News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1883-12-13

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CONDUCTED By THE LAMOILLE COUNTY
GOOD TEMPLARs' UNION.
Rum and License; or, the Reign
of Terror Concluded.

Four distilIcries, employing thou
| sand men IN the manufacture of alcohol,
would be amply sufficient to supply the
demand for all chemical and medical pur-
poses, and it need not cost the govern
ment a cent, whereas. as it is to-day, it
costs enough to pay the national debt of
| S.. OOG. OOO. 900 inside of two years. Or
isn't the government responsible? For
what. let me ask, is the national govern
ment instituted? What is it for: Is it
not designed for the protection of the
life. liberty and prosperity of her citi-
zens while engaged in the peaceful pur-
suit of happiness? And is this done when
rum rules? Does Il license to commit
crime afford protection? And yet. we
are told by men who ought to know, that
four-fifths. if not nime-tGnthS of all the
crimes committed are chargeable to rum.
The government is pleased to make laws
to protect the brute. No man has any
right to put poison III the way of dog,
or other domestic animal. And how
much better is Il man than brute. And
yet, there are in these United States
and Territories. more than Il hundred
! thousand places where poison is kept to
kill men, and these all licensed by the
| general government.
! know it may he said that man is an
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enough not to take poison, even though
it be offered him. which is true. But man
! is a creature of circumStan ccS. lie may
be deluded and emticed. under the intlu
ence OF temptation, TO 40 what ne would
not 10 II the temptation was removed.
Besides, the scriptures pronounce woe
upon the man VINO gwen MS nei@hoot
Drink; VINO puIIeth Ihe ooIIle 10 mn! anu
maketh MN drunken also. Ana Is not
this Just what the national government
is doing IN giving a license to sell rum:
Then if it be a woe in the case of indIvid-
nails what must il be where it is done ut
wholesale?
14-,,,,,z 70 ma +I,o+ nc . NATHAN a. ,,o1I
as individuals, we shall be held respOm-
sible for the almost infinite degree OF
human suffering that Is brought about by
granting a license to this king of tCrrOrS.
And though the government may cry out
in the most sublime and pathetic tone,
Am | my brothers Keepers yet above
and beyond this will be heard in the ears
of the Lord of SabaOth, the voice OF a
"BrOther's blood crying unto him from
the ground. and God may also put his
mark upon us so that we may not escape
our doom. Would to God the nation
might give heed to these things and be
admonished. for certain 1t Is that most
dread results Will follow the evils OF
such a course. 1t needs not pulpit, OF
a son of pulpit. to see that sooner OF
, LATER, God will vindIcate His course and
drive intemperance from the land. 1t
, may cost blood, and doubtless will, be
fore the work will be fully accomplished
but it must and will be done. For how
can we expect that such giant evil vii
} be suffered to exist any more than At"i
can slavery, or the gross hypocricy o
the people of the Jews; in the days o
: the Son of God and the son OF man
without destruction to tH%9e VINO IoHleI
, It, Ana my most h,'"io'e anu e"l'i .,7
I pray q 70 Dio" -, f', ~ mt , I ~,
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: structiOn comes. But what can we, Il
T., individuals. do. so long as the nation ant
< the World give tnenl Il incense: IL seem
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Is hoG TO the strong alone, but to the VIC
> liant, the active ana the brave. We cal
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