Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1904-02-08
w. G. T. u. COLUMN.
LICENSE A FAILURE.

Inc auuleuco pFOOapIy uu uOeEluS foO.
The occasion was the monthly Sun
day evening temperance meeting
which has recently been ina ugurated.
The opening exercises were con-
Quoted by the Rev. Mr.. r aed, the pas
tor of the church, and the first speak
er was the Rev. Guy Lampson, the
shepherd of the Baptist fl Dck. Mr..
Lampson handled his subject without |
gloves, and h cid the close attention of |
the great audience. He maintained |
| that the ante election claims of the |
/ license advocates had utterly failed |
of fulfilme Mt, and cited large num-
Der of facts to demonstrate his state
ment. In the year antedating the Ii
cense regime the number of United |
States federal tax receipts given to |
| Vermonters was but 1i6, while this |
year 773 had been issued. AS only $50
state licenses had been gran ted, in
Guiding those allowed to druggists, it
was evident that there was large
amount of Illicit selling now, thing
|
tanned would not exist under license.
The number of cases of intoxication,
taking the time as whole, had also
very much increased, and Montpelier
had had 200 during 1908, as against 81
in 1902 In addition to this, man after
man who had before successfully
battled against the Indictment to
drink had been overcome by the
temptations of the open saloon, dur
ing the past few months, as the
speaker we'll knew.
1t was also claimed that under Ii
cense, it would be im pos sible for
minors to secure liquor, and a local
paper had recently claimed that there
had been but one minor before the
city court. Mr.. Lampson called the
attention of the paper to the fact that
one time last June. A young man
under twentyone told him that, on
any day, he could get all he wanted to
drink or give away between Taplin's
i
same street Mr.. Lampson said that
o he found note which young lady
wrote to Louis Wood, saying that she
, had 45 empty pint bottles and that
she wished him to come and get them
and refill them with one half alcohol
O and one half whiskey, thus showing
- that the women as we'll as the men,
O. were acquiring the drink habit.
1t had also been claimed that the
It old law bred hypocrisy, and that the
n new one would not, yet the reverse
a was the case with the present law, as
Il some officers would claim to be doing
their full duty, and yet evade the in
@ tent of the law. In one instance
= deputy sheriff carried man away in
g his sleigh rather than arrest him, and
n in several cases, where a man had
= been fined for intoxication once, he
ia would be arrested for breach of the
1t peace the second time, as the fine fol
d that offence was less.
e One claim to induce vote for Ii
20 mess, but canvass of the business
,e places of the city showed no such re-
l. suits. One barber shop and one othel
ar place of business claimed an increast
r. for this cause, no one else; while
10 many of the business men admitted ;
loss in receipts.
] The claim that the law would be
* great revenue producer was also re
N futed, and the figures from variou
ut places were abducted in support o
ut the denial of the speaker.
o. Mr. Lampson also declared that h
ne had been told by reputable docto
be that, in eight months of license, six
ne teen men had laid down their lives a
10. the result of drink. No stronger in
MS dictment could be drawn against tn
he measure.
The speaker admitted that Their
% had been a marked decrease in arrest
the past two months, but declared
to be his opinion that this was largel
lin due here, as judge of the suprem
d. court declared it was elsewhere, to
he compact on the part of the saloo
'u, keepers with each other, as the
an an feared for the result in March if tt
ce, former average kept up. Last ye;
I'm the majority for license was near
"o 500. This year the most ardent b.
nd lever in the law did not dare estlma
is it to be over $50, and Mr.. Lampst
sed urged his hearers to so work al
y, vote as to entirely overcome this m
". iority and carry the city for n
hat license.
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