The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1891-02-11
Temperance.
Note and Comment.

TIE Herald, organ of the Epworth |
league, declares that society to be a
league against the saloon,
THE last sentence of the last bacca-
laureate address given by Horace Mann |
few days before his DEATH 81 be- !
seech you to treasure up in your hearts
these my parting words: Be ashamed |
to die until you have won some victory
for humanity"
THE increase of temperance senti-
ment in the Baptist church in Wales is
indicated by a sentence from Rev. j.
Davies, who says: "Of 500 Baptist
ministers only 200 were total abstainers;
but out of ffty-three students in the
colleges, only one was not included in
the ranks of abstaiuers."
AT the Baptist state convention held
some time ago at Egin, ILL.,, the repre-
sentatives of 10000 Baptists resolved;
THAT we urge all persons connected
with our churches TO use their influence,
and vote definitely, for the suppression
of the liquor traffic, and lend no coun-
tenance to the pernicious license sys-
Lem"
AS long as the saloon and gin palaces
crowd the streets of our cities and
towns so long are poverty and misery
the inevitable condition of vast multi
tudes of our people. Universal peace,
happiness and prosperity are not posi-
BILE in country that knows such thing
as the saloon.-NeU York Mail and
| Express.
EMPEROR KwANGsU has issued
proclamation legalizing the growth of
opium in China. This will cause an
immense shrinkage in the revenue de-
rived by England from the sale of this
pernicious drug, and it is hoped her
rulers will then more clearly see, and
be more ready to remedy, the terrible
evils resulting from licensing the sale
of this insidious but powerful poison.
THE Young Mems Christian ASCOT
a ion has purchased the famous "can-
teen" which is situated so near the
parade ground of the state camp of in
structiOn at Peekskill, n. Y, as to vir-
tually be in the camp, and when the
National Guard this year goes into
camp the banner of this association
will be floating from these buildings
that were formerly so Objectionable,
and religious services, meetings of song
|
Of Intoxicating drinks and their de-
grading accompaniments.
THE Arab anti-rum congress in
Khartoum was not myth, as some eX-
changes have it, but an actual reality,
according to Bishop Tdylor'S Magazine,
and was held at the same time that the
anti-slavery congress met in Brussels.
While the Christians in Brussels were
resolving to search all vessels sus-
pected of having slaves on board, and
to confiscate the vessels and return the
slaves" the Arabs were adopting a
resolution "to surround the entire
coast of Africa with Gordon of armed
men and confiscate every European
vessel contai ing liquors and sell the
crews into slavery"
THE Lancet which is high medical
authority, publishes paper upon al
cohol in Typhoid" by DR.. James
Barr, in which he says: "Alcohol is
not food in the proper acceptation of
the word; it is sedative, or, to use the
commoner though less accurate desig-
nation, a stimulant." He disapproves
the use of alcohol in the treatment of
typhoid fever, for reasons which he
StdNco az anu SlSulCtn SSNtlt
cases treated by DR. Barr are cited in
which he administered no alcohol and
did not lose any of them. If, as DIR.
Barr af1irms, alcohol has no food value,
recourse to it in health is superfuous
and worse National Temperance Ad-
uOcdte.
To fight the public schools or seek to
divert the public fund to sectarian pur-
poses is not only to be at war with the
dearest and deepest sentiments of the
American heart; it is more and worse,
for however it may be cloaked or COW
cred up, it is blow at the very life of
the nation. 1t is treason. This broad
land welcomes alike the English, the
French, the Germans, the Swedes, the
Italians, and all the nationaliies and
religions of the old world, and as citi-
zens they have equal rights under its
laws but this is America and not Por-
tugal, or Spain, or Russia, and as such
it is neither Catholic nor Protestant,
Lutheran nor Methodist, but a great
free home for all, and the sooner it is
understood the better.-Reu. Dr..
Thomas, Chicago.