The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1907-12-27

fditor limesf-in recent edltoflA
you fererred 20 the resolutions passc(
by the vermant grange eondemnlng tbs
Law which legalizes open liquor saloons
and attempt, Il would seem. 90 annul the
influence Of said resolution by referring
to improved conditions IN Montpelier
but in doing - you seem % overlook
two facts Of vital impoFlaDeei First
that Montpelier Is under prohibition, and
not license q, all. and would be "a well
of as you would have US believe but for
the thoroughly abomInable law which
allows Barre aud Middlcscx 10 keep open
and halted traps 70 cnsnare and debaueh
her citizens aud those Of surrounding
towns and secondly. Il Is aIso fact
two years after long aud forclble
experience with license find that pro.
iihition with a penalty Of $500 for first
offences Of selling, really prohibits about
thirty times better than did the small
penalty OF only ten doliors under the
old law. Il i therefore surprisingly
strange that all who would like to see.
DO not see that state prohibitory Law
with large penalty attached a far
better for a little rural state like Yer.
mont with no large cities within her
domain than any license law that waa
ever framed Under such q Law, the
state Of Maine. outside Of two or three
Of her cities i probably the least
cursed By the liquor traffic Of all the
states IN the union. and even IN her
larger cities, much less liquor 4 con.
sunled according 70 their population.
than Ia your city Of Barre under hcensed
saloons. That IL a fact that only the
checklist local optionist will DENY.
Now. Mr.. Editor. for the snliRhten.
ment Of the Timcs' readers. iesire 20
say a few woris concerning Montpelier.
That said city i incompaubly better
of un.er prohibition than she was un.
der hcsnse, no one who has the slightest
regard for truth viii deny. But. Sir. al.
low me 70 quote the words q an electric
car conductor. IN regard 10 conditions
now a. compared with conditions under
the prohibitory law with it, admitted
defeat in regard TO the smallness OF
the penalty for violations thereof. II
quote from said conductor Off the
reason that he Is better informed a. 10
conditions" than either the writer or
the editor Of any newspaper in Wash.
ington county. And this is what he said
conditions now as compared
with conditions under our prohibition
law;
Under prohibition" 81 course car.
ricd more or less men who were intnxi
rated, bat didn't carry whole carloads.
rs / have done under the license law
4 run the last car down from Barre TO
Montpelier and / have about q carload
II such fellows nearly every night, And |
ythers, who ride more or less, not only /
n that particular car verify said condte. |
or's statement.
Such being the fact Il matters not
whether only one or more hundred Of
hem were arrested in Montpelier dur
ny the month Of November. II the pc.
ice of that city wish to take a ret
Ifter several years Of laborious activity
inier license, and do not care to set
ip to arrest a carload Of their unfur- i
innate fellow citizens after the Barre
aloons close at ten O'Clock the writer
las no words Of centure to offer, but
would much prefer 10 see those who
ote 70 entrap such unfortunates placed
where they could do no harm.
The splendid body Of Vermont citizen.
hip, who constitute the state grange
as condemned the present license law
/ the state Church after church mas
4 4
hurches whose members have refused
. denounce the law, but think they are
rerely commissioned TO pray men out
{ he'll in the future world and vote them
ito it Tor it into them) in this world,
might be wen for them to investigate
! TO the origin of their commissions, |
A large majority of the best citizens
Vermont are opposed to the present
cense law which inllicts generous spots
pom the state at large, and will not
g satisfied until we have a general pro
ibitory law, like the compulsory school
w, that shall be as general in its APP
lication as said law, and with a pen
Ity 50 large as to drive the iquot
aiiic from the state.
Contrary to the dark predictions
bout prohibition sentiment dying out
iat we have been hearing the past few
ears, there Is now tidal wave Of II
Weeping over the states with tne
-omise that it has come to stay, as the
isiness men are now In the movement
well as the great moral forces that
i've hitherto fought the battles alone
READY there are six prohihitory states
ith good prospect that the number
i'll soon include the once good old but
Gently prodigal Vermont.
T. T. Fortney,
Plaintield, VT
nan % tony