Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1915-09-22
TO THE BANNER


Banner or any other paper or person on
any subject. Nevertheless, the Ban
ner feels that the Monitor has done so
and believes we should apologize or
print all the Banner said regarding the
Perry Prohibition bill. Both of which
are now done, leaving the people as
judges of the Monitors misconduct.
If the whole paragraph of the Ban
ner does not smack of the same posi-
tiveness of the summarizing sentence
which the Monitor quoted. the writer's
judgment and reason must be failing.
Instead of lettering it's assertion
that the Perry bill should be defeated
for the honor and interest and welfare
of the state of Vermont complete
reading of the Banners remarks makes
it worse, for we cannot see when it
differentiates between facts and fancy,
between history and prophecy.
Listen. In one sentence the Banner
tells the fact that the Perry bill does
not allow for the purchase of liquor for
medicinal purposes. In the next with
out difference of mode, without quail
fication, the Banner says temperance
has made more real progress under
local option in twelve years than it did
in fifty years under prohibition. ="
Does the Banner deny this as debat-
able subject? Again in one sentence
the Banner states fact in that the bill
does away with the vote each year and
in the next sentence says: "Prohibi-
ton of the Perry brand is step back
ward" No chance for argument here?
In both of these sentences the Banner
states first a positive fact followed by
a positive statement about a generally
recognized debatable matter
In another place the Banner gives a
bit of actual history about the number
of licensed towns decreasing from 81
to IA and follows it with an unqualified
statement that in ''another II years
there wouldn't be a town in Vermont
regularly voting license" The Ban
ner may believe this but does it know
it?
The Banner makes absolutism its
keynote throughout. eve all know,
says the Banner, that prohibition is a
prolific promoter of fraud, hypocrisy
and humbug. "It will' again says the
Banner. plaster the state with hun
dreds Of illegal liquorselIing places and
thousands of demoraljzing schemes
to get liquor. cit will' again says
the Banner, give US all these things,
and the Perry bill should be defeated
for the honor and interest and well
fare" of Vermont.
But this is not enough. The
Banner says at the outset TIE
referendum is a stupid and wicked
attack on temperance. SO we
have it from the Banner, without let
or hindrance, that the majority of the
members of our last Legislature are
not only stupid but wicked. because
they voted for the referendum, that
the governor is Of the same character,
because he affixed It's signature to it,
(if the Banner editor had realized his
ambition and had been seated in the
executive chair this prohibition refer
endum bill would have + cen vetoed We
supposed anG that the people of thy
state who Will vote for it are asses
How high has the Banner editor Sc
himself above The Sc who differ VIII
him on this issue?
The Monitor has no particular low,
for The Advance or its editor, and ha
already given its bit of advice t.
Brother Howard, but we do admire
man or a paper who stands for O
against some of the pertinent issues 0
the day without FIND hing, he3girg 0
sitting on tha fence. We rotice TT