The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1913-03-03
Big Mass Meeting Held in
Auditorium Last
Night
KEEP TOWN CLEAN
WAS THE MESSAGE
Five Speakers Presented Strong Ar
guments for Voting No-License
Tomorrow Concrete Illustrations
Clinched the Points Made.

Clinched the Points Made.
Strong arguments for a clean Brattle
boro through a continuation of the pres
ent no-icense policy, illustrated by
many concrete examples, were made be-
fore several hundred persons in the
Auditorium. last evening, and the vot-
ers were urged to go to the polls early
tomorrow to cast their ballots against
legalizing the sale of liquor in this town.
E. B. Smith, principal of the high
school, was chairman of the meeting and
the speakers were Attorney o. B.
Hughes, Sanford A. Daniels, Edward C.
Crosby, Assistant Principal Fred D.
Hayward and Henry Bond of Tyler
street. Leitsinger s orchestra rendered
several selections at the opening, the
combined choirs of the Baptist and Con-
gregational churches sang an anthem
and Frederic G. Adams sang a solo with
violin obligato.
Chairman Smith announced that the
meeting was preliminary to the town
meeting, that for four years there had
been a steady increase in the majority
for no-hcense and that he believed a
majority of the people of the town were
| opposed to the liquor traffic. "We are
here tonight, - he said, "not simply to
urge you to vote no. but to try to stir
up the Indifferent. IF we can do that
we shall feel that we have accomplished
Ia great deal. 3"
Mr.. Hughes said he desired not so
much to present the reasons why a no
vote was desirable as to impress upon
every voter the necessity of performing
his duty at the polls. He told of the
system of checking up the voters as
they cast their ballots, in order that
those who were attempting to get out a
large vote might know what voters to
notify as the day wore on, and he said
it was astonishing to know how many
merchants and others within a short
distance of Festival hall delayed voting
until the last minute or failed to vote
at all. Late voting makes very difficult
the task of sending appeals to those
who have not cast their ballots up t0
1 or 2 o clock.
We ought not to be content. Mr.
Huges said, with a no-hcense majority
of 400, but ought to set higher mark as
a larger majority would offer still more
encouragement to the opposition. Fol
the past few years we have been en-
? deavoring to improve Brattleboro. En-
ployers of labor will be more willing II
invest their capital here if they car
be assured that the town win vote no
) license in the years to come. Mr.
Hughes stated that the ballots on thu
: subject of licenses would contain twt
questions, one relating to general ques
ton of license and one to see if license
! of the fifth class would be granted. II
said it was not necessary to vote o.
both questions and that a ballot wouIt
) not be inyalidated by marking it i
only in one place.
Mr.. Daniels said that when he wa
about six years old the circumstance o
an intoxicated man being frozen t
death made an impression upon hir
which never had been effaced and tina
from the time of the incident referre
to he decided never to use liquor H
said he did not know the taste of bee
or liquor of any kind. never havin
used it in any form. Some people sa
- the saloon makes business. Is it a legi
innate business? Is it the kind W
want2 IF you were going home som
= night and man with a revolver hel
, you up and said, your money or YOU
life what would you do? Any ma
with brains would give up all he hat
A That would not hurt his reputation {
character or his home. If YOU form I'll
liquor habit it not only takes your MOI
ey but ruins your character and work
an injury to all that you hold sacre,
We don t want any saloons in Brattl
- boro.'
= Mr., Crosby brought a good repor
from the legislature, of which he is
member. Of the nearly 800 members
that body he said only three were know