St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1885-02-26

/ ity 1t has reached out after and grad
iualIv brought uneer its control, we
are amazed at the vastness OF the work
/ it has undertaken and the greatness o.
whnr4t has accomplished in so short 3
! time. lis motheriy armS have stretch
ed themselves from the British prov
inces to the great gulf, aud from the
Atlantic to the Pacific, and have
brought within their embrace ever,
/ state and territory in oar great country
and it's many minds and hands have
I laid hold of and systematized into
working order numerous philanthrOpiei
and charities calculated to dispel ig
Dorance and vice, to uplift, instruct
and bless, to help forward the great
era of temperance and morality. II
has been constantly active in creating
public sentiment among all ages and
classes against the sale and use of in
tOIicants instant IN season and out OF
season in devising methods to prevent
innocent children and unwary youth
from becoming ruined by the tenpta-
ti0ns which beset them on every side
it has everywhere given aid and sym
pathY to the drunkard's family, and
plead with him to leave his evil ways
and walk in the path of sobriety and
virtue. Nor is this all it has not for
gotten the liquor seller, but from the
beginning of its work has striven faith
fully to induce him to desist from his
debasing business by showing him the
dishonorablcness of his course aud the
ruin to youth, manhood, and woman
hood, that lies everywhere IN its track.
But while ii believes thus earnestly
in moral suasiOn and adopts it as the
great enlightening aud drawing force
of it's work, it believes as earnestly in
legal suasion as the great power by
which it is to gather and hold the fruits
of its laborS, as the great power by
which the temptations and evils arts
ing from tho liquor traffic shall be re-
moved from tue path of the generation
just coming upon the stage of action
and from the paths of the generations
yet unborn. 1t believes thoroughly in
prohibition for town, county, state and
nation.
The common law says no one may
erect OF maintain nuisance. Who
shall dare say the liqusr traffic is not
nuisance a great evil? Who
shall contradict the fact brought to
light through statistics that three
fOurths and in some places nine -tenths
of the poverty, misery, and crime of
our land is attributable directly or IN
directly to the liquor traffic 1t may
truly be said of it as it was said in by
gone days of slavery: at is the sum
of all villainies." Then why should
not the law take hold of it thoroughly,
vigorously and without apology
The Woman's Christian Temperance
Union stands for the destruction of
this awful traffic and though misjudged
misrepresented aud even villitied dur
ing and since the recent campaign,
nothing daunted, having the courage
of its convictions with God and human
ity, on its side it will continue to Wig
Orously prosecute its work bringing
both moral and legal suasiOn and every
righteous help to its aid, knowing that
as God is Got and right is right, the
victory must sooner or later come. 1t
works not only for the present but for
the future as we'll. 1t is gathering up
its forces in every part of our land for
the battle OF the New Year. The West
is astir with its activities the South
and the East are falling into line.
Aud when we consider them any thOus-
ands of women and meH outside of
this organization working earnestly
and cOnscientiously for temperance
and prohibition, truly may the n. Y.
Tribune say: "Fhere is no question
to day of such tremendous, far reach
ing impor lance as that of intemper-
ance. In its effects and complications
ment can set aside this subject. Despot-
c Russia and Republican America
must both meet it. For the evil is too
enormous and atrOCiOus to be hid, too
destructive and cyclonic to be regu-
lated. too insOlvent to be endured, too
cruel not to excite Indignation. The
q 4 Al -
til our statesmen shall dare to assail in
our halls at Washington any evil oil
monstrous wrong that is destructive to
national welfare" And these septi-
meuts are voiced by other leading pa
Pers of the country, 10y not few Oi
our best statesmen, 10y our greatest
moralists and divines.
In view of the increasing growth %
prohibition sentiment, liquor dealer;
may well take alarm, and call upon
/ their associates through the Champion
their organ in the great North west K
/ rally, ia these stirring words: 9Th,
! prOhibitinnist have shown at this elec
! tion that they are enlisted for the wa
1 to the bitter end. They propose t,
crush out the liquor traffic and they
/ have good reason for heing sanguine o
I success. Look at their sweeping vie
tories in Kansas aud Iowa, at thei
progress in Missouri, Georgia, Ten
nessee. Kentucky. and Illinois, wher'
local option and high license pre-
vail and at their steadily growin;
strength in dozen other States, sucI