who would never vote
yes when 1t came to their own town,
Yet we have seen how nearly 80 of Yer
monts cities and towns with n consiI-
cradle majority of the population voting
'yes,' and 1t is noticeable that as a rule
the voting this month followed very
closely along the lines OF the voting in
February. SO 1t was not "A mere abstract
proposition in government. to wit. the To-
cal option principal. per Sc, that the vot-
ers were imbued with, but moro tam
gible desire, to wit. that OF the chance
to buy liquor right at home under sane
ton OF law, Local option was merely