Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1858-04-09

s;bilitv resting on them, but still they haraeh
their conscience suppose, in view ofthe ungodly
gain that they obtain on the liquors they FURNISH
the agents-this, am told. some have aohe' per
haps it was condition of their agency given
Agents ought to understand that the fact that
they are agents, gives them no right to seu ior
beverage, and if they do. that they are as hao'e
to an indictment for so doing as any other man
would be, and temperance men ought 10 see tIia'
the law is fully enforced in such cases nay
opinion is that if towns cannot have agents iegal'
ly appointed who win sell strictly within the
/ limits of the law, that they had better' great
deal not have any. To this point wish to call
| the attention of temperance men. Our law VIII
be worse than useless lift is allowed to be tram
pied down in this manner; in this way 1t IS used
by the opposers as an engine to SPREAD oroao
cast, misery, voc and ruin. If there ever was
a time when temperance men should wake up IL
is the present time. desperate effort Is oeihg
made by the enemy to overthrow the cause NO
measures are too mean to be employed. Ii there
is not strong effort to inaugurate bod reckless
and defiant political party on the basis of rumoc'
racy, then am no judge of the matter. To this
end the rum loving supporters OF the present
dominent party in the State, will have their at
tentlon directed by demagogues filled with cum
ming artifce. The banners are being uniurieo
and all the advocates for the ndiscriminate sale
; of liquors are called upon TO rally to unite II
, brea king down our most wholesome antrlquoi
law. VIII temperance men say there IS no dam
ger. So thought the friends of the cause II
l Maine, and while they were taking Il nap th'
I enemy repealed their law, which has resulted II
most deporable consequences.
There is no better way to make our law PoPu
/ lar and place it on firm basis, than to enforce
q calmly, perseveringy, promptly and with fideli
-. ty upon every transgressori its practical utn!t.
will then be seen. IN towns where it has BEEF
: the most rigidly enforced, it stands the higheS
G in the public favor. Letting it become a dea
. letter will put an argument into the mouths Q
our opponents in favor Of its repeal; indeed 1t
claimed now that it cannot be enforced, and nlu;
l. therefore be repealed-butit can be enforced 9
IS well rs our law against horse stealing, when tn
crime Of selling the villanous poisons is seen
its true light. When the opposers will do =
Il much TO sustain it as they do now to break
d down, when they will work as hard to reior
% men as they do now to debase them, when the
will DO as much 10 form correct public opinio
~ as they now do to corrupt it, the difficulties vi
II all disappear; the mountain is one of their oW
t. / creating. However, temperance men ought n
to tire, to say they can Go nothing BY unit
Of effort they can do much; ours is the cause
5r truth, OF right, Of humanity and of Justice
Mt christians, al good citizens ought to unite IN
ging forward the enterprise TO its final triumph
unless they do, rum will run riot with all Its d
!" Wasting influences. Our young men, the hope
e, the future, the support of infrnty and Old ag
xt will be swept Of; cur daughters, the object
k. our affection and solicitude, will form those I
liances that inevitably result in lives of disf
no pointment and heart broken sorrow; the wido
,et heart viii break with unmitgated sorrow;
ON forlorn orphans will ask pity at our door;
-, gray haired sres will go down to their graves W
al sorrow multtudes of our fellow men will Sc
we fl drunkarIs graves. On whom will rest
- responsibility? VIII it not, in part ct least,
~ those who neglect 10 act, while they see the
Of ruin rushing in upon our fellow men.
A'e Yours for the cause of truth and right.
on Al. COPELAND,
he Agent for the VI. State Tenn. S.
Harlwick, April 2, 1888.