Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1873-10-30

earnest, will not. lay straw in youl
Way-will rather assist you. pity the
man who is a slave to his appetite. ]
pity the man who sells; yes, and hate
hate him hate is not the word for it.
There is annually spent in this country
| for bread, $500, 200, 600 for tobacco,
| $3.50, 100000 and for rum 600, 600, 600.
Turn this mount spent annually for rum
into different channels, and we could
work less and live better Suppose il
was all invested in lands, bank stocks
and railroads we wonld be the richest
country in the world. We must instruct
our children in regard to these facts, and
stir the neople up so that they will feel
the full force of them.
! There are enough men in every com
munity to devise work for that colnmu-
nifty. A hundred men in Rutland who
can take the work in hand and perse-
we're, can accomplish the work effectual-
! ". If it fails to be done, the response
! bility remains on your own people-no-
where else. There is q. social, legal.
medical, religious, and last and greatest
.of all with the irrepressibie Yankee,
! there is financial side to the question,
and you have competent men who can
! take up each aspect of the evil. The
! rum-seller is constantly pushing his
work, while we wait. The foe is never
7 disheartened There are men, time and
money to forward their evil designs
There are travelling through our State,
day after day, at least fifty agents of
large liquor stores. located in some of
I our large cities. On a recent visit to
our State prison, the warden, while
showing me through, informed me that
he had made careful inquiries Of all the
men who had come under his charge,
and he found that fully eight-tenths if
not nine-tenths of all who were then,
and had been, under his charge, came
| there through the influence of liquor,
! The young man takes one glass, then
another another and yet others until
he is ripe for any crime, and don't know
when to stop. When arrested, his
friends ask for mercy because he was
intoxicated. Many men who are toiling
! in poverty might be rich, were it not for
the constant drain of few cents daily,
which, in the aggregate, make a great
! sum. The speaker herepointed moral
by relating the story of the old lady
who accidentally got her flock OF turkeys
drunk and proceeding to work plucked
them all before they presented any in
dications of reSiviag, g,I :....'...s
I Young men YOU 1nisf revive and quit
dram drinking forever, before you are
plueked. Our young men pour into the
tills OF the Vermont r0nsellef, annually,
$3.50, 900, and many of these, young men
are destined to fill aruakattls graves. 1t
is dangerous to take the first step; there
is danger in the first glass. The drinker
can be, compared with man who
launches out in a boat and allows him
self to float towards the falls, but sud
denly realizing his danger, he seizes his
oars and makes a desperate effort. but
too late. Multitudes of young men start
out in this way but drink on until too
late, and they go down to drunkards
graves. Stop moment and consider
the fact that rum kills man every five
minutes and you would stand aghast. |
say to you with all candor that If the
Lord of heaven should come down in
our midst and give me the choice OF my
sons becoming drunkards or filing an
instant grave, ] would bury them and
kneel on the grave and thank God for
the blessed privilege | have daughter
Just growing into womanhood and
should the Lord reveal to me that she
would be the wife of "a drunkard and
the mother of. a drunkard's children, l
would sooner bury her. have laid
awake nights and have. prayed God to
take them or me out of the world before
the like should occur. Task every moth
er and father to put forth eoe9y effort in
the work. Let us accomplish the saliva
ton of our fellowmen. This evil Grip
Piles every interest and destroys every
resolution.
Vermont DairYmen's AssOciation.
The fifth winter meeting of the Yer
mont Dairymen's Association, will be
held on the third Wednesday after the
first Tuesday of January 1874, and the
two succeeding days, at some place to be
determined by the executive committee.
The reputation of the Association is
so well established that we need not ex-
patiate upon the advantages which will
result to any town from having this
meeting within its borders. The execu-
tive committee invite proposals from the
citizens of any towns desiring the COM
ing meeting. 1t is expected that they
will, without expense to the Association,
furnish a suitable hall, properly warmed
and lighted, and guarantee some stated
number of new members.
We are informed by Mr.. o. S. Bliss,
the secretary and treasurer, that all
other things being equal, preference will
be given to towns remote from former
places of meeting.
GRAND LIST OF VERMONT FOR, 1878.
The following is the Grand List of
Vermont for 1878, as furnished by Geo.
Nichols, Secretary of State:
Real Estate-acres 5,125,66s, APP -.....
praised, $50 942, 329
Personal property, 19423,97l
One per cent is. LOS, 1858. 90
Add. asst. on polls L$l2s,3l4, less
deductions, S3,356, 1874 ,s5s.00
70 s1c,n