Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1907-01-18

ot. JoIl1SpufN Is douSeu dSdlhSt tite
large trade III zone per cent beer" what
ever that may be. Quite right If you
vote No make it No especially as t,
all such imitation goods which drain
the pockets of the laboring people just
rs surely as the real goods. ''-EsseA
County HERALD.
BY all means be honest in the vote,
but don't vote with any idea that the
laboriug man is under wardship to the
government and has to he taken care OF
like minor child. He is able to take
care of himself. The "brother's keeper
business may be worked too far, and it
certainly does afford convenient excuse
for some very earnest and well meaning
people to attempt to make other people
live according to their standard, not 10y
the gentle persuasive power of precept
and example, but by the out-and-out
compulsion of law.
Seriously, If the laboring man wants
to invest his wages in one per cent beef
or jewsharps, and it is perfectly lawful
to sell either it is nobody's business but
the laboring mans where his money
goes.-St. Adams Messenger.
Since the beginning of human activity
evasion of responsibility has shielded
itself behind the boldfaced question.
"Am | my brothers Keeper We may
fairly assume that when that question
was first asked. it was answered in the
affirmative, and all subsequent history
has pronounced that answer correct.
Carried to its utmost reasoning it is
neither paternalism nor guardianship !:
it is true democracy. The idea that
'every man for himself emhodes sh,.
principle of democracy has become so
far discredited that we have styled its
disciples anarchists. True democracy,
: we be lieve, is voiced in the phrase "the
greatest good for the greatest number
What is that "greatest good" is deter
mined 10y our voters through the law
making body.
Our esteemed contemporary intim ates
that, the greatest number" not having
rmally pronounced the sale of G6 beer
anything but good, therefore, the real
character OF such sale is no ones business.
Can an, one maintain that our common
and statute laws furnish the current
criterion of morality aud ethics, and
that that part of the worlds religions
which affirm the brotherhood of man
has its Only sanction therein?
When the people of st. Johnshnry voted
"No' they voted that Intoxicating liquor
should not be sold in that town. They
voted more they voted to prevent the
results naturally attending a certain sort
OF alcoholic inbibing. And we venture
to say that majority of the voters were
mindful principally of economic rather
than ethical, results. They voted that
the wage Garner should not be spend
thrifty i'll the satisfaction of his appetite
for alcoholic stmu|ants to The impover-
ishing of his family and to the injury of
the towns business interests. Undouht-
eddy 10 beer and 2e6 beer have certain
things in common: the consumption of |
each in some degree appeases the crav-
ing, and if the III isn't as successful in
that respect as the 2eS it evidently evens
things up in the common effect on the
towns economy.
This being so, we maintain that the
only consistent thing for St. Johnsbury
to do, having voted NO. is to make it
mo"
We wish to express our hearty arpre-