Bradford opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1874-1881, 1876-01-29
Make Il OdlOns.


We will endeavor, with every
power which God has given us, to
make the traffic in intoxicating
drinks Odious. And to do this it
will not be at all necessary to strain
q point or vary u jot or little from
the truth, the whole truth and moth
ing but the truth.
The murderer expiating his crimes
upon the scatlold admonishes all
within reach of his voice to beware
OF strong drink. From the wine
supplied, it may be, at the home Ia
BILE, he has gone on to beer, then to
whiskey, then to the gallows. the
thief tells the same tale. Run, ac-
cursed rum, made him commit the
midnight robbery. The incendiary,
before he applies the torch to the
dwelling, quenches conscience ana
every better feeling, by the beyer-
age Of hell. Every crime in the
whole calendar of crimes can be di-
rectly traced, nine times out of ten.
to the beverage that obliterates from
man every vestige of manhood. Is
q home destroyed 7 wife made mis-
cradle children left naked and hun
CRY? Look for the cause and you
will discover that the rum tiend is
the worker of destruction, the break
er of hearts, the robber of children.
Wherever rum goes, misery, DIES
olation and ruin follow. Along the
Shiny trail of this giant monster,
this demon of the pit, can be found
broken hopes, ruined homes. desc
late hearthstones, blasted lives,
squandered fortuner and blighted
intellccts. In the trail of this mon.
ster, woe in more rapid succession
than day follows night. Visit the
Jails, the poor houses, the penitenti
aries and insane asylums of our
land and you will find them crowd
ed with the victims of rum.
Out from the rum shops of Amer
lea are constantly coming our muir
derers, our thieves, our incendiaries.
The rum shops are the criminal
breeding and the crime producing
shops or houses of the Nation. In
the establishments every species of
crime is hatched. Around this traf-
fic everything that is vile, infamous,
unholv and detiling. In its praise
not one good, truthful word can be
uttered. Every Christian minister,
evSry good citizen should be found
on the side of right, batting against
this great iniquity. Down with it !.
Down with it! should be shouted
from ocean to ocean, and from pole
to pole. All men having the love
of God within them should hold
this accursed destroyer up to pub
lie scorn, and public contempt, thus
aiding to make it odious through
out the world.-Lirmg Age.
The WAY THEY DID IN THE
OLDEN TINE. The Rev. James
Hobbs was settled as the first min,
lister of Pelham in the year 1872,
and any one may naturally infer
from the following extract from the
town records that the ministers com
posing the council at the ordination
INDUCED in something of a ''bust."
"At a Town Meeting, March We
%. 1852, Voted to allow Henry Bald
win, Esq, ID pounds, old tenor, for
finding Ticker for We Ordination.
AT town meeting sometime af-
ter committee was chosen "to Dig.
nitie We seats in the Meeting House."
AT a subsequent meeting the com
mitteo reported :'That the Pewe
nearest the pulpit be for the minis
ter's family, and that the twelve
Pewes next nearest ye pulpet be as,
signed to ye twelve highest tax pay
erS in We order of their taxes, the
higher their taxes the nearer the
pulpet, and so on"
These ''Pewes' were logs hewn
on two sides and laid on blocks.