Rutland herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1823-1847, 1842-07-05


We would not speak even Of the drunkard as
worthless. No, he has an inestimable value con-
sldered as one who has a capacity 20 be reformed
He may be restored to uSefnlpcss he NAV rise to
responsibilities dignity; he may land o that
such might at last be his lot ascend even TO the
angelic abodes and share in the new song and
palms OF victory. But his sIlsceptibiIites of re-
form, and all of which, in the uncertain future,
he may and ought to be, cannot compensate Yer
mont for any part of what, in the time already
past, he has not been, by reason of intoxicating
beverages
An estimate of the damage L the State in
merely economical view we metiion last not be-
cause is the greaest-for in hct it deserves not
to be put in the scale against ether of the lorego
ing,-but because to some niin6s ii may seem the
most definite and tangible Keeping, then to the
standard already adontpd we u ast set deyxn as an
nual loss the proouchvec vabor Il SilhRfBo6sand
men. Not that drunkards perform no labor
They do much; but the useful value of that much
is considerably if not wholly absofbedby their mis-
steps, their accidental losses by breakage and fire.
by the distraction they bring to the Systematic in
dustry OF their innocent families, and lastly, by
their crimes. And, at all events if we throw in,
to balance, the eneryatng effects ofdram drinking
upon multltudes who are not, as vet, in he ranks
oil drunkenness, we have enough to make it mani
fest that no unfairness is used towards aleoho by
charging in the account of loss forthe Vear.with
the full labor of eight thousand men But this, if
there be any truth in statistical returns is enormous
ly moderated by putting it at three, or even at five
millions otdollars annually. Take thelast amount,
however, as less amount than either--the OBJ
Ject is not now exact estimates but 10 show that in
computing the damage, we must count not BY hum
dreds, nor by hundreds ofthousands but by mill
lons,-for, although we have thus far considered
the state OF things in years just past we have to
own, even now, dimmution but little exceeding
one eighth of the whole, as in those wears il stood
Why, what people are wei Waichful against
taxes-jealous of governmental Expenditures
even for the love of our children Sustaining the
expense of a common school system comparable
with that of states upon two sides us we vet qui
city sustain the imposition of losses aud expenses
which as greatly outweigh all the frs mentioned
eXpendtures,as mountains outweigh tlt little hills
Sustain the imposition 2-we ourselves impose
them? We impose them by CIR board 81. license
by our merchants, by our Cups and p5htons, =
Strong advocates for home production fe IN thi'
instance, have sent abroad hundreds oi thousand,
of specie or its equivalents, to bring 81 what W
Justly deem unfit to be manufactured h,Sr Wha
is the,eXpanation of this glazing incoj - ecv q
a sober and strong-minded people x-Nes.
tne WONDERS ~ tne age that, under tn ~
of rum, the greater has changed place with tn,
less, and cents become of more worth than dol
lars2 Call for the all important explanation thro
the mountain towns and valley retreats.-ask it il
the villages of the plain and along the shores
manliness, moral virtue, thrift household man
agement and peace, good neighborhood and dc
mestic affection are to be merged and lost whou
exciting dissatisfaction and an effort to preserv
the m; one maxim,a least, is settled as weconceiv
millions oftreasure are not
June %, 1912