Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1900-09-24
PROHIBITIONS OR HIGH LICENSE.

Barton Landing. Text, Romans, 15:
eve that are strong should bear the
infirmities of the weak and not to
please ourselves"
Friends, suppose it is impossible to
say anything new on this question,
but at the urgent invitation of the
Anti-Salocn League 1 have collected
from various sources this old material
that present to you this morning in
new garb.
Our war with Spain was entered
into on this principle stated in my
text. War by the strong to spoil the
weak is no longer considered heroic.
War is justifiable only to compel peace
for the sake of all nations. The her
oism that wins highest honor is that
of the captain who will not permit his
men to cheer because their foes are
dying. Christianity has taught men
this new ideal, that power to govern
ia responsibility more than privi-
lege, that the fulfilment of duty to the
weak is the measure of honor to the
strong. Christianity is the religion of
the white races. There is only one
Christian king in the world to-day
who is not white. There are only
three Mussulmans who reign and one
Buddhist sovereign, and these by
sufferance of Christian governments.
Among the three white races which
represent the three leading forms of
Christianity the Anglo-Saxon is SUI
preme. AS by the wonderful inven-
tions of this age distance is being
annihilated and peoples of all climes
are brought to touch one another, the
Anglo Saxon must govern the dark
races or be overwhelmed in the tur-
MOL of ignorant and selfish nations
which cannot govern themselves.
The peace of the world requires that
the most advanced nations rule it.
AS truly as this nation was called to
deliver Cuba from Weyler, Luzon from
Aguinaldo and China from the folly of
the Chinese, so truly are the people
of Vermont called to Withstand the
encroachments of power more
tyrannical than Weyler, more treach-
erous than Aguinaldo and more muir
derous than the Chinese Boxers. The
rum element in this state is bound to
foist high license on us. To-day we
are in the vanguard of the worlds
advancement. But let US not forget
that the great nations of antiquity
died drunk. BelshaZzar and Alexan-
der are notable examples of the truth
here enunciated, and page after page
of history confirms its truth. If this
nation would continue to be strong it
must do it's duty. If Vermont shall
continue to bear the honorable cogno-
men "the state in which they raise
men" she must do her duty. DIR.
Barker, now of Boston formerly of
Ohio, said in part at Montpelier re-
Gently, ''Vermont is the banner state
in temperance work. She has the
best temperance laws in the United
States, and it is her duty and high
privilege to enforce these laws as far
as possible and teach the United
States what can be done in temper
ance legislation. Ohio is ten years
behind Vermont, improving as fast as
she is, and we are looking to Vermont
as to an ideal'' 1t is no disgrace for
our state to be fifty years ahead of
the times. 1t would be a disgrace
for us to abandon our ideal and take
the moral position of the average state
of the United States. We cannot do
the business of some states, but the
United States is looking to New Eng
land, and to Vermont as the quiptes-
sence of New Englandism, for its
moral ideas.
The legalized liquor traffic in this
country sends thousands of men and
women annually to drunkards' graves
and drunkard's hell. In spite of all |
political, reformatory and Christian |
measures, extending over fifty years,
1t has steadily increased in volume,
and to-day it's victims increase at
greater percentage is said-than
our nations population. Of spirits, |
wine and beer in 1895 our people |
poured down their threats about Is |
gallons per capita. The direct cost of |
our nations liquor bill in 1890 was
1902, 645, 1857; net governmentrevenu
from liquor 49,, 1858, 1874, making the
net direct cost of liquor traffic $780,
3S1 1893. Total indirect cost of traffic,
S453, O76, 22O; making the total cost of
liquor traffic as ascertained 81 ,218, 1885,,
113. In the Is gallons per capita and
the cost named no account is taken of
fictitious liquors. 1t is estimated by