Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1877-05-11

Doubtless she is doing a good work. W,
may be permitted to add. with only gooC
wishes for her success, that perhaps sht
would have been more successful here if sht
had spent less time and breath in scoldins
the people, churches, press and community
of Burlington, for insufficient appreciation
other services. In great work, the cause
Is everything and individuals are nothing
and the reformer who is easily diverted by
criticism, from attack upon gigantic evil,
who is easily put upon his personal defence,
or who betrays individual pique by sharp
determinations, will seldom achieve the
highest suceess.
Perhaps this is good time to say. as u
general proposition. that few reforms are
so strong that they can afford to dispense
with the exercise of mutual charity among
the promoters thereof. 1t seems to be
a misfortune of the temperance reform that
so many Of its advocates should so insist
On moulding all opinions and efforts and
methods, exactly on their own. Other peo-
| pie must say exactly what they say, and in
the way in which they say it. must work in
exactly the same ways, must adopt pre-
cisely the same pledges, must accept IN
hesitatingly and without question the course
they point out-Or they need to be reformed
as badly as the worst. If they profess to be
friends of temperance they are set down as
hypocrites. time-servers, or towards. Ii
they make no loud professions they are
dead weight on the cause. In either case
they are remanded to their own place"
along side Of the rep-obates.
1t is hardly thus that good cause is best
served. Faultfnding with Others for lack
Of zeal, is the cheapesti kind of manifes-
tation Of zeal. 1t is by no means always
evidence of true earnestness. 1t may be
evidence of pdnt OF carnestness. The great
rebellion would never have been put down
if each man had spent his strength in
watching his fellow. The people then re
cognized the fact that there was work for
all. and that each might and must work in
his own way. There were some vino loudly
denounced slavery and treason; and there
were Others on whose lips no word of de-
nunciation of the South or of any man in
it from jeff Davis down was ever heard,
but who marched as resolutely to the front,
and fought as bravely as the loudest. There
were some who neither talked or marched,
but who paid their moneysf0r the support
of those who did; and there were others
who could give only wishes and
prayers to the good cause. and it was all
that was asked of them. The only test re-
quired was that of common devotion to the
Union; and, as a rule. the people asked.
each what he could do for the good cause,
and not whether his neighbor was doing
exactly as much and exactly what he was.
When similar spirit of harmony and
charity animates the masses engaged in this
reform, it will 60 on with power not
hitherto known. 1t is now great and
strong movement: but. as We have said. it
is not so strong that its friends can afford |
to quarrel with their helpers, or to despise |
and reject the good wishes of those who |
choose to select their own field of labor |
and to take their own way of reaching the |
same end. Mrs. Molloy told story of
man who ran otter a runaway horse and
wagon with precious load. shouting
"stop that horse,' lie shouted well, and
to good purpose; but the quiet people,
who formed living barrier in front of the
frightened animal, and snatched from death
the fair haired child. were entitled to some
credit, though they did no shouting and
got no praise from the speaker. Let each
have credit for what good he does; and for
his good will, if he can give little else to
the cause; and let all remember that no
good cause is helped by consciousness, jeal-
ousy, or evil-surmising.
The DELAWARE AND UuDsoN CANAL Con-
PASY.-The annual meeting Of this company
took place in New York. on Tuesday. Mr..
Dickson. president of the company. in re-
ply to questions put by various stockhold-
,rs, stated that the loss on the New York
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