Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1898-11-28

platforms and II our newspapers, per
suade the people to stop taking alcoholic
stimulant unless prescribed by physi
clans. and then persuade physicians not
to prescribe it II in all tbs dominions
of therapeutics there may be found
some other remedy.
Seven or eight years ago on the ami
yersary platform of the National Tenn
perance society in New York deplored
the fact that we had left politics to do
that which moral suasion only could do
and said on that occasion, IF some poor
drunkard wandering along this street
tonight should see the lights kindled by
this brilliant assemblage and should
come in, and, finding the character of
the meeting, should ask for a temper
ance pledge, that he might sign it and
begin new career, I do not believe
there is in all this house a temperance
pledge, and you would have to take out
a torn letter envelope Or loose scrap of
paper for the inebriate's signature - I
found out afterward that there was one
such temperance pledge in the audience,
but only one that I could hear Of. Do
not leave to politics that which can be
done now in 10, 900 reformatory meet
ings all over the country. The two great
political parties, Republican and Demo
cratic, will put prohibitory plank in
the platform the same day that satan
joins the church and turns perdition in
to a camp meeting. Both parties want
the votes Of the traffickers in LIQUID
death, and if you wait for the ballot
box to do the work, first you will have
local option, and then you will have
high license, and then a first rate law
passed, 20 be revoked by the next legis-
lature
Oh, save the young man of today and
greet the coming century with a tidal
wave of national redemption Do not
put upon the cradle of the twentieth
century mountain of demijohns and
beer barrels and rum jugs, and put to
it's infant lips wretchedness, disease
murder and abandonment in solution.
Aye, reform that army of inebriates
"Ah," you say, sit cannot be done p'
That shows that you will be of no use
in the work. so We Of little faith -
Away back in early times President
Davies of Princeton college one day
found man ia utter despair because Of
the thrall of strong drink. The presi-
dent said to him: 'tSir. be Of good
cheer. You can be saved. Sign the
pledge" "Ah," said the despairing
victim, 81 have often signed the pledge,
but I have always broken my pledged"
"But, said the president, 81 will be
your strength to keep the pledge. / will
be your friend, and with loving arm
around you will hold you up. When
your appetite burns, and you feel that
you must crafty it, come to my house,
sit down with me in the study or with
the family in the parlor, and I will be
shield to you. All that I can do for you
with my books my sympathy, my expe-
rience, my society, my love, my money,
I will do. You shall forget your appe-
tite and master it, A look of hope
glowed on the poor mans face, and he
replied, "Sir, will you do all that?''
Surely I will" "Then I will over
come" He signed the pledge and kept
it. That plan Of President Davies which
saved one man. tried on a large scale,
will save million mon.
The Conquest of Self.
Alexander the Great made an imperial
banquet at Babylon, and, though he
had been drinking the health of guests
all one night and all next day, the Sec
ond night he had 20 guests, and he
drank the health OF each separately
Then calling for the cup of Hercules
the giant, Q monster cup, he filled and
drained it twice to show his endurance;
but, as he finished the last draft from
the cup Of Hercules the giant. he drop
ped in q fit, from which he never recov-
cred. Alexander, who had conquered
Sardis and conquered Halicarnassus and
Asia and conquered the world
could not conquer himself, and there is
a threatening peril that this good land
of ours, having conquered all with
whom it has ever gone into battle, may
yet be overthrown by the cup of the
giant evil of the land-that Hercules of
infamy, strong drink. Do not let the
staggering and bloated and embruted
host of drunkards go into the next GEN.
fury looking for insane asylums and
and delirium tremens and
dishonored graves.
Another thing we must get fixed is a
national law concerning divorce. Will
liam E. Gladstone asked me while
in his grounds at Hawarden,
Do you not think that your country is
in peril from wrong notions of divorce?''
And before l had time to answer he
said, ''The only good law Of divorce that
you have in America is the law in
South Carolina. The fact is that in
stead of state laws on this subject we
need national law passed by the senate
OF the United States and the house of
and plainly interpreted
by the supreme court of the country.
There are thousands of married peo-
pie who are unhappy, and they ought
never to have been welded. They were