Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1896-07-20
w. c. T. u. COLUMN.
Motto: ssGod and Home and Native Land
An ELOQUENT CATHOLIC.

short articles, but when the opportu-
nifty is offered to print for wider use
fulness such an address as that deliv-
cred recently in Pennsylvania by Mrs.
Leonora M. Barry Lake, one of the
vice presidents of the Catholic Total
Abstinence Union, and one of the
most eloquent of women, we are GLAD
to break rule for the benefit of our
readers.
Mrs. Lake, better known to working
people as Leonora M. Barry, was one
of the ablest leaders of the Knights
of Labor in the good Powderly days.
In all her address she spoke out
strongly against labor's greatest foe,
the liquor traffic. 1t is interesting to
note that she was introduced to the
audience before which she delivered
the following address by that other
Prohibition Knight of Labor, Terence
V. Powderly.
That able Catholic Prohibition pa
per, the Inder, publishes the address
in full. Mrs. Barry Lake said
81 hope you have not come here to-
night prepared to hear anything won
derful or new, Or to listen to some
thing sensational, something that
wonld arouse your feelings or harrow
them on this great question of total
abstinence. I think you do not. For
bring you no new message when
tell you of the truths of total absti-
hence, truths as old as that grand
truth brought to us nearly 1900 years
ago truth, like the truths of total
abstinence, accepted by the few and
rejected by the many. 1t is with the
hope of bringing to you message of
cheer and encouragement, of love and
tenderness, that I come to you to-
night, not with hate or malice toward
any one, but with charity toward all.
only ask to appeal to your con-
science, to your love of God and of
the great truths He has taught, and
to your love of country, the grandest
| the sun ever shone on, and if / sue
ceed in transmitting to you the strong
desire in my heart for the spread of
total abstinence my coming here to-
night will not have been in vain.
1--WE are spoken of by the peoples
of the earth as Yankees, and it is gen.
orally conceded that the Yankee is
wise and shrewd man, and that he in
vests only when he is sure of reaping
rich harvest. Let's see if we are
worthy of this concession that is made
to us by the peoples abroad. There
are in this country 100000 licensed
saloons-and there are many that are
not registered or Hcensed-and into
these saloons are pouring each year
81, zoo, 900, 900. We put this vast sum
into the liquor traffic, and what do we
get in return? All around about US we
see the poor and the needy, the help
less and the manned; we see the want
of institutions for the cultivation of
reason, necessities demanding our fl
nancial support, and yet in the face
of all that we pour this 81, 200, 900, 900
into the saloons that bring us what?
Go to the State prisons of the land, to
your city and county jails and penal
institutions, to your insane asylums,
/ to your warehouses, to your reform
atories, houses of refuge and all such
places where the brand of crime has
left it's stamp upon the face of one of
Gods creatures, and then you can
answer me, what do we get for our
large outlay? Go to your criminal and
find there being in whom all vestige
of manhood has been destroyed; go
to the homes that have been ruined in
the blackened ashes of debauchery
and designations; behold the woman
who has stepped down from that high
pedestal on which our Creator has
placed her, then you will see what re-
turn you get. See the lost childhood
of the land. Every child has God
given right to be we'll born, well rear
ed and we'll educated. The purpose
of its creation is to know, honor and
serve God, SO that it may be prepared
to meet Him hereafter. Of these
privileges these children are depriv-
ed by the viciousness and weakness
of those who are responsible for their
existence. Search the record of crime,
shame and misfortune, and there you
will find the dividends you receive as
a reward for your investments in the
liquor traffic.
ssWhy should we continue indiffer-
ent to this great evil, hydra headed
monster that has coiled itself around
the vitals of the nation? Can we any
longer neglect the opportunities af-
forded us to make some sacrifice in
order to prepare ourselves to do away
with this great wrong? Why will we