Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1873-12-18


should feel justified in shooting the de-
mon who should tempt a son of his to
become drunkard. ~ ~. I :,
This unguarded expression, whether
said with or without reflection, has been
the most potent of anything said by the
young man that has been reported. The
rumsellers have cried out that they were
being prosecuted, and men who have
been seen staggering towards their cold
and desolate homes, lead by an innocent
little child, with their last cent gone to
enrich the Inscriptions dramseller,
while their wife and children were suf-
fering from cold and hunger, have re-
peated the cry, and spoken of the feel
ing narrative of this reformed inebriate
as s'tirade, and warned the people
against a man who taught a disrespect
for law, as a corrupter of the minds of
children and young men and a dangerous
foe to society, and who outraged. every
principle of humanity The Savior of
the world Incorporated into that model
for prayer that he gave his disciples
the comprehensive expression, Lead us
not into temptation" as one of the
things they should ask for of their
Heavenly Father, and a Christian com
munity will not be quite ready to cast
Mr.. Grogan out for his arraignment of q
class of men whose whole business is to
lead others into temptation, and TO defy
the Lord in his efforts to answer the
prayer He has taught to men, although
they do not approve of the lecturers
threat to shoot the tempters.
The officers of the law who. forced q
Milton hotel keeper to attend trial of a
criminal prosecution against him when
one of his children was dead in the house,
and another dying, did very wrong, if
there ever was any such case, we are de.
cidedly inclined to believe that this tale
is fiction, gotten up for effect, but if
true, it was inhuman and ought to be
dircountenanced. 1t however strikes us
that there are two sides to the picture
How many fathers in the vicinity of
Milton have been kept from the bedside
of their dead and dying children by the
hellish traffic of this same hotel keeper
Yea, more, how many bright aud happy
lives have been blighted and brought
down in sorrow to the gravel by the temp
tations set before them by this same man ?
While we disappreve, in strong terms,
OF the tearing of mourning father
from the bedside of his dead and dying
children, we do not forget the crime
that he has been guilty of whereby 9th
er fathers have been outraged in SINH
lar way. Humanity should shudder, at
least as much in the latter case as in
former 1t is time the press and people
should speak out on this subject, in the
interests of humanity and the cause of
temperance The Milton hotel keeper is
only one instance-the other kind has its
thousands of represent atiyes, and they
appeal for justice from every village,
city and town, and it is time they were
needed. ... ...... III
We have never been strong adyo-
cate of prohibition, especially when it
was enforced with Partially, and used
as d source of revenue to officials, in
stead of an instrument to suppress crime
| and promote the cause of temperance
and morality We do not favor inhuman
or improper measures to be used in adj
Yancing any one Of the Christian Graces,
but we are extremely glad that Mr.. Gro
/ gan has been successful in bringing out
discussion. The temperance question
is one that cannot be injured by argu-
| ment. The victims of intemperance
should be pitied and reclaimed if posi-
BILE, and IFS ministers abhorred, and
there is no surer way to bring about
that result than to agitate the question
so that the people must think on the
subject. The rumseller who sheltered
his cowardly head behind A. J, Smith,
by that one act, awoke public senti-
ment that has done good and will do
more, by the agitation it created. The
assaults of rumsellers and rumdrinkers
upon Nr. Grogan will work out the
! same result. Let the people awake and
reason together on this question.