The evening Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1918-1920, 1918-09-03

beverage purposes.
BECAUSE
L. Vermont has a right to ask for 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 neigh
boring States have nsOlently persisted IN flooding Yer
mont with intoxicating liquor in spite of desire to
keep out expressed in our statutes and we nave mao
redress.
The only effective remedy is to put the whole law
defying traffic under the ban of the Constitution
did human slavery fifty years ago.
H. Vermont has a right to help make the United
States, of which it is part, cleaner and better coun-
try.
No one puts forth the claim that the manufacture,
sale and consequent drinking Of alcoholic beverages tend
to make people stronger more progressive, more
causes vast amount of poverty, disease crime and
misery This is as true in California or Arizona in
Vermont. We citizens Of the United States who
happen to live in Vermont have vital interest in the
prosperity and welfare of fell0WcitiZens who hap
pen to live in other States AS citizens of the United
States we have the same right to seek the suppression
Ct an injurious traffic in the whole country that have
as citizens Of own town to vote against license In
that town.
1t is our right loyal citizens by orderly and
utional to seek to promote the welfare of the
whole Country. IT D.
III The new times i'm which we living and shall
live for generations to require the destruction of
the beverage liquor traffic
Before we entered the great war, 100,000,000
bushels of grain year consumed in this Country in
the manufacture Of Intoxicating beverages Our yearly
expenditure for these beverages $200OO00 1t
was tremendous drain upon our resources but in those
flush times did not feel it so much.
Since we entered the War, we have been denying
ourselves wheat and sugar and meat in order that
armies and allies might be fed but the brewers have
still used 100000 bushels of grain year, many
thousands Of tons of sugar and much other food mater
ial
After the War Closes the reconstruction of the
worlds ruined civilization will demand such q conserva-
ton of every resource have not yet conceived Of
Never again the world tolerate such waste of its
wealth the liquor traffic has caused in the past
tuHy.
"a Salooness Nation" is a necessity of the years to
come
~. The objection that minority might force pro-
hibition upon unwilling majority by of
titutiOna amendment is unpatriOtic and gTOundesS.
l. It is urpatriotic because it is not so much a
criticism of this government it is attack upon
system of government The State is the unit in our
Federal government and Vermont is of those units
She has the right to speak that her neghbor New
York has If minority could never have its way,
Abraham Lincoln would never have been President of
the United States.
2. But in fact there is not the slightest danger that
The opponents of ratification have named fourteen
States which they hope to hold against the amendment
IF they should hold every of the foureen-which
they will notby the last those States contained
only fOrtyone million Of ninety-one million popua
ton. ~
VERMONT ANTISALOON LEAGUE