The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1918-09-04

L. vermont mas ngnt TO ask Tor Constitutional
protection from the lawess liquor traffic of other
states.
We have tried both state and town prohibition and have
found them only partially effective The liquor dealers of
Massachusetts, New York and other neghbong states have
nsoeny persisted in flooding Vermont with intoxicating
liquor in spite Of desire to keep out expressed in
statutes, and we have had no redress
The only effective remedy is to put the whole lawdefyng
traffic under the ban of the Constitution, did human
slavery fifty years ago.
III. Vermont has right to help make the United
States of which it is part, "a cleaner and better
country.
No puts forth the claim that the manufacture sale
and consequent drinking of alcoholic beverages tend to make
our people stronger more progressive more moral All epe
rence that the liquor traffic vast amount of
poverty disease crime and misery This is true in Cali
forna Arizona in Vermont We citizens of the United
the prosperity and welfare of feowczens who happen
to live in other states AS citizens Of the United States
have the right to seek the suppression of injurious
traffic in the whole country that we have as citizens OF our
own town to vote against license in that town.
is right loyal citizens by orderly and constitu
t0nal to seek to promote the welfare of the whole
country.
ILL., The new times in which we are living and
shall live for generations to come require the destruc
ton of the beverage liquor traffic.
Before we entered the great war; over 900 bushels
of grain year consumed in this country in the
acture of intoxicating beverages Our yearly expenditure
for these beverages S2000000 1t tremen-
dous drain upon but in those flush times did
not feel it so much
Since entered the war; have been denying ourselves
wheat and sugar and meat in order that armies and
allies might be fed but the brewers have still used 3d.
100000 bushels of grain year. many thousands of tons of
sugar and much other food material
After the closes the reconstruction of the worlds
ruined civilization will demand such conservation of every
have not yet conceived of Never again
the world tolerate such waste of its wealth the liquor traffic
has caused in the past century.
:" A Saooness Nation" is a necessity of the years to
come
Nv. The objection that minority might force
prohibition upon an unwilling majority by means of
a constitutional amendment is unpatriotic and
grOundess.
L. 1t is unpatrotic because it is not much criticism
of this movement attack upon system of gov
eminent The state is the unit in federal government
and Vermont of those units She has the right
speak that her neghbor New York has If minority could
never its way Abraham Lincoln would have been
president of the United States.
g. But in fact there is not the slightest danger that
minority will force its will majority in this The
opponents of ratification have named fourteen states which
they hope hold against the amendment If they should
hold every of the fourteenwhch they will notify the
last census those states contained only foryone million of
our ninety-one million population
VERMONT ANTISALooN LEAGUE