Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1883-08-17

ceeded to give brief view Of her visits to
prisons both North and South and the result
Of her investigations showed that 80 per
cent were there from the influence Of rum.
The speaker laid especial stress upon the
result of investigation of our own State pris-
on at Windsor with its POS convicts, 20 of
them being Vermont boys - the largest
native per cent found in any prison visited.
Then tracing the stream back to its source
the beginning of the evil was
found in the Il Ter of our homes.
Giving some very clear and pupgent
scenes from per:onal knowledge as
Illustrations. Then, with an earnest appeal TO
the women of the state TO purge their homes
from the evil, she brought her addfess-of
more than an hour in length-to close, the
large audience regrctting that time was so
short.
Wednesday Afternoon.
The attendance in the afternoon was much
larger than in the morning, many having ar
rived on the noon trains. AT O'Clock the
audience having assembled, with large
number of children directly 10 front Of tic
stand. Rev. Peter Merrill, ono of the oldest
ministers in the Vermont conference opened
with prayer, after which Mrs. Barney CAV
an address TO the children, showing how vile
intoxicating liquors are, laying particular
stress upon the influence of worm
juice or cider, the curse of Yer
mont. She gave many forciblc illnstra-
traliOns in support of her remarks, and also
used several charts, fully illustrating them TO
the children. Rev. S. W. Clemens, of Drums
wick, NY, was then introduced. Mr.. Glenn
ems referred to the fact that it was 40 years
since he had addressed an audience in Morris
town, his first appointment having been the 4
towns of Morristown, Hyde Park, Elmorc
and Wolcott. The speaker said he
was fast losing confidence in the
idea of reforming drunkard, and
gave an instance ia his own experience
OF where 240 were most happily converted
in revival, 10 of the number being drunk
ards, and ali of them, after the most strrnu-
Gus forts had been made for them, were
finally shipwr,cked The cause is making
great advances in the West, and the PROS
poets are brighter now than for long time.
The law in this state is nothing but a
local option law, it will not enforce
ITSELF but the peop'e must do it.
Nothing can be expected of the two political
parties. The Democratic party makes no
pretensions of temperance, and you might as
well try TO extract milk from last years
corncob as to expect anything from them.
The Republicans make professions, but do
not live up to them. The speaker was mucn
interested in the election OF Garfield, going
on the stump and working strenuously in his
behalf, but since the assassination of the
President he finds himself in the frame OF
mind the old woman was in when her hus-
band was fighting with a bear-she didn't
care which licked"
Abiding to the cowardice of the rummies,
he said if oil should stand true to
the cause, to themselves and to their
God, they would triumph. He was
sorry and mortfiedto find that the
defeat of the amendment to the constitution
was due to i'll advised action of those who
ought TO have been its friends, Mr. Clemeps
prophesied that the issue of the campaign of
1888 would be rum, and he wanted 10 engage
in tue work and forward the triumph.
About two thousand were in attendance
Wednesday. Yesterday afternoon a collec-
tiou of nearly $50 was taken to dclray the ex-
penses of the meeting.