Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1872-06-28
Symbolic Cabinet Society of West
minister, Vermont.


minister, Vermont.
Whereas, the evils of intemperance
are still prevalent in community, and
agencies are yet at work, tending to the
harm of our otherwise prosperous Union,
tending to lead the old and young into
habits destructive of their prosperity
and happiness, and, whereas the love of
unrighteous gain in the traffic of intoxi-
eating drinks, is the continuing cause OF
this great evil.
Therefore. we, youth of Westminster,
in the State of Vermont, not yet by age
qualified to vote, and thus legislate
against the manufacture and sale Of in
toxicating drinks, do, by hereunto sub
scribing our names, pledge ourselves to
abstain from the use of intoxicating
drinks and declare our purpose to work
according to our several powers to Sc
cure the abandonment of the said traffic
by means of the votes of those who have
the power to legislate thereon.
And as initiative of our work in this
cause of humanity, we do hereby form
ourselves and our associates, who may
hereafter subscribe, into an organization
known and designated as the Symbolic
Cabinet Society of Westminster, Yer
mont, whose object is to suppress the traf-
fic in, and the manufacture of intoxicat-
ing drinks.
To secure the systematic and contin-
ued good working of our benevolent as
ISOLATION, we adopted the following:
CONSTITUTION.
1. The society shall be designated the
Symbolic Cabinet Society of Westmins-
ter, Vermont.
2. Any girl or boy of Westminster
may become member by pledging
himerself* to total abstinence from in.
toxicating drinks, subscribing this con-
stitution and paying ten cents into the
treasury thereof; and may continue a
member by keeping the pledge and pay.
ing annually thereafter ten cents.
3. The object of this society is, and
shall be to suppress the manufacture and
sale of intoxicating drinks; and to this
end will meet on the first Saturday of
each month, to extemporize or hear read
or spoken in prose or verse, prepared
discussions, dialogues or essays on the
blessings of temperance and the evils OF
intemperance, also to set forth by paint
ing or any forms of hand-work, reasons,
arguments or other persuasives for the
total abandonment and suppression of
the manufacture and sale of intoxicat-
ing drinks, particularly by the pTepara.
ton of symbolic cabinents for mutual
exchange between ourselves and the
youth of other towns on either side OF
the Atlantic, who may have united for
purposes similar to our own signifying
by said cabinet that the sale of sand
would be less evil in the vender and
greater good to the buyer than that
of Intoxicating drink-in short, would
be true economy in the premises individ.
ually and socially.
The officers of the society elected an.
nually, shall be president, three vice
presidents, recording Sc cretary, cor
responding secretary, librarian anG
custodian, treasurer and an executive
committee, on which committee the fore
named officers may serveas members ex
officio.
The several officers shall perform the
duties usually pertaining to correspond
ing officers in parliamentary usage; they
shall hold office till the annual meeting
or till others are elected to fill their pla
ces. Meetings of the society may be
called by the recording secretary at the
written request of four members OF the
society.
Westminster VT, June Is, 1872.
*,The word himerself above is employed as equiv.
to himself or herself word as a substitute for
three.
Subsequent to the temperance jubilee
June Is, the youth of Westminster, at
the school house in the district contain.
ing Oven Ledge, formed a temperance as
ISOLATION adopting the foregoing pream-
BILE and constitution, and electing as tenn.
porary officers:
Katie G. Fuller, President.
Emma Leach, Recording Secretary.
Mabel Leach, Corresponding Secreta.
ry.
Mary McCloud, Treasurer and Custo
dian.
The following is added for the convenience Of
youth in any towns or villages of the Union:
We, youth of -- hereunto
signing our names adopt the preamble
and constitution, promulgated on oven
ledge as above seen, in place Of West
minister substituting that
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