Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1845-04-25
VOL. xxx, NO. 24.--wHOLE NO. POLO.

kept the pledge far as to abstain ourselves and
talk in favor Of the cause, we have lived up TO all
the obligations Of our engagement We must en-
ploy all honorable methods 10 prevent the use of
those liquors beverage, and in order to do this,
to discountenance the trade in these elements of
misery, death and destruction. Most assuredly we
have no wish to interfere with the business and prof
It's OF our neighbors when they do not interfere with
the interests and welfare Of the community. But
we cannot consistently with an imperious sense of
duty support, or even countenance but on the con-
trary must withdraw from and dscountenance that
trade which multipllesand spreads wide such evils
as the ruin of health, families, morals, reputation,
estates, and their concomitants, embracing pauper.
ism, crime, taxation and general decay. And we
show little of that zeal and those exertions which
our pledge contomplates, when, because, forsooth,
we can trade little cheaper at store or grocery
in certain articles, or can get little more splendid
accommodations at tavern-or it is more popular
to call there-we trade and put up at those estab-
lishments, where the very article our society
| and pledge were formed and taken to bring into
disuse, is sold, and sold too, where we know it is
spreading misery and death on every hand. Why
! is it, that those stores and groceries can afford
those certain articles cheaper than others? suppo-
sing such TO be the fact though it is often other
wise. Why is it that some sprit-selling taverns
can afford you better-rather more stylish accom-
modatons than the temperance taverns? Because
in the one case the stores and groceries have made
and are making such profits on that article of
death you are seeking to destroy, that they can
undersel their honest neighbors; and in the other
case the liquor selling taverns have made such
profits in the same traffic, that they have been
enabled to furnish themselves, from the very a.
vais of this traffic, (which you pledged to up
root and destroy-honorabib with those more
splendid accommodations and thus attract and con-
troll the popular tide.
> Let us henceforth look to these things and en-.
courage those who will not, for sordid gain, en-
gage in this trade of death, There are six
spirit selling taverns in Montpelier village, and
there is but one Temperance tavern. Can it be
that the village the town. the county or State at
s fords such great dsproportion Of enemies tc
n friends of the cause of Temperance as indicated
by this number Of our taverns? Surely not.
n am credily informed-even from the mouths Of tau
+ ern keeperS-that the Temperance tavern is sup
# ported in great measure by those who are no
: members of the Temperance Society; while, oil
!, the other hand, those taverns engaged in the salt
n of intoxicating drinks are supported general,
and literally by the pledged friends and advocate
J. of our cause. Here, am persuaded, lies great
if not the greatest, obstruction to the progress
the enterprise at the present time And to its re
l. vival let us one and all address ourselves, wit
N equal promptness, kindness, decision and
PATIENCE.