St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1882-05-19
ST. cSulmsburp Galeduniall.
Temperance.

DtIOlt Studlt COlIhittcCf III oBPN0t
ton to Senator LOgan's bill to consu-
tute the whisky revenue national ed
ucational fund
The existence of civil society is an
assertion of the benefits, yea even the |
need, of association among the mem
beers of the great human family. at
is not good that man should live alone"
is a truth of wide application. This
association appears III rude and sim
pie form. OF III more finished and com
pick detail as man himself is barbarous
or advances in civilization.
Association for the development of
the earths material resources, which
reaches from the man who holds the
pillow and he who drives to the wide
range of agricultural implements made
necessary by the opening of the great
West.
Association in mechanical arts, from
the child who holds the skein of yarn
while the mother winds to the cotton
aud wooden and silk mills, where hun
dreds of ewes watch millions of flying
shuttles.
Association in trade and commerce,
from the solitary vender of fish from
the sea or water carrier from the well,
to the Wall street broker, Chicago
Corn Exchange, or railroad corporation
with millions of aggregate capital and
miles of railways.
Association in charity and phllan-
thropy, where two OF three being agreed,
walk together with open hands and
tender hearts, where even hundreds
stand together against the worlds
wrong and sorrow.
Association III direct work for the
betterment of society for the uplifting
of humanity from its load of sin and
vice and crime.
Association tor use of the more deli
cate and unseen forces of the spiritual
world. The Christian church is IA mon
ument of this association.
OF all forms of human association,
civil government is the widest, the
most comprehensive as well AS the
most complex. Under its broad root
live and labor all associations of lesser
domain or narrower circuit even the
Church of God, of Divine origin, with
subjective forces and objective issues
deeper and higher and more far reach
ing than any human associations, even
this, on the side of its visible agencies,
is under bonds to the state.
That is the most perfect form of gov
eminent which affords to each Its
proper domain of operation, and Is 1t
self the shelter and spirit of every
good. In Bible-phrase, that is ter
ror to evil doors and praise to those
who do we'll.
To the representatives of such i
government | come The Congress o
the United States, seeking to guaro
the interests of the whole people, has
appointed its various committees OF
all the interests of the body pOlitic-ol
agriculture, on trade and commerce
ON education and labor. To you, gen
tlcmen, as guarding these last-men-
TONED forces in society, | come.
Why do come Whom do rep
resent An association of women cit
liens. from the various states of this
Republic voluntary association fol
the expressed object of removing !
mighty evil an evil confessed to be
in the eloquent words of an honorable
member of your honorable body, the
Gigantic crime of crimes"
Did say voluntary association
Yes but compelled, made necessary
by common griefs and common woe
The Woman'S Christian Temperance
Union, through its representatives., ut
tacks this evil in every intrenchmen
of its power to which they have or cal
gain access. They educate the chill
drcn of the nation concerning the ma
ture of alcohol and its effects upon thu
human system. They carry the tota
abstinence pledge to young and old
they gather in the wandering and los
ones they feed the hungry and cloth'
the naked they circulate wise tenn
perance literature so that the testlmo
ny of science may stand side by sld'
with the pleadings of philanthropy
and, more than this, they lay siege t.
the legislative intrenchments of thu
evil. 1t is concerning this Legislative
intrenchment, and the proposition t.
enlarge the same, that desire to speal
to-day The association ! represen
has no legal status, no political eX
istence, no great financial strength
but il is rich in love of God and h0m
and native land and in prayers for tn
brave knights on every field who fin!
free lances in defense of its principles
In reference to what proposed meas
tor from Illinois-frOm my own glOri
Gus West IA gentleman illustriou
with achievements on the fields of wa
and in the arts of peace, has introduces
into the Senate of the United States
bill to appropriate and eXpend the en-
tire income derived from the interna
revenue taxes on the manufacture AM
sale of distilled spirits for the educa
ton for all of the children living i'll til
United States. Also IA bill Introduce
10y Senator from North Carolina t
enable the several states to collect "A
educational fund from taxes on dis
titled spirits and fermented liquors.
We rejoice in any movement lookln
to the better education of the childre
of to-day. who are To be the citizens {
tomorrow. The two bills mentione
above, as also one from the hOnOrabl
Senator from New Hampshire, tn
chairman of the committee who kindl
hear us to-day, are expressions of tn
recognized need of national interveT
ton To stay the tide of illiteracy tina
worse than Mississippi floods, threat
ems the homes, the life of the nation.
Too much cannot be said as to I'll
needs of national education. In I'll
early years of our history, when eac
state was not only as now, individu;
in her laws and sovereign i'll her pow
ers. but individual and separate i'll Il
spirit of her social and industrial lif
then. while the education i'll some stat,
was excellent and the illteracy in Otl
ers very great, the benefit or the 10,
were largely confined within state line
Not so now the nation is one in i
benefits and i'll its disasters thus II;
tional education becomes a present N
cessity. The condition of the SOuthel
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