Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1874-03-20
TEMPERANCE SCRAPS.

The folly of making small liquor seizures
was illustrnted at the recent raid on the Ha-
yerhill saloons. \ 'clean sweep" was made
at one of the rum-shops, but in less than l.;
minutes after the police were out ofsight, the
proprietor invited the dozen loungers in the
room TO walk up and take drink offer
ing them their choice of five kinds Of liquor.
The story comes from England that the
mental disorder from which the painter
l.andseer suffered in his last DAYS was caused
| by oyer-indulgence in wine. The Liverpool
Post in stern morality remarks 1T should
not be either pretended or allowed to be
thought that the calamity of mental over
throw falls, even upon genius. by mysteri-
Gus fate, when it has been invoked by n iaul-
ty manner of living"
\ man in Burlington, Iowa. cast aside the
bowl, or bottles or beaker, or what You will
Money which he would otherwise have spent
for the cup which cheers some and inebriates
more. he deposited in bottle. He meant
to surprise his wife, but she surprised him,
for the traded off his bottle-bank for tin-ware.
Ii was too much for the reformed gentleman.
His appetite for the ardent revived to a most
uncomfortable extent. The serpent coiled
within bit him again, and when he reforms
he intends to use tin savings bank such as
no peddler would give penny for.
\ Detroit mother does her moral suasion
with club. She recently interviewed
rumseller who had led her boy from the
paths of temperance. and when he attempted
to put her out of doors she beat him W it'll
her club and spoiled every decanter in the
house, The spectators were amazed at the
exhibition, but they failed to help the liquor
dealer. They simply remarked that the lady
was acting "agin the law" and then cheered
her yiolenceas fine exhibition ofan abstract
principle having nothing to do with the par
ticular case at issue And it would seem,
on the whole, that the best supporters of the
ladies of wrath who have embarked in the
temperance business are the hahitual drink
ers themselves. Nobody knows to much
about the evils of intemperance as the habit
ual drinker and nobody is 50 easily convert
ed, or so earnest when converted, as the man
who is habitually half-seas over.
Some of the western papers are calling the
women's temperance movement pretty hard
names. In St. Louis it is known as the
whiskey zootic.
On the day when MAJOR Jones made the
famous proclamation that there was not an
open bar in Boston, two gentlemen procured
the services of an intelligent guide and visit
ed nearly thirty drinking places in thesquare
bounded by School, fremont, Court and
Washington streets Some of these were of
the worst description. The persons present
were not casual visitors, but were wasting
their time in dissipation. sitting in dense
clouds of pipe-smoke, drinking regularly or
irregularly, and shaking props OF dice.
open bars are bad enough But hund-
red "open bar" in the same district could
not have done 50 much injury to the morals
of youth as these secret dens were doing
B ostoa Adrerfiser.
The fact that the Rev. Henry Powers,
formerly of Boston. but now pastor of the
Church of the Messiah of New York has tax
en- position against the temperance-praying
bands, caused much comment among the par
ties interested. In his address Rev Mr.
Powers held that total abstinence is an i'm
possibility to healthy constitution, that the
humiliation of stimulants would be an evil
In conclusion he said WHAT we want is
agitation and discussion. Then let us 20
down to the drinking man and offer him
something better than drink. Let us pro-
vide him with place which shall be more
pleasant than the bar-room Let US buy him
from the devil by offering good price"