The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-11-10

soon that the people have experienced an awakening"
 Allied with the illicit liquor and pro- hibition forces was class of lawyers whose clfentage was mainly among those who sell illegally. and to whom prohibition represented, not a princi- pie. but fat and frequent fees, together with the army of local and State of- f1cers who made their living out of the laws. Prohibition was also cham ptoned by a numerous class of polfu- cians who had for q generation used 1t as a means of recurring ,ffice. .Ar1d who feared to take the chances under a new and healthy regime.
 The prohibftionists and their allies flooded the State with literature and speakers, but they argued against the practical experience of the voters of the State. and. therefore, argued without avail.
 Prohibition Repaaiated Four Times in
 q Year.
 Four times in single year the peo. pie of the State showed their deter imitation to repudiate the law--in the caucuses, in the Legislature. when they voted on the question direct on Feb ruary 3d, last and finally, when the towns voted on license on March Sd. 1903. On the last occasion eighty seven towns--all in the State of any consequence in point of size--declared for license. cd
 VERMONT TESTIMONY.
 Hon. r. ". Clements.
 (Extract from speech delivered at Rut-
 land, January 2. 1s03)
 Prohibition is nothing but false and empty sentiment. It has never for one moment done what it professes tr 1A- aa1n nf infnNtNa liquors to be drunk as a beverage. Had that been done it's young life would have been strangled fifty years ago, within twenty-four hours of the pas sage of the law. Nevertheless 1t has lived and become strong and dom- mated in politics and government for fifty years. As a restrictive measure it has been of no avail. It has proved a splendid cloak to conceal the move ments of designing men when stalking political office. A fine weapon In the hands of the greedy office-holders with which to extort money from those Who are continually breaking the provisions of the law. A fine weapon in the hands of those who plunder the public under the guise of the law. These are the purposes for which it has been used.
 The prohibitionists have piled up amendment after amendment In their VaIn. GII0TL tO IHAAC tlC ts1W hASAO VI fective. It is they who have converted the Supreme court into a detective bureau. they are responsible for the injunction provisions, for the search without warrant, for the moiety, for Imprisonment without trial, for all those odious provisions which offend the moral sense of the community. The provisions for the enforcement of prohibition are not more odious than Is the principle which lies behind the law
 The prohibitionists have joined forces with the lowest class of saloon-keepers and the jackals of the law in an ap- peal to the people of Vermont to save the prohibitory law. Think of iti The Anti-Saioon League in league with the saloon, the prohib and the legal scavengers and a few of the erstwhile politicians who have in the past, scrambled to position in the disguise of Prohibitionists--all of them down on their narrow bones and with up-lifted hands praying in solemn unison: God What a spectaclei
 The cwOraIixmtion of State ProhibI-
 ffom.s
 (Extract from address by Rev George
 Eliot Cooley, before the Methodist Conference at Lyndonville. April
 20, 1901.)
 Good men and sincere men can and do differ honestly in respect to the re- suits of this law. I stand unqualified ly on the ground that temperance is a principle of life to which all in- dividuals are amenabIe. We are com- ing to see that it is impossible to bring in the Kingdom of God by Legislation; yet, as earnest men we are anxious to determine upon the best method of dealing with the intemperanee evil. May 1t pot be possible that, in the ef- fort toI prevent this evil or intem- perance by a state prohibitory law. we are fostering greater and more in- sidious evils? Respect for the, courts has been undermined by the wholesale disregard for law. confidence in judi cial processes has been destroyed by so many naiscarriages of justice. the oath has been invalidated and perjury promoted by the effort to enforce a law which many feel under no obliga- tion to observe.
 The condition of things thus brought about ought to be appalling to the teacher of morals, and the advocate of law and order. Who is not aware of the great injury done to organized society by these persistent and insidi- ous efforts to subvert the law? It tends to make officials two-faced' leSisT lators timid and insincere candidates TOT