Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1892-07-11
ALCOHOLIC LIQUORS At THE
WORLDS FAIR.

anV previous time, JnaU Simply SHOWS
that we have large and constantly in
I'LL creasing percentage Of immigration
from other countries that is as yet
without knowledge of the scientific,
economic, and other well-reasoned
arguments against the use of poison
Il Gus drinks The focible classes in
4 America are gradually becoming clean
VI from this habit.
AS the years pass by, the number of
wine banquets given by railroad, pro-
Nj fessional and business men diminish
II es; the number of wine glasses on
hotel tables decreases. Lady Henry
II Somerset, who has been in many first
class hotels during the first six months
of her trip to America, says that no
feature of our national life has i'm
pressed her more than the absence of
wine from public tables. When the
Pan-American Commission was in
Washington, and Mrs. General Hen
derson, wife of the chairman of the
commission, entertained them in her
costly home, and whenshe was thank
ing no wine, she wrote that her ac-
ton was not singular, as wine at dim
ner tables in Washington was now Of
ten conspicuous by its absence. The
knights of Labor, by their pledge not
to use intoXicants at their entertain
ments, have strongly demonstrated
the improvement among those from
whom such a reform was not expect
ed, but who are doing more to honor
the temperance cause than is under
stood by those who are not students
of the temperance and the labor ques-
tions. Railroads and other corpora
lions have immensely increased the
power of the total abstinence propa-
ganda by their rules prohibiting beer
and other intoXicants to their en-
ployes. Scientific temperance instruc-
ton is now required by law in the
public school of every one of the for
ty-four states except nine, and in all
the territories and schools supported
in whole or in part by the United
States. Students of natural law are
ranging themselves in a wel1-nigh SOL
id column on the side of purity in
daily life, as prerequisite of the best
and happiest manhood. The youth
who does not use tobacco or alcoholic
drinks stands much better chance
of securing employment, and of ris-
ing in the world. This is universally
admitted, and carries with it a force
that is impelling the potent classes
in this nation along the path of total
abstinence beyond any direct efforts
made by reformers or philanthropists.
<'Be good to YOURSELF is motto that
is well-nigh compelling in this thrifty
Yankee nation. The great emphasis
now being placed upon physical de-
velopment and education, the prom
inence given to athletics for both sex
es, the universally admitted fact that
specialists in these exercises must let
intoxicants alone, all prove the pow
er of that enlightened public opinion
which has made America the foremost
total abstinence of the globe.
We have more responsibility than
in the centennial year, when liquors
were dispensed at the Worlds Fair,
and we believe it is our duty for these
reasons to dispense with them in 1893.
We believe it to be unscientific, map
propriate and un-American to put
upon the public tables of the EXPOSE
ton, beverages whose attractive in
gredient is alcohol, when we know
that alcohol is the most subtle of brain
poisons, and the chief deterioration of |
those thinking powers of the human
race which have evolved the EXPOSE |
ton Let US, then provide for youth
and maiden, boy and girl, tables where
they can sit down in security and
peace. For these reasons, the white
ribboners of every state and nation,
and the world at large have combined
in the request respectful, earnest and
prayer considered, that the board of
managers, and the ladies' board of
managers shall, by their votes, exclude
Intoxicating beverages from the
Worlds Fair.
The following communication was
sent from the Worlds officers last |
week:
To the Directors of the Worlds Column
bidR Exposition:
We respectfully and most earnestly
request that the sale of Intoxicating
liquors as drink may not be licensed l
or in any wise permitted on the Elk
position grounds. We urge this for
many reasons, founded in patriotism,
philanthropy and the Christian relig-
ion that has made this nation great. |
But as home makers and guardians of