Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1862-04-25
Written for the Lamoille Newsdealer.
TEMPERANCE.

Mr.. ED1ToR.-If it may please
you, permit me through your paper, to
say few words on the temperance, Or
rather liquor question, for it seems to me
that our country at present, is ruled more
by liquor than by temperance principles.
1t looks very sad and strange, but never
theless true, that human beings, calling
themselves men, should so debase them
selves by the use of strong drink in any
form, as many do, and only to crafty a
depravcd appetite, from which can arise
no possible good, but untold and never
ending evil. but sad and sickening as it
is, it is so; and think the evil is in
creasing. The causes Of this increase
are various. l am of the opinion that
all professedly temperance men are not
what they should be- They don't put in
practice what they preach to others. And
of course the example will have the great
or influence on community. | have seen
some, who were "pig at home, but puppy
abroad" The more such men we have
amongst US, the faster, the temperance
cause will 60 down. Their influence is
all on the wrong side. 1t is worse than
that of the ditch drunkard for he is
loathsome to every body, and if he had any
influence at all, it is on the side of tenn
,perancc. l need not say that tho hypo-
critical professor in any good cause, does
that cause an injury. To secure success
in the temperance cause, we must 60 at 1T
with will. The temperance army has to
fight against the bascst appetite in man,
and our weapons, the principal one of
which is moral courage, are not yet
brought up to so high state of perfec-
tion, as those of our opposing force, either
by use or culture.
To succeed in our cause, we wust make
the most powerful and untiring efforts.
We have to grapple with the most brutal
izing appetite within us. Every observ-
ing mind has seen it, and knows that
strong drink will, and does degrade the
noblest works of God," to such an extent
that he will become the most loathsome
thing on earth the higher and nobler
powers all being burned out, leaving a
mere wreck of humanity; fit dwelling
for, and filled with dancing satyrs. Yet
many of natures good men begin, and go
on in its use, and give countenance to its
, use, till our land is filed with all the
long pharaphernalia of woes that are
'gendered, fostered, and fatten in its train.
Must it ever be so? 1t need not. If all
the true friends of humanity would cast
about and see, and know how they stand
in the matter, and come out and do their
duty, according to the dictates Of their
own consciences, intemperance would soon
be swept from our land and ere long, al
tchohol would be clased as it should be,
with drugs and medicines, and dealt out
as such, if used at all. But the time for
that has not come yet Ii VIC can at pres
,ent carry out the true intent of our pres
,ent Liquor Law, we shall do better than
we have done, a.
RI. The enemies Of the Law have it mostly
their own way. They have the county
commissioner, though a man that | es-
tcem, and one that is deservedly held in
high repute, generally, but yet, he is not
q man that will fully carry out the intent
Of the law as its friends understand it.
think that if the principles that elected
him, were fully carried out, (and disposed
Of, as they should bc) there would be