Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1870-09-29

license system is unjust, as by it one class
is allowed to force another to pay tax
for which they get no equivalent. The
use of strong drinks makes paupers and
criminals, and we temperance men unwil-
lingly have to pay for the support of one
and pursuing and Furnishing the other.
He advocated the compelling of rum sell
lers to pay the consequences of their traf-
fic, and closed his illusions to the excise
or license system by showing its folly in
the pertinent inquiry "Shall human leg.
islation authorize what God has forbid.
den?' The fact that a prohibitory Law
is on the statute books stamps rum selling
as crime and brands the sellers as out
laws, while with license system in force
their traffic Is legalized and the contrary
is wholly the case. You are told, he con-
tinued, that prohibition cannot be en-.
forced, and again that men sell just as
much rum now as before the law went
into operation and as they do In Statc-
where there Ia license system. In
reputation Of sfis charge Mr. Nc
Chesney went on to qnots from the
report Of Commissioner Wells to show she
revonue derived from the sale of liquor
IN different States. Mstne, with popu.
latfon of 100000, and prohieieory law in
force. cells liquors TO The amount annually
OF fifteen dollars for every inhabisant, and
THIS from the sale for ali purposes; Yer,
mont, with population Of $4,000, cells
to tia amount Of snenty .three dollars an
nually for every inhabissnt, while Mary
land. with o population Of 100000 in
round numbers, the same As thss OF
7 Maine, aud an excios law in force, sells
annually 0ns hundred dollars q0Ortb OF
liquor for egery aaha55taast. So much in
favor Of prohibition. No Law, be contin-
ued, can enforce itself, especially in gov
eminent Of the people, but must have a
healthy support by the people. The law
has only to DO enforced snd that is the
end OF the traffic. A vicious, depraved
condition OF public morals supports the
rum seller in his course. The rum drinker
is equally as bad as the seller and one goes
down as far rs the other. The hope for
the nation is in throwing safeguards
around our school system, and this can be
done by advocating Temperance better
| than by any other cause. He closed with
the remarks: Allow me to say that our
work is not yet done We must storm
the enemy's citadel and in that way attain
success. Right is omnipotent, and we
have il on our side. Let Us continue to
advance. We must never beat retreat
in the movement. Let Us p,rsovere, and
| God will grant US success in the end.
Tho address was followed by music by
the band, the singing by the Glee Club Of
"Hurrah for Old New England" and
the taking up ola collection to defray ox-
pensas of the getheriag, after which the
meeting adjourned It's frat session, and
the procession reformed in the order in
which it came and moved to the Town
HallGrove, where dinner was served. And
such dinner ! The very choicest deli
caoies and substantials of the homes of
the temperance ladies of Rutland county,
and partaken of under the broad canopy
of heaven by those who had assem-
bled to lend their voices and arms
to the furtherance and spread OF that
greatest If virtues with which God
originally endowed man-Temperance.
The dinner was traly grand affair, and
will long be remembered.
In the afternoon another meeting was
held at the Town Hall, at which soul
stirring addresses were made ~ Major Il.
NJ. Copeland Of Castleton, Rev. Mr. Potter
of Whitehall, Rev. MIR. nan or nu,las.3,
Rev. T. Mills Of Rutland, Rev. ". W. At
water of Fairhaven and Hon. John B,
Page of Rutland. The speakers took the
broad grounds Of the necessity of ouforo-
ing the law as it stands on the statute
books, compelling the rum seller 10 desist
from his illegal traffic and making him
responsible and nmenable to the law and
to individuals for damages which might
accrue from their sales, as well as extend
ing to the rum drinker such sympathy in
his misfortunes and throwing around him
such Influences as would tend to make
him desert his n,besetting, soul-destroy-
ing habit.
The speeches were interpreted with
music by the band, and a song "My soul
to God, my heart to Thee," by Miss Mary
Campbell Of Poultney, an accomplished
vocalist, was admirably rendered, and
merited, as it received, the applause Of
the entire audience. Miss frankie Burt
of Castleton, also sang very aocoptably
song whose sentiment was quite appropri-
ate il the singer and to the occasion, en-
titled I'm marry no man if he drinks"
At the conclusion of the addresses, and
additional vocal and instrumental music,
the meeting adjourned.
The affair was in all respects a success,
and though the rain, which fell during
the greater portion Of the day, tended, as
it must have, to lessen the numbers in at
tendance, those who attended will long
bear in mind pleasant recollections of the
temperance rally and picnic at Costleton.
New England Items.
--OAi0g to the small crop Of bay and
the scanty pasturage in Maine, a large
sn0nnt Of stock Ia beincr sold +hrot,.-Iro,,t