Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1915-08-25
WHAT THE PAPERS SAY.
Rightly Condemns Sunday Baseball.

Bellows Falls has decided to have
Sunday baseball to raise money to get
in the association out of debt. Editor
Belknap of the Times voiced a vigor-
Gus protest at the meeting on the
ground that the primary purpose of
the Sunday games was to pay debts
contracted during the week and that
it was simply commercializing the
Sabbath. A baseball team that de-
ponds on Sunday ball games deserves a
deficit and we shall be surprised if the
Bellows Falls association can make it
pay.-Springfeld Reporter.
Local Option Law Not Enforced.
Two weeks back the Union referred
to saloons as "local option INDUSTRIES
and also asked Ibid one ever know a
Christian gentleman in the rum busi-
ness" and the more we think about it
the more we are inclined to think that
both reference and question was pat.
However, as it would cause US great
distress to say a word or do an act
that would in the least lessen that
warm and beautiful friendship that
has so long existed between the Herald
and the Anti-Saloon league, we hasten
to confess that the Union is alone
guilty for the above phrases-with all
their character assassination qualities
The Anti-Saloon League is entirely
innocent. They never knew we were
going to print such stuff and probably
don't know it nOW-unless they read it
in the Herald. They don't take the
Union. Whether any other of the
state papers are in collision with the
temperance workers, we don't know
and neither do we deny their right to
be, any more than we deny the right
of the Herald to be in collision with
the whskey trust, if it is. Certainly
no champion of any Vermont interest
ever more zeaIously guarded that
interest than has the Herald guarded
the local-option industries. For the
last quarter of century every attempt
to pass an act which would neutralize
the powers and and the evils of the
saloon has met with active opposition
from the Herald. During the last
session our member from Brandon
made praiseworthy attempt to ado
claws to the present local-option Law
by the addition of disclosure feature
and the Herald was one of the force!
which helped defeat this act. II
theory the local option law places the
saloon under fairly reasonable contro
but in practice it falls as far short O
being an effective law as did the oil
prohibition law. The local option Law
provides a penalty for the salool
which sells to the habitual drunkart
or to the man who is posted, but befor
the penalty can be inflicted you mus
prove party guilty. Who ever hear
of these sections of the local-optiol
law being enforced?
We own that habitual drunkards ar
habitually drunk but the law Goesn'
provide the machinery to locate tn
man who sells him the rum. Poster
men can buy as freely as men who ar
not posted. Brandon officers hav
trailed pocket pedler six months
before they finally landed him. Wit
the disclosure feature embodied in tn
law they could have landed h m in si
days. It would cut the supply of post
ed men and habitual drunkards-an
would cut out a material portion @
the saloon patronage. It would fur
nish the law with claws and a lay
without claws gets no respect All
deserves none.-Brandon Union.