Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1884-06-16

i1sto pdSI etb hOhOAtNRtN IOO0lN
on the slavery question, and in put
ting down fendish rebellion, or
viii they 90 blindly on to ruin by
their love of office and by their base
appetites till there is no redemption
for the party? VIII this allow itself
to place in the Presidential chair wine
bibbers to the disgrace of their high
office and as an offence to the tenn
perance and religious element OF this
nation, orwill it place such men as
the immortal Lincoln there, who new
maddened his brain or the brain of
others by vile intoxicants, or such
men as President Hayes, who follows
in the illustrious footsteps of Mr..
Lincoln on this subject? Let us re-
feet a moment that it IS an admitted
fact by able judges that eight tenths
of all the crimes and pauperism of
the nation are the fruit of liquor sell
ing and the drinking of it, that it
converts thousands of once happy
homes in this nation into hells, makes
widows and orphans by the thousand,
cost the nation seven hundred millions
of dollars directly annually, fourteen
times as much as the cost Of all the
common schools of the nation, con-
verts millions of dollars worth of diff
ferent kinds of grain into liquid poi
son. produces idleness, gambling and
all kinds of corruption in social and
political life corrupts the ballot box
so as to rule the nation in politics
for it is said liquor sellers and their
allies govern the city of New York,
and that city governs the state of
New York politically, and that state
the nation. All the large cities in
the nation govern the state politics,
and these cities are ruled by the liq-
uor power in its various forms. All
of the states north to-day would be
decidedly for prohibition were it not
for the corruption of the cities Men
selling liquor for gain, feeding upon
the sorrow, anguish, and broken
hearts of wives, widows and orphans,
and sending sixty thousand of our
once noble sons robbed of every viz
tue, out of this world to an awful
eternity. How terrible and revolving
the thought! g.a8ts5#
Let us send men to Congress who
are at heart prohibitionists. so that
they will pass a prohibition law in
the District of Columbia, and see
that it is executed. Men who will
second the efforts of Senator Blair,
from New Hampshire, in his effort to
pass national law to prohibit the
manufacture and sale of ardent spir-
its in the nation. He honors his Of
flee and his state in the position be
has taken on this subject. 1t may
make him as popular as it did John
Quincy Adams when he first brought
before Congress a bill to emancipate
the slaves in the District of Colum-
bia, though he had to face the sneers
and insults of both of the great po-
litical parties of that day, north and
south, but he quailed not in their
presence, but faithfully and persever-
ingly did his duty and gained the
victory in the end. 1t is sad to know
that many men in Congress are OPP
posed to abiding to this subject and
sheer at those who do talk about pro-
hibiting the manufacture and sale OF
liquors, men, some of them, who dis
grace themselves, their constituent:
and the nation, by their Incorporate
habits. And the question naturally
comes up for an answer who put thes'
men in Congress? The answer is
moral and religious men help pu
them there. Sometimes they hav,
been deceived in reference to tn
, habits of the men they have vote'
) for, but in too many instances it i
, not the fact of deception but the,
have done it deliberately with. the ap
palIing fact before them that the
, were voting for a tippler to max
: laws. Is it not time for temperate
E people to repent of such sins and as
God to have mercy upon them an
: forgive this, their political sin Hav
they not put the sword into the hand
d of these men to STAY on every han
our noble men, and we have said t
), them you are doing honorable bus
l.. ness and we will promote you to hor
or by our votes. Will such a Iecor
= read we'll on this scbject when IL
- books are opened; when not on
d ones prayers, but his votes will al
i pear on the record and the mOtiv,
= of ones acts will be disclosed befo
= Il just and holy God, who cannot
} bribed nor deceived by any on
,e When all classes shall stand in Il
i presence of assembled angels and mt
l. to answer for the deeds done in tt
. body who then shall stand ? 'He TIL
hath clean hands, and pure heal
III who hath not lifted up his soul un
ne vanity, nor sworn deceitfully. he sh;
y, receive the blessings of the LORD. >
Rp2, Peter Merrill