Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1840-06-17

stopped till 1t has poured every dron NJ
the poison into the sea? We think tho
stand taken by the Protestant Vind;ca,a.
some of our venerable clergy. aoainst
Mr.. Matthew as a fanatic, a money NAL
er, &c. peculiarly unfortunate, and thai
by this time, with all their fears of Ro'
manism, they must bid him God speed
But whether they do or not, his course IS
onward. And if the Protestants of Emo
land and America will not come up to the
same cold water level, they mus moi be
surprised If there is an increased moral
power from a certain quarter which thew
Will find it difficult to resist. Providence
sometimes teaches US a solemn lesson in
this way. when in the pride of our heart
we say, We SEE. and yet, when We know
our duty, will do it not. The Protestan,
church IN England and America, has had
the tull light of the temperance reforma-
hon Tor more than five years, but how
nave her bishops and ministers and mem
oers shut their eyes and stopped their ears,
and gone or drinking of the deadly cuna
Perhaps He who rules in the kingdoms
OF men will now say to many of them,
1hey are gacen to idols, let them alone
we nope however, it will be otherwise.
and that throughout Protestant Europe
and America, there will be a strife for the
utter expulsion of the serpent from Eden.
Am. Temp. Union.
COLI WATER. The warm weather is
approaching. and good cold water will be.
as ever, a great luxury to the weary tray-
eller. Permit ust 10 suggest to all temper.
ance houses and soda rooms to furnish. at
one or two cents a tumbler, good mater.
There IS no reason why it should not be
sold, and we are sure that every body who
can be served with good water for money.
would prefer to buy, rather than beg, Dor
row or take. Let a board or sign be put
up at once, Water for a penny a tumb-
ler.' 1t will work well in our temper
ance houses, and many travellers will be
glad OF a new and appropriate way to aid
such houses and ifrum houses will only
keep a set of glasses that shall not be pol
l@ted wlb grog Stops. we recommend to
buy water there. We hope yet TO see ice
Water sold in the streets of all our cities.
by clean boys, with neat apparatus, at a
penny a tumbler." This would prove
a great accommodation, in the frs, nlace.
and then 1t would save many a thirsty
person from dropping into those places
where something stronger is purchased 10
allay thirst, without appearing mean
Such an arrangement will prove a ID roaon-
sng-out-pIan in our varied warfare against
dram.shops.-Boston Journal.
HARD CIDER. At a public meeting of
the Connecticut State Temperance Soeie-
ty at New Haven, on the 23d ult. the Rev.
Mr.. Bacon thus alluded to the hard cider
humbug.-Am. Temp. Union.
"Wlthin three or four months, Iutem-
Per0nce has become the badge of a polit-
ical party!-The hard money humbug
was hard enough-but the hard cider
humbug will prove more disastrous to the
country, and more degrading to those con-
cerned in i. Yes, intelligent men-men
who have enjoyed the benefits of christian
teachings-who live in a land of gospel
llght-are called upon to exhibit their en-.
thusiasm in a political strife, by drinking
hard cader, made harder by hard brandt,
for the glory of General Harrison Yes
at these conventions and committee
rooms, many a young man will take his
first lessons in drunkenness, which will
bring him to the almshouse or the prison.
and the d~runkard's grave! More than
ten thousand men will be made drunkards
in one year. by this hard cider enthusi-
asm."