Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1869-04-15
The Ladies ana Temperance.


Our Ladies' Temperance Association,
we are happy to report is growing IN
strepoth and soon we trust is to become
a great power in our midst. The tidal
wave will surely sweep away all obstacles
to our principles, our light shining, clear,
beautiful and invigorating as the merid-
ian sun. We would commend to the
readers of the Daily HERALD, the peru
sal of the success of our parent society in
an adjoining State. We leave you to
Judge for yourselves what its offspring
must necessarily be. x.Yz.&.
The following is taken from the Wey-
mouth Mass Gazette, Of March Goth:
LADIES TEMPERANCE UNIoN.-This
enterprise continues to be, what, indeed
it has been from the beginning, a success
This is not said boastingly, for we are
sensible that the humble measures that we
have devised for the good of the COM
munity, would have been powerless with
out the overruling blessing of God. In
all our plans we have earnestly implored
his direction, and we believe that we have
been providentially led, from one step to
another, until our unpretending Ladies
Union has become power in the place.
Our society is steadily increasing in
numbers, and also in enthusiasm. We
number now about two hundred ladies
active, earnest, intelligent women, who
visit the sick and the dying. who listen
with heaven-born sympathy to the sor-
rowful tales of the poor drunkard's
family, and who, if they are not already
a terror to the liquor-sellers, are going to
be. We have no lazy, passive commit
tees We don't hold meetings to accom-
plish nothing There was more real bust
ness done in our last meeting than has
been accomplished by our state legisla-
ture during the past winter.
We work without pay, too. Women
would scorn the idea of sitting day after
day in the State House, receiving money
that they did not earn money that is
needed to pay the national debt that OPP
presses us like a nightmare. In this re-
spect, the freely given, unpaid labors of
our society may well serve AS a model for
tho country.
We are exerting wide influence We
receive letters from the ladies of distant
towns, in other States, who are inspired
by our example to organize societies SINH
lar to ours, and who ash for counsel in re-
gard to the best method of doing so. 1t
would not astonish us If our fiourishin9
Union should be the parent of innumera-
BILE branch societies all over the United
States.
We are now organizing a Band Of Hope
in connection with our Union. The
young people and the children are to .bc
enlisted and properly instructed before
they learn the manifold denominations
which make up both the reehng topper and
the genteel '.rummy"
NV pen.- it is a woman's pen. remem-
ber-is aching to reveal some of the noble
but delicious plans that we have under
consideration, and which must be kept
secret for little time in order to insure
their success 1t Is the delight of a true
woman's heart to confer happiness, and it
is this trait Of character which makes it
so hard to conceal, even for time, what
will be so delightful when known. But
it is no secret that we shall furnish a
series of interesting lectures, and shall be
careful to procure lecturers who will not
shock either the moral or religious sense
Of the audience lecturers TO whom ladies
can listen without blush Of shame.
The good time coming" Is almost here
Our sledge is pushed nearly to the top of
the hill; but we have given up our inten-
ton of riding down We like the wide
view frem the summit, and now we are
up, we prefer staying there. We kindly
invite those who were too feeble to help
push the sled, to come right III with W.
out of the cold. You'll freeze to death
out there. Our plateau is broad one ;
there's plenty of room; come right in.
We are too polite to ever say remember
Nobody shall ever ask you whether you
nobly toiled with US over the difficult
path, or whether you climbed up some
other way" Fl. @. GARDNER.
East Weymouth, March 22d, 1869.