Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1874-11-27
WHOLE NO. 2OS.
Eaotes' department.
For the VERMONT FARMER.
MRS. LIVERMORE
At Montpelier, Saturday Evening, Nov. "a.

AZ Montpelier, Saturday Evening, Nov, IL,
With Mrs. Livermore's first appearance
we thought, "How minus of braids and
curls being fne.looking woman how
much fashionable hair-dresser would en-.
hanco that beauty" Her hair we presemed
was all her own, being only small braid,
and not drawn up to the top of her head
with cords and pins, pulling upon every
nerve about the temples, and upon every
delicate tissue of the braiu but it was put
up in such free and easy manner that she
could turn her head, or her thoughts, which
soever way she chose ; and we concluded
before she got through speaking that upon
this minus hung some of the clue to her su-
perabundauce of thought, complete possess
sion Of language, and the knowing how to
make the choicest use of it. Cannot fashion
initiate her in this plain style of hair dres-
sing for while, and try what effect it would
have upon the mental faculty Of women in
general
Mrs. Livermorcs address on the subject
of "Thc Battle of Money" was, in Gov.
Peck's own words, "full of philosophy, rea-
son, logic, eloquence, morality, religion, and
all excellence" She presented very clear.
I, ,ly the state and character Of our own coun-
try, as well as giving us look over into
Others
She said "nations differ one from another.
The character of the Hebrews was religious
Of Germany, scholarly; of Russia, mill
tary. 1t you want to associate with the
ariStocracy of England, you must associate
with the noble of birth. To be honored in
England, one must be well born. Wealth
was nothing poverty was nothing, but to be
well born is everything. If you wish to go
among the aristocracy of Rome, you must
go among the men high up iu the Catholic
church.
"In America if you would know who are
the aristocratic men, inquire for the rich
men, Wealth is the title of distinction here.
The religious element is not strong in the
American character to turn the Ameri-
cans mind heavenward you must tell him
that the streets of the New Jerusalem are
paved with gold"
She showed by alarming facts how specu-
lation and the love of money was eating out
the heart of our country, and great effort
must be made to arrest this tendency, or 1t
would lead to its ruin.
Evening of the I5th-Temperance.
After showing some fearful statistics, as
the cost of liquor in our country for the
year, six hundred millions ofdollars, and the
number of deaths occurring from drunken
ness at the rate of FIVE hundred day, she
said:
"How can we save the country from
drunkenness ?" She believed that women
must do this. Public sentiment, which was
against temperance, was against them but
they were to blame for this public senti-
ment. They had been too Indifferent and
had been so educated to trust, and opedi-
ence, that they only sighed and believed
There was no other way but for men to
drink and for their sons to SOW their wild
oats, hoping in the end the sons would re-
turn to the right when they were older But
that would be well enough, perhaps, if these
wild oats would not grow but a harvest.
must surely follow. The crime Of drunken
ness should not meet with liberation in one
sex and execration in the other. 1t was no
worse for a daughter to be drunken than it
was for son. These daughters whom We
rear so carefully we give over into the
hands Of these same drunken sons, as hus-
bands, either for a long, sad life, or the di-
vorce.
Women must perform this great work of
putting an end to drunkenness. 1t is their
duty; tits their right to forbid it. Mothers
who 60 down to deaths door to take up
these little ones, have right to say that
they shall not be made drunkards they
cannot afford to bring children into the
world at such cost, for such sacrifice.
We should educate our children in the
right teaching them to resist the wrong
we should speak in public or in private, any
way that tends to work this reform. 81 say
to-day that women have a right to forbid
drinking, the curse that is robbing our
arms and our fresides of all that we hold
dear"
"What can we do when public sentiment
is against it Il think you have reason to
be proud Of Vermont) We must make
public sentiment ; make it just as disrop-
utable to sell liquor as to rob hen roost I!
Women ought to be able to express their
opinions where they would count but until
we can be counted as people we must labor
to the best advantage that we can"
p. l.. II.