Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1898-11-28

a. VIZ NoucAerb IN liquid
DEATH aud II you wait for the ballot
oox to do the work, first you will have
local option, and then you will have
nigh license, and then first rate law
passed, to be revoked BY the next leqis.
lature. '''''
on' save the young man Of today and
greet the coming century with q tidal
wave CT national redemption! Do not
put upon the cradle Of the twentieth
century mountsin Of demi3ohns and
beer barrels and rum jugs, and put to
Its infant lips wretchedness. disease.
murder and abandonment IN solution
Aye reform that army Of inebriates.
"Ah," you say, lit cannot DO doner
mat shows that you will be OF no use
IN the work. 20 ye Of little faithl"
Away back in early times President
Davies OF Princeton college one day
round man in utter despair because Of
the thrall OF strong drink. The presi.
dent said to him: "Sir, be of good
cheer. You can be saved. Sign the
pledge" "Ah," said the despairing
victim, II have often signed the pledge.
but l have always broken my pledgep'
But" said the president, II will be
your strength to keep the pledge. will
be your friend, and with a loving arm
around you will hold You up. When
your appetite burns, and you feel that
you must crafty it, come to nv house.
sit down with me in the study or with
the family in the parlor, and I will be
shield to you. All that can do for Won
with my books, my sympathy, my expe-
rience, my society, my love- my money,
will do, You shall forget yonr appe-
tite and master it'' A look Of hone
glowed Oh the poor mans face, and he
replied, "Sir, will you do all that?"
"surely WILL" "Then 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 men.
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 40 guests, and be
drank the health Of each separately.
Then calling for the cup of Hercules
the giant, monster cup, be filled and
drained it twice to show his endurance;
but as he finished the last draft from
the cup of Hercules the giant, be drop.
ped in fit, from which he never recov-
cred. Alexander, who had conquered
Sardis and conquered Halicarpassus and
conquered Asia and conquered the world,
could not conquer himself, and there is
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 tho
staggering and bloated and embruted
host Of drunkards 90 into the next CEN
fury looking for insane asylums and
almshouses 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
walking in his grounds at Hawaldcn,
"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
reed nst:.aasqsl. law passed hy. he senate
CT the United States and the mouse VI
representatives aud plainly interpreted
by the supre ME court Of the country.
There are thousands of II arried PEG.
pie who are unhappy, and they ought
never to hava been welded. They were
deceived or they were reckless or they
were fools or they were caught by dim
pie or hung by a curl or married in joke
or expected fortune and it did not
come or good habits turned to brutality,
and hence the domestic wreck. But
make divorce less easy and you make
the human race more cautious about en-
tering upon lifetime alliance. Let peo
pie understand that marriage is not an
leave almost anywhere, but through
train, and then they will not step on
the train unless they expect to 60 clear
through to the last depot. One brave
man this coming winter, rising amid
the white marble Of yonder Capitol hill,
could offer a resolution upon the subject
of divorce that would keep ont Of the
next century much of the free lovism
and dissoluteness which have cursed
this century.
The Jury of Nations.
Another thing that we need to get
fixed up before the clock shall strike 10
on that night Of centennial transition
is the expulsion of war by the power Of
arbitration. Within the next three
years we ought to have, and I hope will
have, what might be called "a jury Of
nations" which shall render verdict
on all controvsrted international ques-
tions. All civilized nations are ready
for it-Great Britain with standing
army of 100000 men, France with a
standing army OF $4,000 men, Ger
many with banding army Of 600, 900
men, Russia with standing army OF
900, 900 men. Europe with standing
armies of about $500, 900 men, the
United States proposing standing
army Of 100, 900 menl What glorious
idea, that OF disarmament! What an
emancipation of nations and centuries
The car of Russia last summer proposed
it in world resounding manifesto. Dis.
armament What an inspiring and
heaven descended thought In some
quarters the czar's manifesto was treat
ed with derisicn, and we were told that