Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1912-08-29
Only Correct Way to Handle
Liquor Business Says Presi-
dental Candidate Chain.
PREDICTS ULTIMATE SUCCESS
Prohibitionists Will Destroy the
Traffic by Ruling That It Is
a Crime and Not a
Business.

The fourth party to hold rallies in
the State, the Prohibition party. opened
its campaign in this locality Sunday
with a rally in The Majestic theatre In
the afternoon and in City Hall Park in
the evening. The Hon Eugene w. Chain
of Tucson. Arizona, candidate for pres-
dent on the Prohibition ticket. was the
principal speaker on both occasions
In the afternoon Mr.. Chain delivered the
well-known address on Government by
Administration" which ne first gave in
Madison, Wis. at the State convention Of
his party in June. The $50 or more who
were present listened attentively
a. O. Ferguson presided at the rally
and first introduced Charles n. Stanley
of Los Angeles. Cal. who is travelling
with Mr.. Chain. and who sang several
songs and spoke briefly along a charac-
teristic line, abiding to the evils of the
| liquor habit
| Mr.. Chain. in opening. said that the
party had won battles enough but had
won no campaigns as they folded their
arms and lay back as soon as the cleo
ton was over. Their efforts had therefore
availed little. There arc sumr things upon
which we can all a@r ~; that the
liquor traffic is the " .r.c tina,
the world has ever kMoVl; ..oond. tina,
the curse ought to he destroyed. root
and branch. and, last. that after n years
Of heroic effort against IT, we find the
| liquor interest more firmly intrenched
than ever before and larger amount
being consumed with each succeedirg
year.
| In seeking remedy, the pledge had
been tried but found to be no solution
of the problem. After ten years of tina,
the reformers turned to prohibition and
since that time there Is hardly a town
ship east of the Mississippi river which
has not at some time b-en dry. because
people believed that the liquor traffic
could be destroyed by law Law alone
can never destroy the traffic. Law is
not government but administration is
government and this must be coupled
with law before results can he obtained
What is needed, therefore, is a party
elected to power that will deal with the
liquor traffic as though it were a crime
and not a business.
No more laws are needed. Tho Prohlhi.
tlonists have been following false gods
The party must he elected to power and
attention turned 10 that. rot TO legisla
tive acts One of the first steps would
he to repeal the "inferna' revenue Law
and repeal the statute in each Sta.t
which permits the granting of a license
The party. if elected to power, would re
peal a few more such laws and do tn,
rest by an Interpretation of the oonstitu
ton.
The forming of the Republican rartN
was used as an illustration Of the fact
that the reform nust bo brought abou
by the administration. It's viewpoin
In regard to slavery was that it wa.
wrong and the viewpoint OF the Proh
bition party in regard to the liquor bust
ness Is that it is wrong. Mr. Chain at
tackled the Supreme Court and said tina
non partsans and many others now
worked to pass a law and then turned Il
lover to one of the grand old whsle,
parties for enforcement and permitted tn,
brewers to select the members of tn,
Supreme Court
When the Good Templars were organic
led the republicans would not join becaua,
the Republican party promised to attend
to the liquor problem, 1t has had 10 year.
In which to make good that promise bu
has done nothing towards It. and Pres
lwhiskey administration which the coun
try has ever had. The President had ever
sent cabinet officer to preside over
brewers congress in order to get tn
lliquor vote.
In concluding, Mr.. Chain said:
1--WE are going to win this fight. Sc
THAT down. And we are going to vii
through political party elected to powe
to administer the government from tn,
supreme Court down. We are going t,
destroy the liquor traffic by ,nterpret.n.
the law and the constitutions, from tn,
standpoint that the traffic Is a crime ant
not business We are going to refus
license and let the saloons all die as the,
Will at the end Of the first year after w
lare elected to power. We are going t,
simply repeal the license provision of tn
statutes and the tax and internal revenue
flaws. We are going to hold that liuuo
Is not legitimate subject of commerc,
and has no rights to the mails In fact
We VIII establish the proposition that tn,
beverage liquor traffic il an outlaw un
der any fair or reasonable intrepretatio,
OF the common law and the constitutions