The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1876-01-04
WOMANS' TEMPERANCE COL.
UMN.
What Can Woman do in the
Temperance Cause u?

AtIHp6rdUC0 CduSc
When women ask the above question,
"Work" seems the appropriate reply, con.
tirmed with prayer. The following quo
tatioDs may show some of the results in
favor Of temperance work, since the
w, @. T. U. have taken the matter in
hand. Says Mrs. S. II. Bolton in Tie
Adcance Sept. a. 1876 "At the same
time that one thousand persons gathered
in Chicago to pray and work for the ut
ter determination of the whisky and beer
traffic, large body OF men, The Brew
ers' Congress- in Cincinnati assembled to
devise measures to carry on and Increase
this work of ruin. The president of this
association, Mr.. Reuter-, of Mass, says:
For the first time within the history of
this association (thrteen years., it has
to be stated that the business has not
only not increased during the present is.
cal year, but that it has ~ctually decroas.
ed. Quite remarkable is the falling off
in the number Of breweres in operation
Says Mr.. Schade, editor Washington
Sentinel: " In 1873 there were 1854
breweries in 1874 the number is reduc.
ed to 1924, a reduction of I,030. In
Ohio the crusaders destroyed 9S out of
296 breweries. The local option law in
Pennsylvania reduced the number of
those in that state from 500 in 1873 to
BAG in 1874, thus destroying in enc year
l54 breweries. In Michigan it is even
worse, for of 202 breweries in 1878, only
6S remained in 1874. In Indiana the
Baxter law stopped &C out Of 1873. or
more than one.third Of the whole nun. Der.
In Illinois 81 out Of 2l0. Missouri re.
duced from 130 to 90. In New York
from 4Sl to $40. In Maryland from
10 to 6j !" and adds, "some few of those
stopped are in those counties in which
they have local option law. We sin
cerely hope that the Maryland democracy
which had yielded too much to the Wo.
men crusaders will take an early oppor-
tunity to eradicate that unjust law shat
permi he people of a certain portion of
the stae to be put under the tyranny and
despotsm Of these fanatics In New
Jersey the number Of brewers has dim
minished from 81 to Ga. In Kentucky
from SO to "a. In Montana from 81 to
20. In Kansas from 55 to 40. In
Minnesota from 132 to 100. In Iowa
FROM ia to 129. In Wisconsin from
$50 to pol. In letter from TriJune
correspondent. Oct.19, on American wine
ard its production in western New
York speakipg of the Harris community,
who are great manufactures of wine, he
says, d" The president of this Brotherhood
gave discouraging account of the wine
business, and said the Brotherhood would
be glad to get back the first cost of the
twenty-five thousand gallons they had on
hand. There was no demand for light,
cheap wines, and the costier grades come
in competition with the spurious foreign
stuff made in New York from cheap al
cohol, sugar and coloring and favoIing
extracts, and bottled, with fancy labels.
Many people preferred these counterfeits
to the pure native wines because they
were smoother to the taste. The super
intendent took from his desk q circular
he had just received from a New York
concern, offering oil of Catawba, port,
sherry, MADEIRA, brandy, &C., and inclos.
ing receipts for making wines and liquors
with the aid of their essential oils. He
spoke of the temperance agitation and
prohibitory law as injurious to the wine
trade. The temperance advocates he said
were just as severe against the sale of the
pure juice of the grape grown at their
own doors as against the traffic in the
vllest poisoned whisky"
The above testimony is from the anti
Temperance men themselves, and is o for
midable array Of facts in favor Of tenn
perance work. In the first quotation the
crusade gets the credit of the devastat.
ing work in Ohio, and the Democracy Of
Maryland are accused of yielding to the
women crusaders. And what were their
weapons? Yes; women can pray, and
prayer is mighty to the pulling down Of
strongholds. They can rightfully call
upon every liberty.loving fellow citizen
to join their cause. We can urge on
such men to put principles above politics.
A standing rebuke to thousands of Chris,
tian men in this country to-day, who
claim to have the welfare of the country
and nation at heart is, they put party
before principles.
am glad the W. G. T. U. have made
correction Of a great mistake in their
Aarlier Constitution of having no member
ship fee. IF the one hundred thousand
women members of the temperance unions
paid dollar year each there would be
a large fund in advancing the work
Twenty-Five cents may reach large mum.
ber who are glad to give something in aid
of this work A reform Of this kind can
not be effected without means. Expense
is not spared by the enemies of this
cause, to carry on their work. When We
remember that intemperance ilches hun.
dreds Of thousands of dollars from the
earnings Of working men, and beggars
their families, and frequently makes their
homes scenes OF sorrow and death, we
ought 10 feel the Importance of the use
of money as an aid to combat it,
Mrs f. A. WARNER.
Cornwall, VT
Mr.. GoUGH's New LEcrURE.-ln Mr..