The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1874-08-19

Vermont
The committee on programme reported
as follows.
The 22d quarterly meeting of the above
Union will be held at Caslleton, on Tues
Jay. Nov. 10, 1874.
ORDER OF EXERcIsEs.
|. Introductory exercises.
9. Reading minutes of last meeting
3. Written reports of lodges.
4, Verbal reports from delegates.
5. New and unfinished business.
6. Essay by Bro. ii. vi. Mott, of Bran
don.
Z. Discussion OF the following question:
Res0lGed, That all temperance men should
form party whose cardinal principal shall
be prohibition.
8. Essay by Mrs. S. A. Case, Of Fair
haven.
8. Good of the order
10. Public address in the evening by Rev.
w. G. Hines of Castleton.
The report was accepted, committee dis
charged and the union adjourned.
The meeting then adjourned till eight
o'clock in the evening.
EVENING.
A very small audience assembled at the
hall in the evening to listen to the address
which was given by w. ii. ii. McAllister
of St. Adams, and which was worthy of a
far better audience than were present. The
gentleman, after referring to the cause in
which they were engaged, spoke of the diff
ferent organizations which had been
formed for the purpose of helping suppress
the sale of intoxicating liquors, most pro-
minent among which, he thought, the
Good Templars, whose influence is mostly
by moral suasion. He believed that the
work they have accomplished, never has
been nor never will be equalled although
they have been obliged to call to their aid
the strong arm of the law He then spoke
at considerable length upon the
subjects of Incense or prohibition.
Against the license system he claimed that
any license, no matter how stringent, legal
ICES the crime of the sale of intoxicants
that it legalizes crime, murder and the
making Of paupers. 1t creates a monop-
oily, for by the payment of S25 one can
sell beverage that will conceive all these
crimes. He would rather see the prohb-
itory law wiped out and leave the moral
force of the community to battle against
we must have law prohibiting the sale of
Intoxicating liquors, with the proper pen
aties for breaking it.
In favor of the prohibition law he said
that the public safety requires it; that no
man or his property is safe where intoxl-
eating liquors are sold. We can have
safety only in prohibition, and it is the
province of the state to grant it. In ref
erence to the workings of our present pro-
hibitory law he quoted from several
speakers who have visited the
state and have SAID that the
law is doing all that can be ex-
pected Ct it, and that Vermont is the
cleanest temperance state in the union, and
if it is right in principleit will in the END
remove this evil, the great object of the
law being to remove the source of the evil
from the community. The speaker though,
that we need more stringent provision il
! our laws in regard to penalties. The frs
otfense should be punished with fine ant
Imprisonment, and nothing but money
should be taken for bail in such cases. TC
enforce this law we need a better executive
force to put the law into execution He
expressed the hope that the next Legislature
would pass the state police bill, as we can
not always rely on our sheriffs, our con
stables, our police, or the grand juror to
carry out the law.
The law has achieved much, but it ha
not achieved ALL because we use a loca
application for national malady--one tina
breaks out in every state, town and city
and we have been applying local remedy
So long as the manufacture and sale of in
toxicating LIQUORS is allowed by the nationa
government, 20 long will liquor be used b.
the people We must crush the head o
this evil, and by prohibiting the manufac
ture and importation of it we crush it a
once. The speaker said that a politica
question would be made Of the temperate
movement, how he did not know, but i
one of the present parties did not take i
up and fight it, God will raise one up espe
cially tor it, He spoke strongly upon th
idea that the great hope of the temperate
party is to save the young, of the influence
that are excrted by women, the church an
ministry; thought that we should use on
political rights in favor of the question O
Temperance, and closed by urging upon hi
hearers to do all that lies in their power I
eradicate the evil and help overthrow il
temperance and bring in the reign of ten
perance, knowing that if they but labor o
and save one soul we shall in no wise los
our reward.