Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1902-11-20
Mrs. Howe on Temperance.

Mrs. Callie II. Howe, state president OF
the Missouri Va c. t. T., and speaker
who made a very favorable impression at
the public hearing before the Legislative
Temperance committee in Montpelier a
short time ago, addressed falr-sized aud
fence at the Baptist church Tuesday even
ing. She has been working in Vermont
since September under the auspices Of the
state organization of w. c. T. u. and was
sent here by that body. Mrs. S. S. Clark
president of the local union, presided over
the meeting, and Rev. Brown f. Smith
read the Scripture lesson and offered
prayer.
Mrs. Howe is a fluent talker with vo-
cabulary that would seem to embrace the
major part of the unabridged dictionary
and in her rapid utterance never hesitates
for lack Of the right phraseology to ex-
press her meaning. She speaks at the rate
this is not a phenomenal feat for one OF
her sex, the fact that her effort is not a
mere verbal spasm but clean-cut. telling
address is perhaps little out of the ordi-
nary.
She took her text from Lamentations
lis it nothing to you, all yewho pass by!''-
and proceeded to show that the conditions
which moved the prophet in those early
days TO that exclamation are rife in the
morning of the goth century in our own
country. Vice and crime, she asserted, are
on the increase in these United States OF
ours, vice being in excess of the popula-
ton. which denotes something radically
wrong in the country. This is so. not be-
cause It is Gods will, but because the ex-
ecutors Of Gods will are not doing their
duty. No band of angels will be sent
from Heaven to enforce righteous laws or
purify the streets of our cities: for we our
selves, men and women, are the instru-
ments created to carry out Gods will and
reflect His love and light
In Vermont today righteous law that
has been IN operation for 80 years Is ON
trial for its life, and its bitterest enemies
cannot bring single, solitary charge
against II Of having debauched, degraded
or despoiled any grown person, or worked
to the injury of any little child. What
eVil hath It done None. When Christ
stood before PLATE. who could find no
cause of accusation against Him, the rab-
4 bic cried, Cruelty Him, Cruelty Him.
/ give us Barabbas, Barab bias. the murder
/ er. So now the rabble cries against this
j Just law, Cruelty it, cruelty il, give us
the murderous high license; let its blood
DC on our heads and on the heads of our
children Little does the rabble in Ver
mont dream what 1t demands.
i That man sows that shall he also
reap. Whence came this rabble in YER
mont2 Whence came this license senti-
I ment among the young men, and Young
women, too, born and bred under prohi-
/ bltion Who sowed this seed in an
/ classes from the lowest to the highest ;
/ Because of negligence, because fathers.
and mothers even, were busted with every
little triting thing under the sun but
/ lnstlling temperance principles in the
I hearts OF their children, the field lay
/ waste until the enemy came and sowed the
tares OF intemperance and license senti-
ment.
To repeal the prohibitory law because az
lts violations IS the height Of absurditv
+ There never was law passed that WASN'T
violated. The law against stealing is vio-
lated every hour in the day, vet nobody
wants II repealed. More is REQUIRED ~
the prohibitory law than OF any other
statute, which is neither Just nor rigbt
Ihat with license there will be no unlsw-
ful drinking is not a strong argument
either. There is no particular ADVANTAGE
IN losing ones soul in a legalized saloon
/ The loss Is just as great as though II han
Continued on It'll psge.)