St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1880-02-06

free rum. Their greatest trouble came
from Orleans county. There was al
open bar at Spaulding's hotel at Bar,
ton, and about the same at the other
hotels. Men from their town could get
all the liquor they wanted at Barton.
VIM. P. Houghton said plenty of liq
uOr was sold and drank in Lyndon
there was young man under arrest
there to-day for intoxicatiOn. There
were at least two places where liquor
was sold at the Corner, and three OIL
four at Lyndonville. He did not think
the town had advanced any ia temper
ance sentiment the past year.
DR.. Fl. P. Hoyt thought we should &c
back to first principles-the pledge,
mass meetings, intoxicating good doc
trine in the children, holding meetings
in school districts, and in other ways
stirring up the people. This was the
way it was done in old times, and to
this we owe our present good temper
ance law.
iona. Lawrence was hardly citizen
of Waterford, but being the emily rep
resentative present, he would report.
He thought the town tolerably free
from liquor; year ago this winter a
Reform Club was organized at Pas
sumpsic and run until spring. 1t had
some lectures on temperance, but had
not been resuscitated this winter. His
section of the town was temperate, but
he saw some come regularly to St.
Johnsbury two aud three times a week,
and he had no doubt they came for
liquor.
w. Fl. Preston was called out to re-
port for st. Johnsbury. He said he
knew very little about it; thought the
town not free from the liquor business
yet. but he believed not so much was
sold as some years heretofore. In order
to stop the illegal traffic, there was
work to be done, and it needed men of
backbone to follow it up. If one was
afraid of hard talk, or of doing some
thing unpopular, he was no man to en-
gage in the temperance work. During
the last year he had been at Danville
much, and there was no question what
As regards st. Johnsbury, he thought
the authOrities-bOth trustees and pO-
lice-were all straight and square on
the temperance question, and he look
ed for an impartial execution of the
law upon offenders.
Henry S. Wright spoke very encour-
agingly of the work of the Women's
Christian Temperance Union, and the
Cold Water Army. The women are
doing a good work in temperance if the
men are not.
The committee on resolutions then
reported as follows:
RESOLVED, That the work of this So
ciety should not be confined to its an
nual meetings and the adoption of
of its members to improve the record
of the past by making the year 1880
one of earnest work, both by holding
temperance meetings throughout the
county and by a general agitation of
the temperance cause.
Resolved, That it is the duty of every
temperance man to inform the county
commissioner of any remissness of duty
in the town agents coming within his
notice and also without fear or favor
to complain of, prosecute, or punish
any violation of the prohibitory law.
Resolved, That we urge upon parents
and churches the duty of guarding
children against the use of domestic
wine, beer, and cider.
ReSOlUed, That we insist on the nom
inatiOn of pronounced temperance men
for all civil offices.
Rev. B. Nj. TillOtson was called out
on the first resolution. He thought it
devolved on the officers of the society
to call meetings and give fresh impetus
to the temperance work. What is ev-
cry body's business is nobody's. This
is as true in the temperance work as
nything else. Let there be head to
plan, then hands to execute. Before
sitting down the speaker gave some
good words for the work of the women
in this place in their organized efforts.
DR.. Hoyt was present at Barnet forty
years ago when this society was organ
lied, and if he never met with them
again, he should go home to-day feel
ing that new impetus had been given
the temperance work.
Edward P. Allen spoke briefly of the
good these annual meetings did. The
reports got into the newspapers and
thus came before Il large audience. 1t
quickened the C ergy and they preached
temperance more; and all who spoke a
word for temperance did some good.
Rev. E. S. Locke of the Methodist
church said it was his conviction that
this society was making a mistake in
trying to regulate the sale of liquor
that all efforts should go to its annihi-
lation. He was glad to hear from ma
ny who reported from the towns, that
their towns had no agency and did not
want any. He then told the familiar
story of the Arabs camel who first Just
stuck his nose inside, and finally took
full possession of the tent, as illustrat-
ing liquor drinking. He did not be-
lieve in liquor agencies at all. If liq-
uor must be used compounded, it might
be Dad at the drug stores but he