Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1904-12-09
COST OF LICENSE
Rev. Mr.. Morrow Shows Burden
Which Brattleboro is Bearing
Town Taxes Itself over $4,000 Annually
In Order to Maintain Lleense-Wage
Farmers Foot the Bills.

Town Taxes Itself over $4,000 Annually
In Order to Maintain Lleense-Wage
Farmers Foot the Bills.
A two-weeks' campaign in Vermont in
the interest of no license was begun In
Brattleboro Saturday and Sunday by Rev.
G. w. Morrow of Burlington, superin-
tendent for Vermont of the Anti-Saloon
League, and the Neal Dow male quartet
Of Boston. The first meeting was held in
Festival hall Saturday night, when dis
solving views were shown, with view
to advertising the Sunday meetings. On
Sunday morning a union meeting was held
In the Congregational church in West
Brattleboro and in the afternoon and
evening meetings were held in Festival
hall. The male quartet sang seven Sc
lections at each meeting Their voices
harmonized well and added much to the
interest of the services. Following is the
record of attendance, abstinence pledges
of the Lincoln Legion signed, subscrip-
tions and cash collections Saturday
night, attendance, 200; collection, $511;
pledges, 25 Sunday morning, attendance,
300; subscriptions, $3.50; collection,
1927, pledges, rs; Sunday afternoon, at
tendance lao; subscriptions and collec-
lions, 1923; pledges, so. Sunday evening,
attendance, 500; subscriptions. $50; col
lection, 1916; pledges. As. Total, attend
ance, 1140; subscriptions and collections,
$1S0.94; pledges, 1856. A meeting was held
in Putney Monday evening. All the prin-
cipal places In the state will be visited
by Mr.. Morrow and the quartet.
The first half of the address, partic-
ularly on Sunday evening, was a plea for
total abstinence. Mr.. Morrow spoke of
the magnetic personality of Lincoln, whose
life of total abstinence was an inspiration
and example to others. He gave testi-
monies from the railroad world, CONNER
I'll
closing to men who drink, and quoted
Edward Box, editor of the Ladies' Home
Journal, who says: mo young man ever
will find abstinence from the use OF hq-
uor hindrance to success, social, COM
mercial and otherwise" The pledges
were signed at this point in the service.
The second part of the address was de-
voted TO the license or no license argu-
ment, giving numerous Illustrations tend
ing to show that the saloon does not help
business. A merchant in Rutland told
him that two years ago he talked, work
ed and voted for license as he thought
his business would benefit from 1t. Nearly
100 men were customers at his store,
trading from SO to s5 a week, and max
ing regular payments. on the coming OF
the saloons the customers began to pay
irregularly, and many have contracted
bills which they cannot pay. The mer-
chant voted no license last March. He
read from printed sheet, the substance
OF which was as follows:
"Bratteboro is a good example of rev.
enue from license fees. What is true OF
Brattleboro is true of other towns. Brat
tleboro gets this year, exclusive OF drug
gists licenses, $3.50 as her share of IL
cense revenue. We will not discuss the
increased cost OF police, or care OF drunks.
Neither do we stop to discuss the i'm
poverished families to be helped by pub
lie and private charity. The question of
how this revenue is spent is not so impor-
tant as where II comes from. You an
swer at once 1t comes from the licensed
saloon keepers. Let US trace II out
little. The licenses in Brattleboro for
this year are as follows: