Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1857-05-14
A Temperance Organ.

II CHI pei AACO NJ San
Mr.. EDITOR Since the Standard dropped
the title Temperance" and the distinctive
character that title designated, the Wdnt OF an
organ for the temperance cause, Society ana
Executive Committee in Vermont has been pal
pable and much felt. And | perceive by the
April ProhlbitioniSt. that two members OF our
Executive Commute have written to that pa
per touching the matter in hand; and 1t APP
pears, from their letters, that the Prohibitton'1
has been recommended, in Committee meetings,
as our State Temperance organ. One of the
writer's speaks the recommendation as having
been carried and the other speaks OF 1T as defer
red to u future meeting. We take it that tn g
latter is correct.
As to the propeiety of making the PrOhib'-
ZIONIST our State Temperance organ, permit
word of remark. The PrOhibit'onist is very
able and efficient temperance paper, and IN the
absence of ono of kindred character, in Yer
mont, will be somewhat extensively taken and
read by the friends of the cause in our common
wealth But we can hardly persuade ourself
that the Executive Committee will recommend.
or that the people will adopt, this paper, as
our State organ. And for sundry very good
reasons. We mention some of them. The
Prohib,tionist is the organ Of another Nate,-
viz the State of New York. This, we conceive,
units it to be the organ Of Vermont If the
paper is sufficiently local in its character to ans
wer it's ends as the New York orgaa, the organ
of that State Society and Executive Committee,
why it is thereby rendered unfit to serve this
State in the same capacity. If the Prohibitions
is is so general in its character as to be as good
for one State as another, why then it is unfit for
any particular State as an organ. But this is
not the case. The paper is intensely devoted
to the interests of the New York State Temper
ance Society and this, its greatest merit for
that State is its great disqualifying feature as
an organ for Vermont.
That New York temperance matters are not
, only mullifarious enough for one paper. but
g diverse from ours, is too plain to need comment.
/
this shows that it cannot answer our purpose as
s State organ. If it is asked how does it ans
E wer in New York, If it would not in Vermont
r the reply is, there are several other temper
: ance papers in New York, published week,y--
which can contain notices and circulars to he
s issued before the month comes around. So, il
l the ProhibtioniM were adopted as our organ
e we should have to depend on weekly, local pa
8 pers for good many of our official and loca
d temperance communications. And the very
n fact Of the Prohibihonist being issued bu
Y once month, shows that it must, in the nature
e Of the case, be 50 filled with New York matter
!, as either to exclude Or give little room for GU
d matters.
If Sd, The Inconvenience of the thing. Sup
}, pose the Prohibiton'st has room enough, issue
Il often enough, IS congena enough in its aim
is and devotion, (and it is neither of these) afte
n all it is distant and out of our State and ever
Re one can see how inconveniert it must be t
conduct our temperance affairs through its col
N umns as our organ, Every Editor and Printe
st must know how diff cult it must be, in certai
IN cases, to get proof corrected and articles print
- ed as they are written. We opine, that this in
m convenience would be so felt in short time. o
to experiment, as to ALLEVIATE every one from tb
ID project.
id 4th, The humiliation and disgrace of tn
It. thing Are we behind New York in temperate
l matters, that we need to 90 there to be brough
ne up! Are we so much weaker that we need t
Id go there for strength Vermont a mere colon
to New York on Temperance! Every son c
the Green Mountains ought to be red wit
shame at the thought. And so every tempe,
ance son will.
81 5lh The project implies our want of publ
- spirit, and so our moral delinquency. TIL
:. Standard has been well supported and tn
h. temperance people Of Vermont are able an
willing to support an organ of their own i
g; their own State, provided any one has the coui
age to publish it. So we believe. But .
there is nothing of the kind on foot taking
for granted that Mr. Baliou has given up tn
- idea of publishing the Independent Reformer
why shou ldn't our Executive Committee De-
>. ignate some one of our State papers as Ten
=. perance organ for the present And as II
=. Freeman is now friendly to the cause, and h,
- double the circulation of any other paper
-, the State, why not designate that G.
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