The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1873-12-23
Temperance Meeting.

An audience of about three hundred as
sembled at the Town Hall last evening to
attend the citz9ns temperance meeting
Joel NJ. Haven, Esq, presiding.
Prayer was offered by Rev. Edward
Mills.
Rev. James Gibson johnson, Pastor Of
the Congregational church, was introduced
and proceeded to speak in reference to the
subject as an old one yet ever new on ac-
count of the suffering it brings to the race.
Suffering always brings a new experience,
however often it may be repeated. The
importance of the Temperance movement
comes from this truth. Intcmperance was
a question of human experience, and while
he could not speak from experience yet lie
was willing to utter anything that would
stay the tide of human suffering. The
minister of the Gospel had ever to deal
with old truths yet they were always new
because every sin is new, and everything
that can save from sin was worthy of
uttcrance.
One cannot live II day in our town or
state without having intemperancc brought
fresh to his remembrance. There are two
classes in the community those who have
been so trained that they have had no eX-
perience on this subject. This class cannot
speak only in Il general way of what they
see and hear The other class are those
who have had experience on this theme
| They can speak from the heart, of the sor-
row and degradation that follow in the
wake Of rum selling. They could speak
burning words.
In this day there is danger that we are
living in period when the appetite is
stronger than the ,cW The fear of the
social glass does not effect men, social
drinking is the foundation of much of the
intemperance of the present. Men cannot
say no to n friend who protcrs an invita-
ton to partake of the social glass. The
social drinking customs are more prevalent
here than in any other nation of the world.
Bar drinking is not a custom of the Old
World the wines and liquors are drank at
the table with the daily meals, hence the
traveller makes observation and frequently
reports the drinking customs of foreign
lands more temperate than at home.
The speaker contended that the law ma
kers, in cnacting prohibitory laws, gave
expression to the moral forces of the com
munty, and yet people express want OF
| onnHInnnn in a,, Tho snptip,apt nf thf
people suggests the law, it is made by theii
representatives, and the moral force of the
community should compel the authorities
to execute it. Every moral and legal force
should be exerted against the custom o
social drinking. Moral force should re
strain the drnker, and legal force SHOULD
close the bar. Moral force is expressed il
the law. Let legal force close every ba
in Rutland. The people have done thei
moral duty, now let legal force close on
rum-shops. Let us close the bars of Rut
land by the legal force of the prohibition
law.
Hon. ID. f. Nicholson then briefly ad
dressed the assembly in a forciblc manner
but no attempt will be made to report hi
remarks
Rev. Richard Grogan was then Intro
duced, and commenced by saying ther
seemed to be misunderstanding of h
G mission in Rutland, that he waa here to ei
gage in liquor prosecutions. His tamil
| came here to live before an invitation Ina
been extended to him to labor in the caus,
J Being here, he was prepared to labor in IL
, cause of temperance in the pulpit, on I'll
I platform, in the street, or in the cour
room, and was at the service of the peop
. lie proceeded to read long and pointC
. indictment against rum and rumseler
and from thence he branched out into
hours speech, upon the duty of the el
forcement of the prohibitory lay
advocating that it be at once commence
C and we understood the speaker to say tn
/, its first enforcement should be against Il
IS wealthiest rumseler in town, and so {
l. down until rumselling was broken up
IS After brief address from Rev. Edwa
u Mills the meeting was dissolved