The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1918-09-05
BECAUSE

l. Vermont has right to ask for Constitutional
protection from the awless liquor traffic of other
states.
We have tried both State and town prohibition and
nave found them only partially effective. The liquor
dealers OF massachusetts,, New York and other neigh
boring States have nsoenty persisted in flooding Yer
month with intoxicating liquor in spite of our desire to-
keep out expressed in statutes and have had
no redress
The only effective remedy is to put the whole law
deyng traffic under the ban of the Constitution as we
did human slavery fifty years ago.
ii. Vermont has right to help make the United
States, of which it is part, cleaner and better
country
No one puts forth the claim that the manufacture
sale and consequent drinking of alcoholic beverages
tend to make our people stronger, progressive
more moral All experience proves that the liquor traffic
causes vast amount of poverty, disease, crime and
misery. This is as true in California Arizona in
vermont we as citizens OF the United States who
happen to live in Vermont have vital interest in the
prosperity and welfare of feow-citzens who hap
pen to live in other States AS citizens of the United
States have the right to seek the suppression
of an injurious traffic in the whole country that we
have as citizens of own town to vote against license
in that town.
1t right loyal citizens by orderly and const
tutonal means to seek to promote the welfare Of the
whole Country.
III. The new times in which we are living and shall
live for generations to require the destruction Of
the beverage liquor traffic.
Before we entered the Great War; over 1000OOO0O
bushels OF grain year consumed in this Country
in the manufacture of Intoxicating beverages. Our
yearly expenditure for these beverages was over
100000. 1t was tremendous drain upon our re-
sources but in those flush times did not feel
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 over 100000 bushels of grain year,
many thousands of tons of sugar and much other food
material
After the War closes, the reconstruction of the
worlds ruined civilization will demand such
ton 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 Saloonless Nation is necessity of the years to
come.
w. The objection that minority might force pro.
hibition upon unwilling majority by means Of
constitutional amendment is unpatriOtic and ground
less.
/. 1t is unpatriotic because it is not SO much
criticism OF this movement 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
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 to hold against the amendment
If they should hold every one of the fourteen-which
they will notby the last those States contained
only forty-one million of our nnetyone million popula
ton.
VERMONT ANTI.SALOON LEAGUE
"36" Let's Make Vermont One of Them "36"