Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1877-06-11

drunkenness, and referred to the great
responsibilities of parents toward chill
dren. Parent should teach their chill
dren temperance as cardinal principle
of virtue. Physicians have great inAu-
ence in the families where they are en-
ployed and should be extremely careful
in regard to their influence on temper
ance. The DIR. referred to instances
where certain physicians of loose moral
habits had done much harm in their
spheres. and emphasized the Importance
of having men of this profession who
are clean, moral, temperate and Christian.
DR.. Skinner spoke in his usually log
ical and fluent manner, dwelling, as did
the preceding speaker, on the influence
of the doctor in the family, and the
danger of employing any but those of
clean habits and good moral principles.
He thought that while the clergyman
and lawyer exercised great influence on
the community, the influence of the
physician was even greater.
Mr.. J. E. Green, reformed man,
spoke on the duty of the citizens of the
county, as to the enforcement of the
liquor laws, and remarked that inasmuch
as the "wisdom and virtue" of the State
had decided that it was necessary to en-
act liquor laws, it was self evident that
it was the duty of citizens to live up to
and carry out said laws. He said that
it was useless to attempt to suppress
rumselling except by law; that men
would always be found who would sell
rum if they were allowed to do SO. He
said God had done his part in the tenn
perance work. He had given us tenn
perance legislature and good temper
ance Governor to sign the Nuisance Act,
and now if we would do our part there
would be nothing needed. Small, CON-
paratively, as are the number of rum
sellers in the county, they have managed
to fill the Jail with their victims and are
doing work that is dragging men down
to hell. If the law Is not put in force
the ignominy rests on the temperance
people of the State.
Mr.. Goodnough of Littleton, n. H.,
spoke on this subject, and referred to
the work done in his State, by moral
reform, but he believed in the vigorous
enforcement Of the law.
Rev. Mr.. Thomas recommended that
the press, the pulpit, the lawyer, the
physician, the farmer, and in short every
influential individual take a decided
outspoken stand on the side of temper.
ance.
In the absence of those assigned tt
the subject: How can the Temperance
work be best advanced in the County
Rev. Mr.. Wild discussed the subject
briefly. He said that every temperance
man should practice temperance. moi
only so far as intoxicants were concerned
but in everything that tended to deflt
the body secondly let everybody preach
temperance at all proper seasons and il
all proper places thirdly let every body
prosecute the violators of the law. lie
there be combined effort on the par
of moral people and the rumseller will
be prosecuted out of existence. Last,
he said that we should pray for the sup
preston of the vice. and rely on Divine ali
after we have done all we can for th,
cause of good.
Rev. Mr.. Clapp said that the bibl
taught, that God was no respecter o
persons, and thought in the enforcement
of the law, it should make no diferenc
whether the rum vender occupied
home 20x30 feet, or one that covere,
one half an acre. He had known al
instance where door had been closed b
the Nuisance Act, and afterwards open
ed and bird cage hung out of the doc
to indicate that everything was Lowell
without and within, but h
: imagined that the fumes and stencil is
surfing from the door told of nightly rev
elry within.
Judge Thompson thought We had a,
the law necessary, and only needed
little care in the selection of certai
, officers and little genuine stamina i
r their execution.
Rev. Mr.. Chittenden thought frol
the tenor of the remarked that the swor
/ of temperance power was sheathed, an
needed only to be thoroughly wielde
to drive the enemy from the State. Il
: SUI ggested the propriety of system
, detectives, whose business it should
: to visit suspected places, and obtain il
formation and proof of the sale of liquo
s He wanted to find class of men wit
f temperance back bones.
Rev. Mr.. Haley reminded the audien'
r that the bible taught the principles
e temperance, and that Christianity W;
the great, main hope and power in Il
!, temperance movement.
q L. NJ. Shedd Esq. of Coventry opent
: the discussion on, Juvenile Moral r
form, by stating that the idea was pre-
alent that the country was safer pla
e to bring up children, than the city, b