The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1873-10-27

were afraid of being injured In their busi-
ness, and were afraid to act, and one man
had pursued the subject until his patience
was exhausted, and had folded his arms
and ceased work, remarkng that he
would let the whole village go to the
devil and be done with it."
Every reformer that has ever lived has
encountered opposition. The example OF
Garrison, Phillips and Oliver Johnson's
early advocacy of anti-slavery was quoted
as an example not expecting to live to see
their work accomplished and yet in thirty
years slavery ceased to be.
The speaker asserted that Maine pos
scssed the most temperate people in the
world, and Vermont the next. 1t is as
sumed that seven-eighths of the people OF
Vermont abstain from the use of intoxica-
ting drinks, but we are not lab0ring as we
should for the balance. lie stated his own
experience in having been thrown out OF
business when a young man, by the threats
Of a rum dealer, who carried them into Ell
feet, and alluded to recent threat of
Montpelier paper, that unless the aggressive
movements of the friends Of temperance in
that village did not cease blood would be
shed. lie proposed to give blow fer blow.
If his enemies SHARED his horses tail, he
proposed to put kicking horse in the
stable
The statement was made that two hun
drcd millions of dollars of the peoples
money went for wheat two hundred mil
lions more for tobacco, and for achtsky sir
hundred millions. How rich would the ma
ton be if this was turned into other chan
ncls, and Vermont would be the richest
state in the world.
We need to instruct our young men, each
community putting into operation the
means for instructing as were adapted 20
their own wants. The subject should be
discussed in all its phases for the benefit of
young men by the best minds of the seve-
raj communities.
Vermont manages on poor pittance to
support one State agent in the temperance
cause. While on the other hand there are
fifty wholesale liquor agents travelling the
State at good salaries, one of whom had
told the speaker, lie sold one hundred thou
sand dollars worth Of liquor in one year.
\ large amount of the crime in the State is
due to int(mperancc. The warden Of the
Vermont SNlte PriNon had told him that
cight-tcnths ST. convicts were brought
there from the use Of intoxicating drinks.
Ninc-tenths of the crimes prosecuted in our
courts are caused by rum. The Walden
murderer had told him that it was not
Snow that murdered StantOn-it was rum.
The Halifax murderer said it was not
Crosicr that murdered his son-in-law--it
was rum.
Ten cents a day for rum amounted to
S,3G. 30 in year, and there were men in the
state paying $500 year for rum and others
dollar day. He sat down the other day
with friend of his youth to talk over the
companions of other days. and it was
found that forty of them were sleeping in
drunkard's graves-all of them were prom
ising Young men. and none of them 30 years
ago thought of filling drunkards grave.
They were bright, intelligent young men of
whom great hopes were entertained in this
village to-day, will fill drunkards graves,
and the warning should be sounded in
trumpet tones, for 5000 are dying from
rum every year, 200 every month. and one
every five minutes.
The speaker closed with an earnest and
pathetic appeal to parents to train their
sons and daughters in the ways of total alb
stncnce and Of temperance, and to all to
use every cXcrtiOn to promote the great in
tcrest and oppose rum selling and rum
drinking, which is destroying us a people
and nation.
The exercises were closed with the bene-
diction, which was pronounced by the Rev.
DR.. Porter.