The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1918-03-04
EVERY SALOON MAKES
THREE DEAD MEN 4
YEAR, SAID PLUMLEY
Ex- Ex-Congressman Declared That II Barre
Votes Wet Again There Will BE 80
Dead Men to Result From
the Action.

churches of the city closed their door
| that their congregations might partiei
pate in the mass meeting, and slleabl
audience heard the eN-member oi tn
House of Representatives build up hi
ease against rum and the open saloon
The gathering was held under the aus
pices of local clorgymen and others wh'
have interested themselves in the cam
paign for mo" votes, and Rev. J. y
Reardon, president OF the Barre, Minis
ters' club acted as chairman.
Miss Gladys Gale opened the program
with a voluntary. The audience sang
"The Star Spangled Banner and pray
er was offered by Rev. u. j. Lehigh, pas
tor of the First Baptist church. A
mixed quartet. consisting of A. G. Bige.
low. Fred Inglis, Mrs. Bradley and Mrs
Forrest Bellows, contributed selections
during the evening, and toward the close
of the rally, after Mr.. Plumley had con
cluded his remarks, the audience sang
America" Benedction was pronounced
| by the chairman.
The speakers well known oratoriesl
powers were brought out adyantageously
| in his stirring appeal for the abolition OF
| tine open saloon and for nearly two hours
/ the audience followed him closely. Nor
al, economic and legislative aspects OF
| the liquor problem were considered by
Mr.. Plumley, who opened his address
with an attack on statements which. he
said. were made in The Times by advo-
Gates of license. As for his own town,
he said that early trials of license had
convinced the voters that dry conditions
were much preferable, and that at the
present time no one had occasion to
worry about the outcome of the vote at
each March election. We are living in
times when we are becoming more and
more alive to the fact that our enemy is
one of the most sinister forces in written
history. He referred to Germany and
said that nothing can stand between us
and victory if we conserve in every di-
rection. that next to the titanic struggle
which is being waged over there is the
important struggle here at home, a
struggle to save ali of the elements nee
essary for food.
Turning to the newspaper advertise
ment which, he said, was captioned,
"Eoters Attention" he denied the state
ment therein contained that mo" ma
iority in Barre will make it unlawful to
ship liquor, beer or wine into Barre for
private consumption, or, broadly speak
ing, for beverage purposes. The speaker
asserted that the Reed amendment, so
called, was offered by Senator Reed of
Missouri when the Jones Randall bill |
was pending. II affects only states that |
have declared for prohibition, he went |
on, and does not operate in dry towns /
where the state regulation is through |
local option. Mr.. Pumey said the Ii |
cense people, so far as they quoted the
amendment, quoted it correctly, although |
their conclusions were wrong. Vermont |
is not a prohibition state and therefore
the Reed amendment is not effective.
Again directing his attention to a
advertisement, which. he said
was inserted by the liquor interests. he
attacked the claim that ''no" majorities
will shift the burden of paying taxes
amounting to S775 100000 if this extra
revenue is not derived from revenue. He
described this statement as camoufage
and went on to say that the liquor ped
lied out by boot ieggers is taxed and
hat the government, after getting the
revenue therefrom, is not concerned with
now it is retailed. The advertisements,
n both Instances, have no force when /
issected by thinking men. Mr., Plum {
ey described as pretty expensive un- !
the payment of the SI75,000,
100 through the liquor interests, for he {
aid later in the evening that the liquor |
,eople charge S2,000,000,o00 for the col &
ection and that the people have to pay 9
mother two billion to care for the un- e
ortunate ones who are ruined, directly &
II indirectly by the traffic. If the city j
Unstable or tax collector charged such a
ee the voters would call him a robber d
Ii no harm came from the sale of f
iquor it might be wise to vote TO con-
inue it, But il is harmful, said the a
peaker, and here he proceeded to attack a
he old argument that alcohol has food 2
nd medicinal value. Every physician of $
calls it narcotic and a poison $
aid Mr.. Plumley, and it is held in such v
NV estimate that il has been barred
rom the United States pharmacop9ia. n
'r. Grout, recently superintendent of the n
tate hospital at Waterbury. has de- Il
ared that there is no place for alcohol 81
the stomach, that il is not medicine 81
hen taken internally, though it may y
ave some value when applied externally. 7
Continuing, the speaker said that it is j
OF the man who gets drunk but the So a.
He'd regular. temperate drinker who is VI
'riously disturbed by alcohol, who is W
entally and physically depressed by m
: use Alcohol reduces the efficiency la
a man s per cent. He quoted stats @
cs to show that II davs of moderate NJ
linking reduces mans mental efficien 81
- per cent. his mathematical efficien al
{. if he be proficient in figures, 40 per
mt. Mr. Plumey went on to quote
imperative figures in North and South
lkota. two states admitted to state :,
,od about the same time. In the for l..
pr the saloon has had little part in the -. ~
e of the people, although it was con -
lued for long time in South Dakota, =. -
d the vast difference in pauperism TO ~ ~
found IN an examination of the re .,
rts tells the story OF alcohol's fearful W
II. ie
On the economic side. said the former pa
ngressman. the man who viii take the ~
cents he spends for four glasses of ee
pr each dsy and place II in the bank oc,
n have S7S.20 at the end of the year.
81 500 at the end of 20 wears. instead WI
being broken financially and physi IN
lv al the end of the latter period. The on
al abstainer. at 20. has an expectancy ret
living until he l. 81. according to life f0l
ursncc statistics. as q moderate pla
nker at 20. he will live till he Is 81 IL
! az a steady drinker at the same age. Pr,
will die az 35. ag'
Every saloon in the United States is ihs
rred by irrcfutsblc figures with three
q men each wear. When It j. remem- -
ed that $4,000 saloons. said the tris
aker are doing business tho toll he Irr