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Show A LIQtJOB LAW SYJn-KlnV From the Boston Herald. i It Is stated that in some of the larger towns of Vermont the llauor-selling interest in-terest is opposing the movement ln favor fa-vor of a license law which is being agitated agi-tated in that State at the present time. This anomalous condition of affairs can be accounted for only in one way. The business of these men who oppose a license li-cense law Is liquor selling, and of course, they want it to be aided rather than injured. The presumption ln the case must therefore be that a license ,law will work injury to them rather than aid. There must be further- reasoning rea-soning to the effect that they can sell more liquor by evading the present prohibition pro-hibition law than by engaging ln competition com-petition with others under a license law. There is thus direct evidence presented pre-sented of what has been often charged, that the enforcement of the prohibitory law is evaded by bribery of those whose duty it Is to carry it out or that public feeling is such that enforcement cannot be accomplished. Perhaps both causes operate; however this may be, the evidence evi-dence seems to prove prohibition a failure fail-ure in the larger towns of Vermont. |