The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1891-04-22
Temperance.
Fact and Comment.

THE Scottish Union of the British
Women Temperance Association has
forty four societies and membership
of about 1000.
OUR nations blood is flowing in the
river of destruction through the wound
cut in its side by rum.--Scrdnton
Diocesan Inder.
AN honorary member of the colored
Woman's Christian Temperance Union
in Greensburg, KY, reports the closing
of the saloons throughout the county,
attributing this happy result mainly to
the two unions, white and colored.
WOMEN can sweep intemperance
from the land if they will put the quar-
antine of prohibition over their own
doors. Clear away the cider cask and
wine bottle, and send the children out
to the world with untainted appetites.
you must admit" said vagabond
to temperance lecturer, "you must
admit that alcohol is good for one thing,
at least, and that is to clean silver"
Yes" retorted the lecturer, d" and it
is evident that alcohol has cleaned
all the silver out of your pockets. "-EG.
A BUFFALO, N. Y, saloonist, in of
fering his business for sale for thou
sand dollars, states, as an inducement
to the purchaser, that FIVE thousand la
borers pass that way daily. Does not
government owe protection to these
men rather than to the place where
druukards are manufactured?-U Union
Signal.
AT Cairo, Egypt, January 27, Mrs.
Mary Clement Leavitt organized
Woman's Christian Temperance Union
of seven members, all American mis-
sionaries. The Woman's Presbyterian
Mission had previously required total
abstinence of all church members.
More is expected of church members
in Egypt than in America.
A SALOON in Cumberland Gap, East
Tennessee, has the following inscrip-
ton: "Sunny Side Saloon-Polytix
and other trix diskused at all ours"
AS the law requires a keeper of such
place to be of ga good moral charac-
ter" but says nothing of the degree of
education to which he shall attain, this
criticism may be considered out of
place. Union Signal.
"THE chief reason for my becoming
an abstainer," says Archdeacon Farrar,
"was because | saw on all sides the
waste, the ruin, the misery, the degrade
| ton, the disease, the wretchedness of
homes, the destruction of human bodies,
the human faculties and human souls
the national disgrace and calamity, the
cruel determination or debasement of
the weaker races of mankind in our
colonies and dependencies, which are
caused by drink"
MORE and more is the weight of
scientific testimony growing against the
use of alcohol as a medicine. AT the
late annual conference of the British
Temperance League, the veteran medi-
cal temperance pioneer of Great Brit
ain, Dr. F. r. Lees, read paper upon
" Science and Alcohol" in which he
said " General experience, which is
the foundation of social science, con-
tinues to confirm the great truths OF
our movement. Life is heightened,
disease is lessened, and health is i'm
proved by the practice of abstinence,
and on the other hand superstitions
about drink and its value are dying
out, and light is at last finding its way
into high and fashionable quarters
Whether in recreations or in ordinary
work, whether in cold or warm eli
mates, whether in battle or in peace
whether on sea or land, the folly Of
drinking alcohol, and the advantages
to mind and body of abstinence, are be
coming acknowledged more widely"