Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1891-06-08
w. G. T. u. COLUMN.
MOTTO: "God and Home and Native Land"
LIQUOR DRINKING IN GREAT
BRITAIN

BRITAIN
"When l first went to England, y
says an old traveller, "the amount of
liquor that was drunk by all classes
simply amazed me. [ was invited to a
country house where all the old Gus
toms were maintained. At O'Clock
all the servants came n,every one got
down on their knees, and family pray
ers were said and a chapter from the
bible read. 1t was very patriarchaI,
and after it was over I expected to
get candle and go to bed, but what
was my surprise, after the servants
filed out, to hear the hostess ask all
the guests into an adjoining room,
where a heavy supper was spread. I
had a choice of a dozen different kinds
of liquor, and in letter home I de-
scribed this domestic function as fol-
lows: eve had family prayers and
then proceeded to get comfortably full
| of good hquOr.'' In Scotland the
amount of whiskey that is consumed
makes an Americans hair curl. Some
strict Presbyterian in Glasgow, to
whom I had letter of introduction,
called in turn to see me at the hotel.
After some talk | asked them if they
would take some refreshments Yes,
| they would have whiskey. So the
waiter brought some Scotch Whiskey
and big glasses that would hold half
pint. Each man poured out about
what would make an ordinary glass of
beer in this country, tossed in a little
water, and took it down without
wink
INFLUENCE.-Th future of the tenn
perance cause is very largely in the
hands Of young women. Let them
agree together to have nothing to do
with young men who smoke or chew,
or drink, or tipple, or play games
of hazard, and this unwritten social
law would be more effective than any
legal enactment. Many girls, other
wise courageous, are moral towards
in showing their disapproval of these
things. Others are simply thoughtless,
and thus encourage harmful habits
when least aware of it. For example
a girl of this class in selecting Christ
mas gift for friend of the other sex
will be as likely to choose a pretty CT
gar case or a smoking cap as anything
else. Such an act neutralize all the
remOnstranceS against smoking which
she may make at another time. An
other fatal mistake is in supposing
that she lessons her chance for mar
riage by being outspoken against what
she considers wrong. Under this de-
fusion she marries a man, hoping to
reform him. But young man who
will not give up a bad habit to win the
girl he loves will not give it up after
she has put herself into his keeping
for life. Where are the young women
who have the courage to start this So
cial prohibition party?
In October of 1890 occurred the for
tieth anniversary of the first National
Woman's Rights Convention. 1t was
held in Worcester, Mass, in 1850, in
accordance with a call signed by thir-
ty-three men and women from Mass
achusetts, eleven from Rhode Island,
seventeen from New York, eighteen
from Pennsylvania, nine from Ohio,
and one from Maryland. Of these,
by far the larger part are now dead.
But among the names of signers who
are no longer with us are those of
Ralph Waldo Emerson, VIM. Lloyd
Garrison and Mrs. Garrison, Wendell
Phillips and Mrs. Phillips, Charles F.
Hovey, Abby Kelly Foster, Adm Bal
lou, James and Lucretia Mott, Samuel
J. May, Gerritt Smith and Mrs Smith,
Paulina Wright Davis, and Oliver
Johnson.
From that beginning how the world
has changed for womenl Their work,
their wages, their opportunities for
education, their legal position, are al
most wholly changed for the better,
while in one State, Wyoming, women
are the political equals of men! And
all the world over the question is ask
ed who equal human rights should not
be conceded and secured to women.
The gain so made is worth all it has
cost to those who have coined their
lives into the service of the great prin-
ciple of equal rights.