Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1871-02-23

WEST RUTLAND. Hon. David e.
Nicholson gave temperance address be-
fore the West Rutland Temperance As.
ISOLATION on Monday evening, Feb. goth,
at Central Hall, and to say it was good
would not do it justice. The audience
(which was large) were unanimous in its
praise as being excellent. He commenced
by saying that he believed the legal pro-
fession were IS thoroughly temperance in
principle and practice as any class Of pro-
fessional men, and that he with DR.. Shell
don worked side by side in all the really
temperance movements, and had always
been lifelong temperance man, and in
every official capacity had sought the well
fare of society. He plainly set forth the
meaning of the word temperate, believing
that the temperate man took only what
the system required, and that was simply
the aliment natural and necessary for
the system-anything which was Excess
sive in character was intemperance and
gluttony as we'll, as an excessive use of
alcoholic drinks, were a transgression OF
a natural law, and sure punishment
would be melted out for such transgres-
sion. He said he should ever extend pity
to the poor inebriate who had lost control
of himself, and who needed the strong
arm of the law to protect him from the
death dealing rumseller, and believed the
curse of Heaven would rest upon those
who for paltry sum would sell stimu-
lants to those who had no control of them
selves, and in rumselling lay all the evil
or the main evil arising from its use.
He questioned the declaration too often
made by hotel keepers, that they must
keep rum for travellers, when it was a
known fact that the crowds of "guzzlers"
thronging every bar room were there
simply to get their "little dram" and
annoy travellers. He said it was enough
for a man to drink at home, where he
could receive the protection of wife and
children, rather than to be found in trans
erosion hundreds of miles away from
loved and caring ones. He said if hotels
would have we'll appointed dining rooms,
neat and tidy, and plenty~of wholesome
food, they could be kept without strong
drink, but such was not always the case.
| He warned his hearers of prepared
coffee" having upon the paper fine pic
ture, as it was nothing more or less than
"refuse hard tack" from every emigrant
ship landed upon our shores. And whilst
dining at fashionable hotel not far from
Rutland, the waiter in asking to replenish
second cup asked him if he would have
tea or coffee. Well he said if the first
cup was tea he would have coffee, and if
the first was coffee he would have tea,
and the large party being like imposed
upon appreciated the merited rebuke.
He said the plea of the rum SELLER was
r'the moral rum seller that he sold to
only those who were morally good; sell
to those who are good and make all bad
must certainly be the work of one lost to
all that is good-a debasipg work. He
said he believed in the efficacy of the pro-
hibitory liquor law, and it needed only
the combined efforts of temperance men to
make such it power as would close every
rum shop in the land, and offer absolute
protection to the young men of our day.
He believed that the law was sufficient
for the emergency, and no distinct politi-
cal organization was necessary to suppress
the traffic in Intoxicating drinks.
| The orator will excuse me for having
SO unfsithfully reported such meritori-
Gus address-so full of thought and good
counsel. May the true principles incul-
Gated in this address not be lost to the
many who heard. JEM.