Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1901-04-22
w. G. T. u. COLUMN.
RESULTS OF TEMPERANCE TEACHING.

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| Only at long intervals has history
| given US instances where single deed
of an Individual has aroused a people
as has the wrecking of a saloon by
Mrs. Nation. To day in Kansas mass
meetings are being held, joints driven
| out, druggists permits handed in, and
| steps taken to secure efficient officers
all over the state.
Seeing these results, the cry goes
up from superficial observers: "Chis
| is the only way to do temperance
work; one Ratchet is worth more than
all the temperance resolutions ever
suasion and education" AT this crisis
in Kansas this was true. Resolutions
and petitions from all the churches
in the state would not have made the
jointist turn so pale or cart out his
goods so quickly as did this one wo-
man with her Ratchet.
But let US find the cause of this con-
sternation. A few years ago it would
not have been possible to bring such
result by such means. AS for years
en- the massive glacier until the
chance dropping of stone starts it
on it's path to the sea, SO for the last
quarter Of a century, educational
forces, mighty though quiet have been
undermining this burden on our CIV
ilization until the blow of Ratchet
has power to start it on it's pathway
to destruction.
When the time was ripe, God made
woman brave enough to strike
this blow, and when the blow was
struck He made the wrath of men to
praise Him. The whisky newspapers
of Wichita fought their own friends
when they heralded this deed forth to
the world. Mrs. Nation says, "I
smashed in Wichita, but the news
papers are smashing all over the
world" Criticism, whether from
friends or foes, is increasing the agita
ton and quickening the public con-
science.
This is not the first aggressive work
that has been done. Many brave and
noble deeds have seemed to be lost.
But it is only seeming. John Huss of
Bohemia, Savonarola of Italy, and Wy
elf of England offered up their lives in
unavailing protest against PERM
cious theological despotism, but Luth-
er focused the forces they had set in
motion, and conquered gloriously.
So temperance agitation and crusades,
persuasion, prayer and law, may be
trampled under the brewers feet and
Kissed by corrupt politicians, yet
some brave soul by deed of daring,
concentrates the struggle and tears
and prayers into one strong blow
the beginning of the end.
''He that goeth forth and weepeth. !
come again with rejoicing, bringing
his sheaves with him. The true.
brave white ribboners of Kansas have |
worked long, weary years and shed |
bitter tears to see officers drag their
standard in the dust, and jointists |
STAIN IL Will DlOOU ana rum. But.
women, your work is not in vain.
Whence comes this mighty army of |
youth, rising up now to fight, if need
be, to the death? They are the
boys and girls trained by your tenn
perance teaching in the public schools,
nurtured at your firesides to hate the
great red dragon of intemperance.
In the rising tide of temperance en-
while we give all honor to
the one who struck fire from the flint,
let US not forget the work of the pa
tent, faithful women who have labor
ed often amid discouragement, many
times facing seorn and sneers, to
gather fuel for the blaze that is driv-
ing darkness from our land. Verify,
he that soweth and he that reapeth
shall rejoice together; it is God that
giveth the increase.
Those famous little pills, DeWitt's Little
Early Ri sers, will remove all impurities from
your system, cleanse your bowels, make them
regular. II Pierce, French, Fl S Web
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