Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1871-02-03

ooclety recently reOrganlZed with a new c0nsiitu-
ton, providing for a committee in each town to
circulate the pledge.
c. L VAIL,
Delegate from lrs>burgh.
RUTLAND COUNTY.
We have in Rutland County eighteen lodges
OF Good Templars with An average membership
OF one hundred, or eighteen hundred pledged
members in the county. These lodges hold week
/ ly meetings, and with one or two exception, are
increasing in numbers and efforts to save the
fallen. We have also County Good Templars'
/ unlcD, which holds its meetings every three
months. The Union thus far has been a success
in securing harmony and a more united action
I throughout the county. We have also a County
/ open Temperance Society Of long standing, and
some town societies In Rutland we have
Ladies Temperance Association doing an effec-
tive work And on the whole the great cause Of
/ temperance stands better day than ever be-
| fore in the county Of Rutland. May the good
/ work 60 brAvely on.
NEWMAN WEEKS,
Sec Cool Tempars Union.
WASHINGTON COUNTY.
/ The Washington County Temperance Society
holds its regular annual meeting. but is making
no especial effort in the cause Of Temperance
| There is in some Of the towns a town Temperance
Society, but none Of these is doing much st pre-
sent. There are twelve Lodges OF Good lem
| plsrs, with from 40 to 100 members each. and
active working societies There are three Tenn
/ PIES Of Honor. active, and in good working con-
dition.
5. ? DRLw
WiSDHAM COUNTY.
Three lodges Of Good Templars four Of Cool
Samaritan organizations , several town organi-
cations. o. T. BuTrcRFIELD
WINDSOR COUNTY.
There is in Windsor county at the present
time nine lodges Of Good Iemplars. numbering
about four hundred and fifty members, all in
good working order One Temple Of Honor Of
fifteen members One Division Of Sons Of Tenn
perance, located al Woodstock, numbering sixty
/ five members, have met every Saturday evening
since 1878, a county organization Of more age
than worth. Town societies quite numerous,
/ that breathe onCe yesr, sad some others that
breathe, If at all, not near as often As that.
/ Windsor county is nc. doing her duty at the
present time. 6. W. FoGGETr.
Springfield, ".
Oae hundred aud forty-fye Good Templar
lodges were reported As established in the state,
with a membership Of lO,O33 besides several
lodges Of Sons Of Temperance, Rechabites and
God SamaritAns.
Rev. Mr.. Mills Of huilaai gave some facts
relating to the Ladies Temperance Association
Of Rutland. I, represented the various differ
ent religious societies, with ladies belonging to
10 particular denomination Their meetings
were always successful. They had had much TO
30 with the recent temperance movement and
enforcement Of the law in Rutland. aud be
thought til. cooperation Of the women should
je more generally secured
Or. Jewet; related a case in which the Slus Of
Temperance aided in starting an outside society
Of those who lid not favor a close society, and
the two worked in perfect harmony, till the last
rumshop in the town (Niide5ury, Mass,
was closed He was always tory to see rival CT
CARNATIONS working against each other, and
forcibly urged the duty Of united action in the
common cause.
Mr.. Butterdel1, from the committee % reso-
buttons, reported the following
RESOLUTIONS.
J. Res-lccI, That the obligation Of parental
example. instruction and authority, as means
Of saving children from the perils OF intemper-
Anoe, is imperative, and can be measured by
nothing less than the value Of The children thus
exposed.
. Res5ir,i. Thst we recommend a total ali
stinence pledge, containing the nsmes Of al
members Of the household who will slgu It. TO
be kept in every family, where il may be daily
seen by al itt members
8. Resolrcl That Juvenile Temperance So
cieties should be organized, under proper lead
ere, as among the most promising means Of keep
ing children from the use Of strong drink, and
speedily securing for our country generation
Of sober and viTtuous citizens.
T. Rcs0ircd, That the advantages Of tenn
persncs societies, under disciplinary govern
ment, are 20 obvious as to render one or more
Of such organizations expe1ient, in some form,
in every town.
8. Relipei, That by the divine command
TO abstain from all appearance Of evil the +
church Is under IS strong an obligation Of total
abstinence from intoxicating drinks. as auy
other organization, and should not be less rigid I
than other organizations in their discipline Of its
members under this rule
g. Res0lued. That the churches Of Vermont .
with the cooperation Of the temperance organ
izations, hold the power Of determining the .
issues Of the temperance cause in this State, and
their responsibility must be equal 10 such .
power.
Z. Resqlrs1, Tha, it Is the proper work q
the pulpit and Of the press TO create public
sentiment aud feeling against al popular vices,
and especially against that great parent Of other
vices the common traffic in intoxicating drinks
5 WkereGs, No enterprise can be successfully
prosecuted, nor any organization be long eficient
without financial basis; and
HHere1s, The Vermont State Temperance
Society has no such basis. and consequently is
less influential than the needs Of the cause and
the interests Of the State reqaire
Res0ired, That a committee Of three members
Of this body be appointed to take into considers
ton the facts above stated, and devise some plan
for Supplying this defect in our State organizA-
ton and report the same to the Convention be
fore its close.
O. Resolred, That it Is the duty Of Temper
ince men to give their preferred patronage to
such papers as are most positively committed in
favor OF our cause, and that ministers who
shrink from the duty Of preaching on all proper
sgainst the sin Of in;emperance and
the common rum ;rafic, are not worthy Of the
support OF temperance men.
10. Resolre4, That all moral means should
be used with indefstigsble zeal to save the young
from falling into the use Of intoxicating
drinks, and to reclaim moderate drinkers and
lrunksrds from their downward path.
II. Resolred, Believing that the custom Of
]fering wine to New Years guests and on
similar occasions is one of the most fruitful
sources of intempersnce, by forming taste for
intoxicating liquor and making drunkenness
therefore resolved, that we entirely
condemn all such customs and will do our
Utmost to bring about reform in this respect
md that we call upon ali friends Of temperance,
he church and the press to sid in destroying
his pernicious practice
y Res0lrei, That as moral influences are
United in their efficiency to such as are suscep-
ible to them, the State should provide the most
igid legal measures to restrain those who, in
lefance Of all moral sense, are leading others to
un by selling intoxicating drink.
10. Resolred, That druggists who violate the
aw in selling intoxicating drinks deserve the
anne penalties as other offenders against q just
md righteous ls'I.
IA. Resolued. That as it is the uuquestionable
Iuty of the State to provide the most efectual
measures for preventing and suppressing crime,
We therefore recommend the provision BY our
lext legislature for a State police for this pur-
,ose
10. ReS0ired, inst we 10 hOt tnihA IL eAPe-
lent at the present time to organize an indie
,endent political temperance party in Vermont,
or immediate and unconditional separate ac-
ion. but that we deem some sort Of organization
f our political forces expedient. Therefore we
l. That State Committee be appointed by
his Convention, consisting of three from esch
ounty, and that any vacancy existing or occur
ing in such committee before another general
convention may be filled by the remainder OF
uch committee.
. That it shall be the duty Of such commit
ee to watch all nominations made at regular
political State and County Conventions. and
whenever, in the Judgment Of such State Com
nittee, no ticket has been nominated by any OF
UGH political State Conventions as can be con-
cientiously supported by true temperance men,
t shall be their duty to prepare and publish
UGH State ticket as they can recommend, con-