The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1875-03-09
Che 8utland Daily Globe
TUESDAY, MARCH 8, 1875.
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Temperance Org

Editor Rutland Globe have been wait
ing for some time for some one to inform
your correspondent Of January 20th as to
the cause or causes of the falling off in the
collections by our state temperance agent
the past year as compared with the year
1878. admit that this CLOCKS bad, and |
do not know that shall be able to give
any reasons why it is so that will be salts
factory to the mind of your correspondent.
/ think, however, the fault is not 10 the
agent. All who have ever heard Inn lee
ture upon the subject OF temperance can
fully testify to his ability, intelligence and
zeal in the work. Within the last six years
twenty-six temperance societies have been
organized in the county of Rutland. Tween
ty-two of which were total abstinence So
ceties whose constitutions prohibited the
use of all intoxicating liquors, wine or
cider as a beverage Now, where are those
twenty-six organizations to-day know
of but five that are living, and those are in
very delicate health. When those organi-
cations were alive and earnest in the work,
almost any amount of money could be
raised for the purpose of pushing on the
temperance reform, and for the dessemina-
ton of temperance literature among the
people. This terrible mortality among the
temperance societies is not confined to Rut-
land county alone, other counties and por-
tions of the state are suffering through the
decline and demise of temperance organi-
cations, and the end is not yet If the friends
of the cause do not rally to the rescue
The old proverb, "In union there is
strength, has been ignored If men wish
to build railroad they organize if they
wish to improve the agriculture of the
state or county, they organize. If they
wish to promote morals and religion in a
community, they organize, they build
churches, they have their regular weekly
and semi-weekly meetings, and just in thai
| proportion that these organizations arc
alive and work they succeed. Now, let me
ask if the work for the determination OF the
means of temperance is an exception tC
this rule 1t appears so, if we are &c
judge by the present state OF things. II
does not appear necessary to organize IL
every town and village societies for the re-
moval of the cause of three.fourths of the
crime pauperism, taxation and the extreme
mental and physical suffering throughout
the land. The burden of this great work
is laid upon the shoulders of the few, and
it is expected that singe-handed they are
to grapple in with this mighty enemy and
conquer. What folly! If the exhorta-
ton of the spirit, as inforced by the Apos-
tie Paul to the Ephesians, was ever called
for, l think it is equally applicable to the
dead and dying temperance societies in this
state, "Awake, thou that sleepeth and
arise from the dead, and Christ give thee
light" The whole list of remedial meas
ures for the cure of incompetence and the
removal of its means may be set forth in
two brief words, "Work" and "Money. y
If we have the former well organized. we
shall have the latter The friends of tenn
perance may settle now and forever that
there is no easy way of victory in this re-
form, there is no subtle device, no inge-
NOUS strategy by which this mighty strug-
gle may be turned into pleasant pastme.
| 1t must be a stern, relentless war of exter-
mination if they would save themselves
and their children and the coming genera
tions from this fearful curse. INDEX.