Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1900-12-06

ID. e., in 1895. Since that time the League
has developed very repidly throughout
the country and there are now state or.
CARNATIONS in 81 states OF the union with
200 and more persons giving their entire
time to the league work, among them so
ordained ministers, representing 10 diff
ferent denominations. ~
! come to you tonight with a question
that might be asked by every parent and
indeed by every lover of humanity, a
question asked by an aged king who had
been driven from his throne by a rebel
lious son. When the messenger brought
news from the battle the first question
was, "ls the young man Absalom safe ?"
IL the young man in Vermont today is
not safe, who's to blame? / answer in
the first placs-parents are to blame. Mr..
Morrow cited family in his old home in
Illinois where four boys became constant
users OF intoxicating liquors, one OF them
f1lling an early grave, second one be.
coming a drunkard OF the basest type,
beating his wife when coming home in
toxicated; and emphasized the fact that
the father was to blame, for those boys
were brought up in the home over a whis-
key jug in the cellar.
Young ladies are to blame, said the
speaker, who accept the company and at
teDtions OF young men who drink. Dr.
yorce and q wrecked life often follow.
Young women can help on the reform
and insure their own safety by insisting
upon abstinence in young men. A Brook
Ign friend kept track OF wife murders in
this country for two years and found B.
OO4 wives were murdered by drunken
husbands.
The moderate drInker is to blame, for
his pernicious example is always on the
wrong side. Other classes we're also
named who are to blame.
But the yoke of responsibility rests
upon the whole community. When there
are measures which you can adopt to
improve the moral conditions surround
ing locality, and you are too selfish of
your time and money to take part In the
enterprise, you are to blame.
The speaker then briefly narrated the
Anti-Saloon League system OF organize
tion by which he showed radical changes
in many localities, Jaws better enforced
and the saloon practically banished. The
Anti-Saloon League with its constituency,
omnipartisan and INSTRUMENTATION,
is seeking to carry out three lines of work,
all three OF which are necessary to a WE'LL
balanced organization.
The agitation department Is the leading
department Of the Leagues work and
some $40 agitation meetings have been
held in the past year, with some 10 OF Is
different speakers; more tnan a quarter of
a million copies of leaflets have been
PNDAiShoN hoA iiSO dioltibhhiOh many
stereopticon addresses have been given. /
Agitation creates public sentiment The I
speaker illustrated very sptly the result
OF agitation as seen in the old dasher
churn in separating the fatty particles /
from the other contents OF the churn, and l
expressed the belief that the agitation and |
of the question OF intern
perance would bring ABOUT separation of
he good from the bad and final massing
OF all the forces together for the over /
throw OF the liquor traffic
Mr.. Morrow referred to the victory for
prohibition in the late legislative fight
and claimed no little credit for the efforts
Of the League 10 the defeat OF the license