Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1904-03-10
THE LICENSE VOTE.
How II Is Interpreted BY Various
NEWSPAPERS.

= been better satisfied with the result
than the towns that voted to tipple.
y II St. Johnsbury Republican.
y The trouble is not with the men but
n with the law The delusion that Ii
Z cense would bring the millennium has
! been dispelled. The cold, hard fact
that the experiment with the open sa-
loon has been a dismal failure is en-
a forced upon the conviction of even Ii
r cense men, Montpelier journal.
E Ii next year the license list is cut
f down still farther we shall have been
headed for kind OF prohibition which
means something. 1t is the local
option people that have been fighting
the cause OF temperance so far as
legal regulations can reach this mat
ter. The case with which the saloons
can be closed under local option
comments the system to every lover
OF good governmental Rutland Her
aid.
On the whole 1t was a great day
tor good government in Vermont.
There is only one way to make good
government in a local community
by the decent citizenship taking
affairs into their own hands. Ii mat
tiers little what laws we get if the |
citizens OF the community repudIate /
their citizenship. The result OF the 4
local option voting in Vermont shows +
that the citizenship of the state APP
preciates its responsibilities. -rBur-
linoton News.
Ii is remarkable with what unanimi-
~ the license papers hasten to say that
the verdict of the people of the state
last Tuesday was hot a condemnation
OF the present license local-option law.
Do not let them arrive at such con-
clusion too soon. Whatever may lie
the fate OF the present law or the ar-
ton OF the next legislature, it is GER
tainly sure that the people OF Vermont
last Tuesday registered a vote of doom
Tor the open saloon within its borders.
The handwriting on the wall Is plain.
Il Barre Telegram. J
The great falling of in the yes :
vote from year ago is due in a great i
to the tact that not All has /
been accomplished In license towns z
that was promised in the campaign Tor a
TIE license law During the agitation !
which eliminated in the enactment 81 I,
he license local-option law. many d
statements were made as to what Won
ieriul things license would accomplish. G
Aahy people were led 70 expect more =
han they have realized. and the natur- q
y result has been a falling Off in the r,
yes vote Barre Times. al
Il seems hard for some newspapers y y
Q understand that the Vermont local y
'ption law was not on trial Tor its life hi
n the election OF March |. The only II
nestlon before the towns aud cities II
nat day was that OF license or prohi- =.
ltlon. The local option law has been N
n trlal every day Tor the past year in
very town in the state and will con- r
nue. to be on trial for the wear Ia ~
ONE. at least. Il better enforce ~
tent OF the law-whether il be license i
7 its no-license acknowledgements ca
nder the local option plan the trial of tn
y statute VIII be successful. Other y
ise, not Rutland News. h.
There is only one way TO analyze let
e result License has not "proved
sell. II i pronounced failure in DR.
any towns, This does not neces.
rily mean that the law has been ~
ndemned. License is one thing. ~
cal option another. With about III IL
WINS selling liquor under legal re-. n
rietlons and 200 towns under a sitter -
ohloltlon rule than ever before IA
Is long way from going 10
mnltlon bow-wows. The result Tues III:
Is salntary and hopeful. II will m
! the ram-sellers on their good be- -
yior, and will tend 10 give a strict
iorcement of the spirit and letter
the law. Let's give the law fair
al Battleboro Phoenix.
N estimating the true significance Of An
vote on the license question. sever
factors must be taken into consider y
on. First, ii has been the experI- A.,
e OF all states where local option -
been tried that the superabundant ! ~,
i shown Tor license at the first cleo. 80
4 Is not safe guide as to the actual est
'nse sentiment, or, at least. as to mon
at may be depended upon from year trea
year as normal license vote ing
ere are always plenty of men who
eager to try new thing, and who
n OIL at the first opportunity 10 vote
II. these men have no fixed opin- "a
: on any subject, and flop from side Of
'lde as occasion or fancy suggests. nc
" do not stay put anywhere on st,
thing. They must be reckoned ri,
b on the license vote Then there ar
he tribe OF "blacklistedn men who
not buy drinks at the bars or bot -
AZ the second-class stores because 3
7 have been convicted Of intoxica- cent
during the year. and they NAV be to re
ended upon 10 vote against license not /
OF mere spite, preferrinc the loose s stom
of old prohibition DAYS wnen they gsins
ID get plenty of liquor to the strin- pens,
cy OF the present law that makes II retur
! for them to get it. Then there i ment
class that is dissatisfied with the . As
I'd OF licenses. that thinks this man when
hat man shodld have had a license will !
this man or that man should not none
that, believing in the theory Of II,
e itself, still blindly votes aoainst bHieI
it'll the curious notion that # 4
eby "rebuking" the license com Shou