Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1874-04-24
The Temperance Movement.


a week, and a committee oil ladies' mas
again visited several places and endeavored
TO obtain pledges that no liquors should be
sold as beverage, with no great degree OF
success, however.
Daily prayer meetings with relation
tn temperance effort, are held by number
of the business men of St. Adams. AT one
of these, a day or two since, gentleman
whose business stand is next door to a bill
lard and liquor saloon, says that his neigh
hor's patronage has diminished more than
half since the movement began. The liquor
dealers uniformly treat the ladies well,
but n good many of them have
EXPRESSED n preference to be prose-
cuted. rather than to be labored
with in that way.
The Rutland ladies have got pledges
from five out of the six apothe-
carries in that town that they will not sell
liquor as a beverage. They have appointed
4 committee to consider the expedicncy OF
procuring rooms where men can spend their
leisure. with books and newspapers, and
chance to buy lunch, and which shall
serve as a sort of labor exchange, and are
circulating among the men the following
paper for signatures;
We the subscribers. hereby express our
solves in favor of the enforcement OF our law pro
bfl,,ting the sa lie Of intoxicating drinks AS heN-
. ACE and also cur encouragement 10 those VINO
are engaged in its prosecution
\ large temperance meeting was held IN
Brandon, called by three clergy men,
and twenty four ladies, representing
the different churches in the village. Ear
nest speeches were made by DR.. Thomas,
Rev. Mr.. Tuxbury. Rev. Mr.. ingalls,, j. ).
Cilley, Mr. Mclaughlin and Mr.. L. IL.
Griswold. The latter said that there was
alre ady reform in Brandon. Less drunk
enness was seen in the streets, and fewer
of the young men drink.
The movement is active in many places IN
New England. About COO persons signed
the pledge at a Catholic temperance meet
ing in Boston on Wednesday. Mrs. Liver
more delivered the last lecture in the regu-
| lar temperance course at fremont Temple,
before an immense audience She sad she
believed in A prohibitory law, and while she
acknowledged that it was not enforced
neither was the law against theft; and she
would n soon annul one law on that ae-
count Is the other. The prohibitory law
had its foundation in the Christian religion
Every church should be a temperance socle-
tv. She related her experience in watching
the movement of the women against the
rum shops in the West, speaking very
bioblv of the work She argued that moth
ing could be done successfully unless DOTH
mon and women take hold Of the work TO-
retber and work unitedly. Then the grand
results in the West would be duplicated al
over the land.
John B. Cough, who, at first, came out
against the women's movement, declared
himself in favor of it, in lecture at New
Haven. Conn. and again in Worcester
lie said
~One Of the grandest sights he had even
coon in ms life was when he saw band Of
two hundred women who had been out al
| dav. pasS on their way to the church t
renort. There had been no such waking
mn Of the people from Maine to the Pacih'
cdast since the WaShingtonlan movement
in lSio More saloons have been closed II
the mast i Y weeks than during the ia
wears previous. lie believed in the men co
1neratiur with the women. and the womer
should accept the advice Of the men.
In Bangor, Maine, ex Gov. PerhaH
addressed meeting Of 5000 per
sous. Another speaker gave statistics o
the young men of that city who had beer
DESTROYED by rum and Hon. Lewis Barker
demonstrated that the United States license
to which ram-ellers attached their names
is in itself enough to convict them, as II
that license they declare their intention to
sell. In Biddeford, Me, the ladies were
beginning to agitate for praying band
but the sheriffs are making matters 50 warn
for the saloon keepers that nothing will be
done at present.
In Providence. r l., praying band OF
dozen ladies visited several saloons
but the effort is described as feeble and
ineffective. \ large temperance society oil
ladies has been organized in that city
whose plan is to circulate pledges in
every house in the city. and to make
personal appeals to liquor sellers and
drinkers.
The Metropolitan Catholic Total Ab-ti
nence Union Of New York State met IN New
York, Wednesday, and made arrangements
for mass meeting at the Cooper Institute
the 18th Of May. \ large number of distin-
guished speakers have signifed their inten-
ton to be present. \ letter was read from
Archbishop Leahy Of Cashel, Ireland,
heartily approving of the proposed eombina-
ton between the two countries for the pro-
lection of emigrants on their arrival from
the ruinous Influences of intemperance, and
promising the cooperation of both clergy
and laity with the movement.
The movement Is still making progress in
PENNSYLVANIA. In Pittsburg the Mayor gave
an order to the chief ofpolicc to prevent
the women from obstructing the sidewalks,
The women took counsel together. and with
the United States Distriet-AttCrney, who
decided that an order from the police was
not legally binding. They decided to con-
tinue their visitations to saloons. They
prayed at two wholesale houses during the
afternoon; and the police cleared away the
crowd outside, explaining to them, mean
while. that when the women blocked up the
streets they should be treated the same way.
Temperance meetings continue to be held
in Chicago and other Illinois towns. One
| of the first things laid before the new City
| Councils of the Western towns, generally,
is a petition praying them not to license the
sale of Liquor In Indiana. the prosecution
of dealers under the law goes on with ardor.
Van Pelt, the Ohio convert, is lecturing
TO large audiences in Indiana, and says he
had rather be highwayman than :eturn to
the liquor traffic The indianapolis Journal
says:
II any one ina snes that the interest IN the ten
perance movement is dying out, at least 80 far as
This city and State concerned, he viii lie dsa-
bused Of that opinion by consulting our third page
Five separate mass meetings were held IN the CITY
Yesterday afternoon. all OF them well attended and
some Of them exceedingly large and enthusiastic.
There is a very deciced feeling developing In ivor
Of the plan Of saloon visiting
And SO the work goes on in places too
numerous to be here mentioned.
IMPORTANT RAILROAD CHANGE The trains
on the Addison Railroad, until further
notice, will run only to Ticonderoga-all
trains between Ticonderoga and Port Henry
having been discontinued, pursuant to the
following
NOTICE.
In consequence of damage by ice to the
trestle work across Bullwagga Bay. and OF