The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1874-03-03

oil I)lO LOWS when he SAD ne nau seen Jaw
retarding the spirit of temperance While
the law was the legal manifestation of the
subject, It was not the whole of the ques-
tion and while it would be strange in
consistency to say we will refrain from
making use Of the law, yet it would be
sad thing to say the moral force of the
community was the only power brought to
bear. We must not let the law be the ON.
ly sentiment. 1t could accomplish nothing
unless the moral sentiment kept under it as
prop We must enforce the law, but We
must keep our moral energies mt work, so
that there may be no REIMBURSEMENT of the
law (applause). 1t was sad thing that
although this law existed more than week
agoit was not enforced before. 1t was dis
grace to us as town that it had been al
lowed to be broken SO often Every bar
was disgrace to the community. 1t was
a direct charge of hypocrisy upon the tenn
perancc people who protesting to have the
heart yet fails TO use it, lie hoped the
enforcing the law in this town would not
die out, but that every person would help
on the good work
JUDGE DUNTON
was called out and made one of the most
effective speeches of the evening, Almost
the last temperance meeting that he attend
ed in Rutland was meeting of the Good
Samartans at the Congregational church.
Something that he had said there was dis
liked by some of the temperance men who
took the opportunity of abusing him in the
then only temperance paper in town. was
not his love for the cause greater than the
contempt he entertained for those men he
should not again appear before temper
ance meeting. (Applausc.) He was happy
to see so great an uprising of the people up
on this question which had come TO us
from the west and which was spreading all
over the country He hoped it might con
tinue until we should put an end to idm-
selling and rum-drinking in This com
munity.
If the legal enactments upon this ques-
ton were not sanctioned they woulC
become dead letters. The manner ii
which the law had been executed served il
some measure here to bring it into con
tempt. The man who was arrested fol
drunkenness was fined S13.0i, while the
man who sells the liquor is fined for Tho
single sale, when 1t is well known that ;
hundred witnesses could be brought t.
show as many sales against him. ThC
Judge believed in reprimanding tn drunk
ard and imposing triple fine upon thu
rum-selcr. (Applausc.) If the rum-selle
did not stop his traffic he must be n'ade t.
stop, while every man should be iine'
when found guilty, be ne thu
highest or the lowest in the com
munity. The speaker condemned tn
spasmodc action heretofore mad
when some one would become enthusiasts
and seize a few gallons and then all at ono
stop. Rum-scllcrs, beside. respect the res
ular officers and not those who are depu
tized on the spur of the moment, and Il wa
muchlcasicr to so execute the law. lie state
his experience at Nergcnnes where 5000
was subscribed to execute the law in tina
city. and there he had been told that mucI
of this help was given by the moderaI
drinkers. What was true Of Nergcnne
was true of Rutland, He was in favor O
thorough canvass aud thought more q
that class would be found in favor OF ill
movement than was now dreamed of II
hoped the movement would be continue
until rum-sellers found that it was no hoy
play and that rum-selling in this c0mmnn
ty had got to cease. (Applause)
hen. X. CHASE
81, d he felt particularly willing TO be know
ON This subject. He believed in tho'
who l,ad executed the law and did NJ
drink a. all. He proposed to be II ten
pcrance II. an just so long as there was al
wood to saw. or dirt to dig. and would sig
the papers for the enforcement OF Il
liquor law as long as his right arm held
col. W. a. vEAzEY
was called out and sid he supposed II
principal question agi tated at the time vi
as to whether the pro hibitory liquor Ia
should be enforced. So long as that la
was on the statute he was IN favor OF lis G
forcement. 1t was law and should
enforced, while he could nat suggest
better law to take its place. qc teliev'
the sentiment of the community wal d
cidedly in favor of its enforcement
will be enforced when people see man
and persistent efforts toward it Law hi
been brought in TO disrepute by spasrrod
efforts. The movers in the work will
supported and the sentiment of the rel,u
lcan party was in favor of it, whatcv
others might say to the contrary. "a
plause.) If the work went on in n strai"i
forward, manly course there was no don
of its success.
| REV. Il Mills