Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1871-02-16
The Temperance Question.


to place the HERALD in an attitude Of
hostility to the temperance cause. La
their hot headed zeal to establish strict
ly temperance political party they &c,
angry because every other person is not
prepared to see the subject from their
standpoint. All that has been accom-.
plished for the temperance cause in Yer
mont thus far has been through the H.
strumentality of the Republican party,
and that party has never taken back
ward step upon this question. Why then
denounce every man who is not in favor
of the organic alton of a new party dis
tinctly upon that issue? Do they desire
to play lsue hand, and turn the cold
shoulder upon every individual who does
not agree with them, and class him as op-
posed to temperance. If this course is to
be continued by reviling, denouncing and
maligning every man who does not choose
to leave the Republican party to join this
new Organization, reaction in public
sentiment will take place and tho cause Of
Temperance will be retarded in the pro-
gress of the good work of restraining the
sale of intoxicating drinks, and thus a
public injury be inflicted upon society.
Yet if the wholesale condemnation of indi-
viduals must be their course of political
action, then thousands who have hitherto
acted from principle and from an earnest
desire to sweep out or annihilate, or at
least, restrain by prohibitory statutes the
sale of rum, must submit to the ostracism,
and the fen go on in their own course
until they ruin their new party, and the
cause of Temperance becomes weakened,
and the sale of liquor has no legal re-
straints to guard the public from it's
ravages Such is the sure destiny of this
new party and the prohibitory law, if
these radical zealots 60 on in the course
they have inaugursted.
The Rutland Independent in the bitter
ness Of it's wrath, because the HERALD
saw fit to rebuke reverend bigot, for
falsehood publicly uttered in the late
County Temperance Convention, in re.
ference to the course pursued in the
Hotel war, ia Rutland, in its last issue
endeavors TO mislead the public in refer
ence to our position upon this question,
and by insinuating falsehood, attacks the
Editor of the HERALD personally.
The assertion that the HERALD took a
two-sided position on the temperance
question is an unqualified falsehood,
whether uttered by the Rev. Mr.. Austin
on the floor of the Convention, or by the
Editor of the Independent, through his
colu .uns. The, position taken by the
HERAI.0 on the Hotel question ia sane
toned by uine-tenths of the temperance
men ia Rutland County. Now let Mr..
Austin and Mr. Mclean and their fol-
lowers canvass this county, and tell US
who is correct.
These gentleman are hot satisfied with
attacking the HERALD and its editor,
but in their desire for blood, evincing a
malicious and wanton disposition, they
endeavor TO strike a blow at Mr.. B. W.
Bnrt, rhe Castleton cor espOndent of the
HERALD. This is attacking one in the
hon ehold OF faith. In so doing, it ia in
simulated that his acts have become demon
allied, and his allegiance to the cause of
tenn GRANGE weakened by the daily perusal
of the HERALD This attack upon one of
the stauuchest friends of the temperance
cause in this country or State Is a wanton
outrage, for which there can be no defence
except that of blinded and depraved dis
position on the part OF the writer. MIR.
Bar, for more than twenty-five years,
has been one of the frank out-apoken
friends, fighting rum on all occasions and
in every place, When such men are
made the subject of low and veuemous
dings, well may the cause of temperance
cry out, Save Us from our friends !" Mr..
Burt wa4 making opposition to the sale of
Intoxicating liquors even when the senior
editor Of the Independent was a known
ally of the rum power and engaged in its
traffic. Snch attacks upon Mr.. Burt,
therefore, oome with ill-grace from such
q source.
In his immaculate purity the editor of
the Independent, as a censor of the pub
lilo welfare proceeds to draw from his cri-
ticism of Mr.. Burt, the moral "be careful
in the selection of your reading We
suppose this means, that all the morality,
purity, temperance and virtues of life are
locked up in the Independent. Well, then,
the HERALD must have at least some vir-
tue, is not quite lost, for the columns of
that sheet are filled each week with ar
ticles from the Daily Rutland HERALD,
copying blunders and all. Why take
40 much constantly from the HERALD, if
it 10 SO stepped in sin and iniquity, and is
daily moulding the opinions of the pub
lie in the ways of death. If the HERALD
Is such an immoral sheet why does the
immaculate editor of the independent give
nearly all its local column, to extracts
and articles from the HERALD without
credit or comment. The brazen impu-
dence of our cotemporary are surprising
and Notifying to the earnest and true
friends of Temperance in this county; they
boldly deny that he is their mouth piece.
If be is the agent or exponent of the views
ofthe Rutland county temperance society,
1t is untrue to its professions and has no
claim upon the temperance people of Rut-
land county for their support. Such hot
headed zeal as is now being manifested
by him in attacking individuals by insin.
uating falsehood, will drive hosts of the
friends of temperance from the advocacy
Such vituperation and exhibition of mall
ice in the advocacy of good cause never
did bring it friends and never will while
true manhood is one of the elements of
human character. .......