Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1884-11-24
A TALK WITH THE MESSEN-
GER.

prohibition ticket as ''the cranky and
Impractical few" and seems to think
that they have stolen their liberty of
conscience from the republican party,
as the rightful owner of the prohibit
tionists. Will the NJ lNIToR kindly
inform the upwards of two thousand
cranks who voted in Vermont at the
last election, when his party obtained
bill of sale of their consciences,
and where il is on record ?-Messen-
ger.
The above is from the Messenger,
formerly Il religious paper run in the
interests of the Methodist church of
Vermont. Of late it has been diff
cult to class that paper at all, but its
editorials have been on the line of
temperance, especially of the st.
John line. The editor, Bro. j. r.
Bartlett, who Yields ready pen,
joined the party which he pleases to
denominate "cranks'' early in the
summer and has grown more and
more 'cranky'' from the start. He
is great deal like other boys who
run away from home, they grow more
and more enraged with themselves
and have harsher and worse things to
say of "the old man, as they get
farther from home. Mr.. Bart
lett is getting so that he can berate
the party he has deserted almost as
violently as the independents he
can relate all that is true and much
that isn't. His fall like other apos-
tates will end in the farthest removal,
doubtless, from the place he once
occupied. We are asked to inform
the upwards of two thousand
cranks, etc., when the prohibition
party obtained bill of sale of their
consciences, and where is the re-
cord?" The republican party has
no bill of sale on the fifteen hundred,
not two thousand, (for the credit of
the state do not make the number
larger than it is) deluded people who
voted for st. John, neither does it
wish any.
The MONITOR knows that the great
er part of those who went into the
ST. John movement went in consci-
entiously; it knows just as well that
they went in without measuring the
consequences Of their folly. They
are to-day, for the greater part
ashamed Of it themselves, as theil
actions show. Mr.. Bartlett calls
himself ''crank' and if we were
looking for a term that would exact
ly express it, we could not better hi:
selection. He has used the Messen
ger largely for several months ii
building up a sentiment in behalf o
ST. John few other papers in tn
, state, and certain individuals hay
labored hard for that cause. The"
, have been objections to both of tn
leading presidential candidates whic
| have tended to drive away here AM
y there man. Vermont is over flu
! of temperance people; the time for
, sensible temperance movement
propitious-all these influences hav
+ tended toward the making of heav
: prohibition vote. Now one Of tw
e things must be true: the vote wa
f such an one in numbers as to sho
f that intelligent temperance mer
: possessed of common sagacity SUP
;. ported the cause; or the vote, if
= small one, must have condemned tt
/ efforts of the few who sought to il
t. fuence the mass. The result shove
IS that only one man in fifty of the vo
# ing population of Vermont was will
20 ing to do so foolish q thing as
# throw away his vote on the prohit
!, ton candidates. Now, Bro. Ban
" lett, your course does not absolute
J. prove that you are really a Gran
If but the circumstantial eviden
against you, in almost any cou
If would be such as to warrant the ju
IS in finding you guilty
. The Messenger does not cease
r revile the republican party for
so course in temperance. We claim til
is the course of the republicans III Il
he state has been sensible, radical al
as wise. We have no doubt that a
at fifteen hundred men who might
be taken at random from the repr
aw lican party of Vermont
,st day. are doing more temperar
lst work in influencing public sentime
"a executing the prohibitory law, in Il
,rs islation, and in all directions VIII
nd temperance work is being done Il
ZEN Brother Bartlett and the whole
to John crew. We commend the z
es, of the Bro. Bartletts, but we have
me poorest opinion of their judgmen
they ought to gravitate to one pa
ey, or the other where they can do sc
sly good, for the result of their efft
in the national prohibition"
the shows that so diminutiye a tail
IN. never wag a party dog.
G.. .-<-.-----
an The committee of five appointed by
=. st. Adams Trust company deposi
when the company failed last year
cat watch their interests, present a 81
ton ment of the present condition of the
ew- pany. They say Receiver Rich will p
rry, aoiy ueclue aho'ner dividend OF II
IN cent, within two or three months,
hint that at least 90 per cent more
vi be expected, making total of so
lnIy