The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1904-04-18
TEMPERANCE MEN
DISPENSING LIQUOR
The Rev. F. A. Poole Tells Of Method
Of Handling Trade in United
Kingdom.

A temperance man selling liquor in a
licensed saloon was the picture which the
Rev. +. A. Poole drew at the evening ser.
vice Of the Congregational church yester-
day, bis address being the second In a Sc
ries on Possible and Practical Temper
ance Reform The subject Of last even
ing's address was The Peoples Refresh
ment Association, as seen 10 England
In introducing the subject the speaker
told Of a conversation which he had with
a fellow clergyman soon after the city Of
Barre had voted to legaize the sale Of H.
quaT. lie had said, partly in Jest and
partly 10 earnest, that IL was for them to
apply for the license to sell A majority
Of the citizens had voted for the sale Of
liquor, and the two questions before the
people were: Who shall run be saloons
and how shall they be rune And, de-
elared the speaker, why should not the
temperance people apply for ths licenses,
and getting them, sell in the interest Of
temperanoe2 They, he said, are not re-
sponsible for the vote legalizing the sale,
but the vote having been taken, they are
responsible ID seeing that the saloons are
run Ia the interests Of temperance. And
who can better run the saloons III the In
terests Of temperance than the temperance
men themselyes2 The only obiectors would
be those who wished to run the saloons for
their own profit and those who wished 70
drink to excess.
temperance men running the saloons,
said the speaker, Is practically what has
been tried in England since 1896, the
scheme being based on the Gothsnburg
and Scandinavian systems Some OF the
best citizens Of the United Kingdom are
back Of the Peoples Refreshment Associa-
zion. The object is the promotion Of tenn
perance especially by giving trial to meth
ods for reducing drinking TO excess.
AS in the Gothenburg system the elimin-
alton OF private gain is the thing chiefly
sought. Licenses for the sale Of liquor
there are granted buildings, the persons
buying or leasing the buildings having
possession Of the licenses. The Peoples
company is not responsible for the grant
ing OF licenses. Its purpose is the leasing
Of existing licensed buildings and the ac-
qalTng Of what new licenses as are grant
ed, and 20 conduct them with view to re-
dueng the evil
Liquor is not exposed attractively, but
f00dstnff and tea are Sales on the latter
are pushed The strategic point Il the
manager who Is paid a fixed salary and is
allowed none Of the profits on the liquor
sold He is allowed profits on the nom
alcoholic things, and the rule Is strictly
enforced. Shares in the association are
IS each, and dividend Of five per cent Is
allowed to stockholders. All profits above
that are for general public utility, such as
electric lighting, singing schools, foot ball
and ambulanees. The effect, said the
speaker, Is wholesome and why ii it not
feasible and why IL II not praiseworthy, /
fail to see. He then quoted from a recent
article BY William Fl. Tolman, promiu-
ent refurmer, who urged that something Of
q similar kind feasible In this country
The writer thought that politics and the
saloon would then be divorced.
The Rev. Mr., Poole will give the final
address in the series next Sunday evening.