The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1873-06-26
THE PROHIBuTIONIsT.

A desperate looking stranger yesterday
entered the GLOBE office. His hair was
,iisordered. There was wild expression
in his eyes. His face was pale, and he
was evidently suffering under extreme
agitation. He sat down by our table, and
drawing revolver, cooked 1t, and with
fierce look commenced raising II to level,
while with the other hand he extracted a
,owic knife from his bosom. Noticing his
hands tromblc, we suspected that he might
nat be well, and started TO go out hastily
for a DOCTOR
.'Stop !" he Numbered, II am Prohibit
ZIONIST, and have come 10 demand an ex-
pianation of the words 1T was a whitening
ycbukc to the prohibitionists,' which oc-
CURED recently in the GLOBE.
Informing him that nm explanation had
already been written, but was in the other
coat pocket, we went after it, but did not
lind il till nearly morning next day. and
upon returning to the Office the Prohibition
isi had left He can read the following,
however, which we hope will satisfy him
II appears that some time ago one Per
l,ins, an Englishnan, born, doubtless, OF
poor but respectable parents, went into
business with another person, whom for
the present, having forgotten his real
name. we will call Barclay say Barclay
Il Perkins. They made porter. II became
famous, aud thirsty souls on both sides the
Atlantic blest the names of Barclay ~ Per-
kins Perkins died recently and WAS
buried. but above the sod that covered him
grew the remembrance of his good deeds.
lie had bought up all the old copies of the
bible aud Shakespeare he could find tie
older the better. Perhaps he could not
read the old styles of type. But he was
not dauntcd. If the bible was four hun
dred and twenty years old it was worth in
his eyes more than thirty thousand bibles
that little London and New York heathcns
could read and therefore he compressed an
ocean of porter into the value of two bibles
that sold after his death for $4,000
United States currency, and he went to his
rest leaving these two bibles on his shelves
and was happy. Could he have done that
If he had not sold porter? Would pro.
hibitionist sell porter? Therefore, was il
not "a whitening rcbuke to the prohibition
lists p
A prohibitionist looks after other peo
pies affairs. He does not accumulate lux
,iries. He wants the plain, substantial ne
cessares of life A dollar and a hall
bible he regards as sufficiently ambitious
for his purposes, and if he has another dol
lar and half it would not be his nature tc
buy three dollar bible, but to get another
dollar and half bible for his neighbor
Perhaps he would not 60 so far as to make
him read it, but he would dearly like t.
stop his grog If he takes any, not because i
Injuries the prohibitionist, but because it in
jures his nsighbor, as he conceives, and HI
takes too much interest in his neighbor t
want to see him injured. The prohibition
list is of the muscular or christian" persua
sion. He might get along comfortabl.
with the republican party, but he has
mind instead, sometimes, to go in part.
by himself, and fight all other parties will
valiant pluck if not superintendent policy
1t is thus apparent that the prohibitions
is a man of good impulses, and moved by
sort of combativc bencvolence. Both tn
temperance conventions which assembled i
Albany Tuesday were in favor of prohib
ton but one was for third party and til
other was not. They seem to have dev'
loped good deal of strength in that State