Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1873-10-15

what are iou Going to Do about II!
The matter Of liquor selling and liquor
drinking has come to such pass in our
place that the citizen who has the welfare
Of our town at heart--not to say that Of
humanty-can 20 longer hold an equvocal
position We would not intimate that thi-
village is sinner above all others in thi.
regard it is not On the contrary We
believe it is as free from the vice and crime
Of liquor drinking aud selling as any other
place Of its size 10 New England But
our town can show a shocking record of
bright hopes blasted, strong intcleets
ruined and abundant wealth squandercd. all
attributable directly to liquor drinking.
Most Of our readers are already familiar
with the history Of the past week in our
place how husband and father, after 90.
ing home intoxicated many nights, fnally
on Friday evening, seized an ux, and with
terrible imprecations. demolished the fur.
nituro smashing mirrors, sofa, chairs, and
even the cooking stove-whle his affrighi-
cd wife fed for her life 10 a neighhor's,
taking with her the only other occupant of
the house, an invalid daughter, who had
been for many weeks IN of o fever. Ii
does not help the case to know that this
family is Intelligent and cultivated, and
chat in fleeing from the demon who should
be, aud who had sworn to be, their protect
or, one life at least was put in jeopardy.
If this was the only case that had oc.
CURED in our town for the last twenty
years, it should be enough to cause every
man to set his face aud exert his innu.
enee against this Demon Intemperance.
But this is only one Of many. We know
Of another instance scarcely less dreadful
OF hard working man aud kind husband
and father, iCiea sober, but when in liquor
a very demon. When intoxicated he too
IS fell destroyer" and anything that
belongs to his wife be fakes especial de-
light 10 dcmolishing, He tears up her
clothing, chops her sewing machine TO
pieces with an sx. and the food which his
hard earnings had bought when sober, he
takes out into the yard aud trampes in the
dirt. When their last child was born, this
father was away on one Of his periodical
drunken orgies, and the neighbors found the
wife aud mother in a deplorable condition
This is a sample Of what quor drinking
is doing here aud not Gully here, bat all
over our land
We might add other eases which must be
10 every ones mind of active aud CONNIE.
tent business men; of intelligent aud promis-
ing professional men--who have squaudered
their substance destroyed their intellect,
and ruined both body aud soul with liquor.
We might add that trio Of boys under
sixteen. led by son Of a prominent citi.
zen. were found on one side Of the groupds
daring our late fair, intent over bottle of
whiskey.
Bat enough Of this. The question which
we have put at the head Of this article must
come directly home 70 the minds and con.
sciences Of many persons. Every man has
a duty 10 this matter. Shall the aceursed
traffic in intoxicating drinks be tolerated,
aud the long train Of evils and crimes which
it brings thus be encouraged, or shall there
be such sentiment infused through the
community as shall sustain the officers of
the law in their efforts to put IN end to all
this horrid business ?--St. JoInsJury Gale.
DOMAIN