St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1916-02-16
AGAINST SALOON
Correspondents Urge The Voters
To Vote Yes On The Perry
Bill Referendum
Editor of The Caledonian:

Eoltor OF The CaledOnian:
Tt is becoming more and more evil
dent that there is no good reason for
the existence of the saloon. Careful
experiments have shown that as a
beverage alcohol has no right in the
human body. It is an irritant, habit
forming poison, destroyer of cells
and tissues, a disease-producing drug.
The druggists Of the United States
have ruled out brandy and whiskey
! from their list of medicines and most
of the physicians say that the effect
of alcohol is uncertain and it's use
dangerous.
the great waste Of the drink should
be considered. There is about 81, O0O.-
600 spent yearly in this state for al
coholic drinks. This is money worse
than thrown away. A large per cent
is sent out of the state for goods which
from the first glass to the last is only
harmful, creating a loss in efficiency,
morality and manhood and increasing
criminality, disease and misery and
sending on to future generations faint
ed blood and depraved tendencies.
According to careful experiments
even glass of beer lessons a mans
efficiency z per cent. The drink habit
means less capable workmen, hence
less wages, less comforts and neces-
saries in the home.
A banker said not long ago: my
wife is in an insane asylum from
disease caused by alcohol She did
not drink, but her father and grand
father did. So I am homeless and my
little daughter motherIess."
Gov. Gates, talking recently to a
group of men, said that soon it would
be necessary to build a new wing to
the Waterbury insane hospital A
physician present said, Get prohibi-
ton in the state and you can tear
down one already built"
A mother who has always bought
the cheapest shoes for her children.
fitted them out with shoes of the best
quality, and said, you may wrap
these shoes up, please; for since they
closed the saloons my husband is saw
ing his earnings and we can now af-
ford better shoes for our children
DR.. James Empringham. rector of
ST. PauFs Episcopal parish in SYRIA
cuse, n. Y. has just resigned his par
ish and taken up the work of the Anti
Saloon league. From his own pulpit
on January "a, he said:
five main reasons are my. five sons
My people in England are giving
themselves in war time to save their
country. I am an American citizen. |
1 cannot do less than give myself for
my country in time of peace to pro-
tect her from a dreadful foe that not
only destroys the bodies of my fellow
men but ruins their souls.
"The liquor traffic is doomed. Pro-
is inevitable. I do not pre-
tend to say whether it will come ma
tionally in five. 10 or Is years. But it
cannot be stopped. 1 want a hand in
it. I would rather run to meet it, face
to the front, gladly doing my share to
hasten the. blessings that will come
from it, than, struggling and protest
ing, to be dragged by the scruff of the
neck to higher plane of civilization
by somebody with clearer vision and
greater courage than myself"
Let the voters of Vermont arise to
heir great opportunity by voting
Yes on the referendum, March Z,
,hus turning out from our state the
licensed saloon which is everywhere
and always a curse.
MRS. S. K. HUSE,
Pres. Cal. Co. w. G. T. U.