Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1915-12-08
MANY PROMINENT VERMONTERS
ENDORSE PROHIBITION.

A thirty two page booklet is just be-
ing issued by the Vermont Anti-saloon
league containing "Facts, Figures and
Arguments for State Wide Prohibi
ton" It is to be circulated among the
voters of the state and gives in con-
densed> form much valuable information
concerning this question which will be
so widely discussed during the next few
months. The booklet gives the main
points in the law and explains the
method of voting upon it.
Ii also gives avarlety Of statistics
on the subject from which it appears
that commitments t. state prison
during twelve years under local option
ing the similar preceding period under
prohibition. Commitments to the
house of correction for intoxication
have been three times as many u1de r
local option as under prohibition, in
spite of the fact that the law has been
c.24ny :. h g ines + relieve n
pressure on that ins,iLAtlon Vii US
arguments are adduced for prohibition
and objections are answered Special
attention is given to the question Of
druggists licenses. sh wing that there
is very small dem nd for the n, only
seven no license towns Of 232 granting
them that in many cases they are sub
ject to the same ab as the o d town
! agencies, and that they are not neces-
sary. Many of the large towns of the
sta are we'll satisfied to get along
without druggists licenses and many
repu table physicians do not prescribe
intoxicating liquors incidentally. Per-
h ps the most significant and interest
ing thing in the book ct is the state
rent ITO the Voters of Verm mt -
signed by twenty-four representative
men of the state. After referring to
the enactment of the law by the J; st
Legislature, and calling attention to the
fact that it is not the old prohibitory
law but the present law with its pro
hibitory fea ures applied to the whole
state the statement goes on to saw:
Twelve years experience has dem
strated that here in Vern mt as every
where the licensed liquor traffic is al
WAYS demnraIiZng influence, greatly
increasing the amount of drunkenness
crime and suffering It costs the PEG
pie directly and indirectly enormous
Gus ills upon in3ivicnals and the public
at large
Moreover, under modern conditions
of easy com nunication one license
town, in which the majority for the
licensed saloon may have been very
small, tents to Gebauch all the sur
rounding towns. even though they may
have voted strongly against license.
1--WE believe that the sdoptiOn O.
this new law by the popular vote viii
operate toward temperance, SObriety
and a cleaner civic life in Vermont
1t will tend to the increase of pros
perity and happiness in cur state, an(
will bring harmony with public opinion
the world over
I'VE, therefore. most earnestly hop.
that the statewide prohibitory law vii
be approved by an overwhelming ma
jority at the polls next March, and WI
mos, earnestly urge our fellow citIzen
without regard to politics, religion O.
nationality to support it with thei
influence and their vote"
This statement is signed by the fol
lowing well-known men rep1 sentine
all sections, the different politica
parties. and trade interests of Yer
mont: Frank Plumlev, Mortified
Guy Potter Benton, Burlington; JOIN
A Mead. Rutland; John M Thomas
Middlehury W. W. Stickney. Ludlow
Charles P. Smith, Burlington; Oli.
W e'iIil, EuoSpurg ais :, EgDerC y
futile, Rutland Frank 9. PARTRIDGE
Proctor; Frank H Brooks. St. Johns
bury; F Thomas Kidder, NJ D
Woodstock: Newman K. Chaffee
nrt and Willis N Cady, Middlebury
RedfieId Proctor. Proctor; Arthur w
Hewitt. PIainfeld Henry O. Carpen
ter, Rutland; Chauncey S Skinner
Orleans: Thomas c. Cheney, Morris
Vile; Frazer Meizger, Randolph; w
B. Howe. Burlington; George L
Durham. Rrattloboro; H w Varnum
Barre P T. Fl Pierson, Bennington
KYie Z. Blown Lnnenhurg