Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1901-11-18
TEMPERANCE
An Enthusiastic Meeting
Last Night
volNEY C. CUSHING
Addressed A Large Audience
At Opera House Last Night

The opera house was we'll filled last
evening on the occasion Of the union
mass temperance meeting held under
the auspices of the Prohibition Alli-
ance. The speaker of the evening
was Volney B. Cushing of Bangor,
Me-, who delivered an ordinary tenn
perance address in which he advanced
no new arguments upon the subject,
| but claimed that total abstinence and
prohibition were on the gain every
where. His subject was the "Des-
ecration of the Temple" " The Uni
versalist, Methodist, Baptist and Con-
gregational churches united in this
meeting. The usual services were
held at the Church Of the Good Shep-
herd and the Presbyterian church.
Rev. a. e. Atwater presided at the
temperance meeting. Rev. Et1ie X.
M. Jones read the Scriptures and Rev.
F. A. Poole offered prayer.
MIR. Gushing was introduced by Mr..
Atwater who made some general re-
marks upon the subject. In his
speech Mr. Gushing said:
Alcoholic drinks are the Gentiles
that are desecrating the temple Of the
human soul. They are unnecessary
and artificial. He likened alcohol to
dynamite saying In it's proper place it
was all right. Good citizenship de-
mands t.,al the drink habit shall
cease. @A
The National Dispensatory says that
alcohol IS poisonous to every form of
animal life and affects the brain par
ticularly in human beings so that it is
called a brain paralizer. The speaker
aid that alcohol was not necessarily
as fatal poison at the start as strych-
inia but it was as fatal ia the eud. Be-
cause Of it's effect upon the nerves only
a very small portion can be taken with
out danger Of great injury.
The man who drinks, declared The
speaker, clogs the mechanism Of his
brain with a substance far more dele
tnri0us than dust and dirt are to the
inc mechanism of a watch. He fur
thar declared that the commandment,
| Thou shalt not drink intoxicating
liquor" was the strongest yet made.
iCudl dDoUliISIlNC w do uLC oLiy Z. Wv
| rule of life Prohibition is tn olly
true policy for the community :aid
he, Bring your penalties ~ ho&r upon
the man who sells the str1ra irnl
rather than upon the man woo sc
it.
People do not realize that ;>rotit'-
| tiOn is the true policy aud = is QUfS
toned even in Vermont an} We .
In telling about how Maine al p IS
pered under prohibition he SD nat
there were no suggestive signs and
that over third Of the people had
money in the savings banks. lie ad-
mtted, however, that there were
open bars in Bangor and that liquor
was sold openly there, but said that
the law was not enforced and that
public sentlment for it was not very
strong.
We want righteo GUS legislation and
that which is most practical in its re-
suits. Ali legislation, The speaker
admitted, depends upon the man and
the enforcement Of it
He declared that the w.r against
the drink habit was IN the nature OF
conflict between the old and
new civilizations. In conclusion
he told of the rapid growth OF
sentiment for Oa( abstinence
and prohibition At The conclusion
Of his remar.s he asked for a
liberal contribution to'help the good
work along.
After singing a hymn the henedic-
tion ~as prot olnced 10y t1e Rev. Ellie
| X. NJ Jones
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