Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1874-05-01
TEMPERANCE SCRAPS.

For some time past the advertisements oi
drinking saloons for sale have been hume.
rous, and now the applications for licenses
snow decrease in one year of one thousand
two hundred and five. This is equivalent to
a falling off in this branch of the liquor
trathc OF nearly one-third in twelve months.
To whatever cause this is to be attributed,
whether TO "the times or the influence OF
public opinion, or to the prayers of so many
good people, the fact remains for the gratif-
cation of the advocates of total abstinence
and the instruction of the general public
Philadelphia Press.
The Cincinnati COmmerdal says that the
crusade il over, as far as Ohio Is concerned
and that the wOmen's movement of that
State in all its destructive characteristics is
at an end The praying bands do not excite
even curiosity and their presence Is no check
on drinking over the bar.
The New England conference of the Meth
odiSt church, at it, recent session at Boston.
unanimously passed resolution protesting
against the repeal or mutilation of the pro-
hibitory law or the enactment OF license
law, and voted that the resolution be sent to
the president of the State Senate and the
speaker of the House Of Representatives.
with request that it be read to their re-
| pectiye bodies.
The grand lodge Of Good Tempars Of
Maine held its 10th annual session at Lewis
ton, last week, with the largest attendance
ever known. There are 1875 lodges in the
State, with a membership of nearly 10000
there has been gain of 10 lodges and ,3lj
members since January 81, and the past
year is the first in six in which there has
been an increase of members, and the receipts
have exceeded the expenditures The Grand
Worthy Chief Templar calls attention to the
fact that, while state governments prohibit
the sale of intoxicating drinks, the federal
government allows it, and suggests that Il
movement be made to put a stop to the i'm
portation Of liquor.
Madame De Noailles. wife Of the late
French minister at Washington, tecgraphs
to the New York Trilune that the liquors
surrendered to the women crusaders ought
not to be poured out and wasted. but sent to
hospitals. and used Tor medicinal purposes.
The lady'S suggestion Is doubtless well in
tended, but if carried out would immensely
increase the hospital death lists. She does
not know the character of the liquors sold in
the average American saloon.
George II. Brooks. of the firm of Walsh.
Brooks * Kellogg, of Cincinnati, the largest
diStillcrs in the United States, and who
manufactured 50 600 barrels of whiskev. last
year. says that the whiskey business in the
West, or, at least, the wholesale branch of
it, has not been crippled by the women'-
crusade. During February, he says, the
whiSkey trade was larger than for the cor
responding month, last year. but. during
March, there was slight falling off Taken
together, there was more business during
the last two months than for a like period,
last year. The ale and beer brewers have
been more seriously affected than distillers.
1t seems that John Quincy Adams, Of
Quincy, owns buildings in that town, in
which are club rooms where "balm" Is
partaken of by numerous old and young
men. The ladies therefore petitioned Mr.
Adams to discontinue the letting of said
rooms for such purposes and sent com
mittee to wait ON him, and present the peti-
ton. One Of them addressed Mr.. Adams as
follows We come not for ourselves alone, |
but for the cause we advocate, and for the |
mothers, wives and children of this COM
munity who suffer from intemperance; were /
it not for that great evil there would not be
the misery. crime and DEGRADATION that now |
exist. The "old man eloauent'' truly re /
marked in Congress that 1.-THE humLle-t |
have the right of retition." We therefore |
hope that you. bearing his hanorcd name. |
viii grant our petition. and say. rs did your
illu.triouS ancestor. when h. signed the .
Declaration Of Independence. Sink or
swim. live or die. survive or pcrish. | am for /
the Declaration" Mr.. Adam, promised .
that he would take the matter into consider
alton. and the committee Withdrew.
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