The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1874-04-25
Che 9utlana Daily Glohe,
SATURDAY, APRIL 25, 1874.
The Woman's Temperance Moves
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had fully expected that my articles I'M
der the above caption would wherever pub
lished, be placed under a cross fire from
the guns of the so-called Crusade" be.
cause the temperance movers are not yet
sufficiently recovered from their magnetic
trance to indulge in argument or tolerate
unvarnished facts, nor have | been disap-
pointed; but had not anticipated the COM
pliment that has been paid those articles
in this, that thus far not one single point
has been made against their line of argu-
ment through the medium Of the press but
has been built upon misquotaton Of their
language or misrepresentation of their
meaning. l have therefore left them
alone and declined to pick up the slimsy
gauntlets which have been thrown down be-
fore me. would wish still to do so, but a
correspondent of your paper 'M. A. W."
has tilted at my articles and behind them
with a persistence and venom which seem
to indicate that she elegance of diction,
prevalence Of metaphor and absence of
logic betray her SEX is practical and en-
.terprising crusader who must needs find or
make a focman tor her STEEL and her per-
serving efforts at last compel me to enter
protest against her mutlations of my Lam
guage and try the temper of such few points
as she has been thereby enabled to make.
Your correspondent in the first place has
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changes upon the assertion with which she
credits me- that the woman's temperance
movement is "a failure" | beg leave to
call her attention TO the fact that my LAM
guage was precisely this Gas radical, d-
rect and cflectual engine of reform. the eX-
ccuor OF its avowed purposes, the move
ment must be failure" etc. The avowed
purpose of the movement, us / understand
it, is to do away with the evil of intemper-
ance by first attacking not the cause, but
one Of the effects; by striking first at middle
men instead of reducing either supply or
demand. If science and common sense
fail to convince the reader that such a course
cannot succeed, practical observation of its
results will soon, and even now does clearly
the nature of things, cannot directly bring
about any permanent or radical change in
the habits, tastes or customs of the people.
Again | am credited with saying that
''the abolition of the evil of Contemporaries or
even its mitigation to any important extent
is impossible" | never made any such
statement, ! never used that language. |
declared in plainest terms my belief that
''thc abolition of the evil was practically
impossible and that ''its mitigation to any
important extent was not Gin the plan OF
this movement intelligently provided for
| believe the mitigation of the evil of intern.
able whenever it is attempted intellgently,
sen IDLY, and Understandings and | believe
it is in the power of this people, by ntelli-
gent laws and public sentiment, to control
and to make comparatively harmless the
powers of strong drink. The matter is so
simple that we have spent fifty years in its
study and have not as yet built theoretical
temples quite high enough to have them
der their foundations.
Your correspondent brilliantly remarks
upon ''the plethoric, sleepy German, gug-
cling lager" etc, and later, says ''the Ger
mans are individually, collectively and
cverlastingly Jsered and cannot under
stand that Il state of maudlin imbecility is
any better than drunken disorderly con-
dtion." She of course would not willfuny
misreprcsent, so her mistake must arise from
ignorance. will beg permission to cor
rect it by informing her that the German
lower classes are acknowledged to be he
most frugal, industrious, clearly and order
ly people on the face of the earth, ''indi-
vidually collectively" and nationally that
the German upper classes are the most
thoroughly educated, solidIy intelligent
people known to civilization and that their
nation is the synonym Of physical health
fulness and mental cultivation. | also re-
mark that from pure lager beer it is very
nearly practical impossibility to produce
intoXication.
am informed that China Is country
ofopium caters. | do not understand opium
to be stimulant or Il beverage and there
fore | haven't been and am not talking
about opium | understand it to be a mar
cotic poison and if | were to aludc to it Gas
| may at some proper season. | should re-
commend ''crusade" against it every
whore and possibly in this country it would
fall upon the men to conduct the war.
am questioned upon the subject of
'remouth," 'absinthe" and the like. |
simply repeat, what think was clear Y set
forth in my previous article, that | regard
them and all distilled liquors as utterly I'M
fit for any use unless it be medicinal. They
are the product of forced decomposition of
vegetable matter, aud are not legitimate
forms of the products of the soil
am informed that in England, France
and other countries the Irrational drink is
not alone, but that vast quantities of PERM
cious liquors are imported and used, have
every reason TO believe that it is true, and |
unhesitatingly condemn those imported
liquors and all distilled liquors of home
manufacture, and believe that by intelli,
gent action their importation, their use and
their power could be so far restricted as to
practically destroy their harmful influence,
and this with the support of the people and
the endorsement of the beautiful patriotic
love for all things national which reigns in
the hearts of the people. But your Ignorant
headlong ''teetotalism' chat name from the
feebleness and absurdity of its sound is sin
gularly appropriately would attack the
Englishman's beer and the Frenchman's
light, sparkling wine, whose flavor he has
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