The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1874-05-12

trusted to their care and to
ieer at the miseries their habit has entailed.
1t schools men in intemperancc until they
can scoif. at the crushed affections of a
wife and look without emotion upon the
sufferings of their offspring, laugh at
fathers anguish and hiss at mothers
tears. 1t leads men on until they have SO
writhed under the fury of inward burn
ings, till they have been excluded from
honorable companionship, till they have
reached such pitch of desperatencss and
woe they find 1t relief to lay down
and launch out their souls upon evcrast-
ing retribution.
repeat it rum selling is worse than com
mon robbery. Your son fifteen years of
age is assaulted on the street and some
ruflian takes away his money. He tells
YOU on his return the story of his assault.
You are indignant and call upon the au-
thorities to discover and arrest the perpc-
TRAITOR. But suppose that the robber had
obtained his money for different purposes,
had opened a liquor saloon and invited
your son in to drink and speRd his money
Now ask which would you prefer to have
your son robbed outright or to have him
thus rihed by the rumseller. If you feel
as do you prefer to have him violently
robbed hundred times by n straightfor-
ward manly robbcr than by rumseler for
in the one case the boy has not lost his
manliness in the other he has
Rumsclling is plundering of the basest
kind The biigand in Palestine, the pirate
on the sea, and the smuggler ON the from
tier can tell of heroic adventure. thex dar
ing and their hardshps They can fell MS
of their adventures and narrow escapes,
| and can give proof that their amused
treasures are hard earned.
But the man whc gets behind the counter
and filchcs scrip from his neghbor's poe
| ket and enticcs the BOYS from the street to
drink, for the driblets that may flow in to
| fill his own Golfers. braves no peril of life
or limb, and endures no hardship. He is
too spirtless for enterprise. too irdolent
for eXertion, too craven to meet the brnnt
of an honest calling \ dcfraudcr is bad
enough but to he a dciraudcr and dronc,
a sordid. base unheroic, unadven,urous de-
fraudcr is worse yet
Am | wrong then in saying that here is a
traffic that is odious. Am | wong then
when say that you and should hate it
with bitter, bitter and unchangclcss
hatred, that we ought to war against it
wherever it he, and whatever form it may
assume 1t spares nothing, that is lovely,
beautiful, or of good report, And while it
| NllutlS uulillitS, tiiN INh''. hiiii' II
tramplcs upon honor and hOnOrablencss,
while it debases the gifted and amiable,
while it preys upon public virtue and NOR
atty, while it rends assundcr the most
sacred and tcnderest ties, while ii pillages
It's victims of their choicest blessings shall
it work, and work without resistance
Must its doings he hushcd up? Must
we whisper against 1t Must we hope
against hope that its devastations will Nc
checkered with spols small ? No So We
will raise against this traffic loud anC
protracted voice of accusation and I'M
petuous and successive rcmonstrancc. W.
will bring against it strong array Of as
sociated and virtuous hostility.
We will take the liquor dealer in hant
and cause him to shrink from the sc0urg
of truth and cover beneath the scrutiny o
indignant recttudc, We will bear dowl
upon him with the cngincry of public alb
horrence and civil! justice. If Legislative
enactments and popular jealousy respecting
this traffic, are puny and imputent thel
all the more is it time for alarm, time 70
warning, time for the casting off of apathy
time high time for the rousng up o
moral and civil energy. There is Il ire
mendous power in decided and energet
nublic OpniOn Very fo>, daic "itiis.ar
il. but Inis power is doubled Hhen hcin
in the right, it is nerved and sustained b.
the impulses of an approving conscience
And it is trebled when it rears itself agans
: acknowledged vice. for then it finds
staunch and vigorous auxiliary in the Grim
malls own breast. When he is bcset b
popular Indignation, he has foe wthou
and foe within. Let the rum-selc
suffer this persecution. Law on hin
the biting lash of public odium. Let hir
he made conscious that if he continue hi
, vocation he must bear the superaGded ours
of the communitv's spontaneous albion
5 renee that whatever else may be tolerate
l there can be no tolcrencc and no cour,cs
for n traffic so foul as his.
/ am aware that am sncal<ing in n styl
} of impptuous yehemencc: IN n lone of d,
: nuncintion. too which some of Won ma
\ think i'll becomes the time and place. Br
i there are times when forbcarance in III
: pulpit even ceases to be virtue Thong
I impetuous. | sneak not Mt random. Fac
: are continually coming to lght in the mid
q of rs winch substantia,e The views ha,
C taken Of this traffic end Justify NV repr
t sensations of its yilIainv. Should its ey
e effects be ferretcd ont Should its nollutln
. and debasipp results he ossiduouslv espie
and recorded shonld the whole trlitl COZ
!, cerning the Iiomor traffic IN orr VILLAGE
, written down there would bp snrcad n
y / fore us catalogue of crime an
Il miserv-o history of foul scduction M
:. depeneracv and min which would blanc
i every check and chill every heart Nav
S sneak the ruth In wonder iail there
IS confined ono of our VILLAGE bovs Whe n,
S him there? The sheriff. For what crime
e Shon. breokinr Led on by others old
n Than himself in wears and in crime he w,
BETRAYED into his criminal offence lie
o awaiting his trial and. apart from exccuti,
$ clcmoncy. his Inevitable doom is the sta
y nrison Rnt what ore the bov's ontec
d dents where had he snent his evenings. NJ
!; who wers his associates? Nav tell? t
IL snnnt the evening before his crime in n,
= If our DRINKING Saloons II was the MIA,
J. Of rendezvous From if the vouthful I'm
n Glars went forth 70 their worl, Had II
lad in ouestion bcen wont TO visit Thai 8
;, loon before His parents tell me that