Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1903-09-28
w. C. r. u. COLUMN.
THE NATIONAL wET.R0T.

Where:
An interesting occurrence is related
by n lady In New York, who tolls in-
cessantly for the very poor and gains
much Of their confidence.
A woman came TO her one day,
weeping piteously. She lived in the
BROOKLYN Borough, and every morn
ing az FIVE, went over TO the Manhat.
tan or New York side OF the river 70
scrub Office steps and floors. At
about the middle OF the forenoon, she
would come home, care for her three
children as best she could, and stay
tin four In the afternoon. Then she
would go back and do some more
scrubbing and return at perhaps about
ten O'Clock In the evening.
The night before this ou'burst OF
sorrow was the coolest OF the season
thus far. She had returned, SILVER
ing, TO the squalid house in which was
her miserable room-but found her
door locked, and her three children
crying In the hall.
Upon investigation she learned that
her drunken husband had turned the
children out, had locked the door
against them, and was sitting by the
fire in a maudlin slumber. She had to
take her children into an unfurnished
room on the floor above, and get
through the terrible night with them
as best she could.
II Mrs. Caroline Nation had hap
pened into the hall that evening, there
would have been short adjournment
to hardware store, the purchase Of
n Ratchet or an axe, and crashing of
timber that might have been heard
several doors away. The city papers
next morning, many Of which con-
tanned the advertisements of whiskey
dealers, would have condemned her,
and the police, perhaps, arrested her;
but who that Ihas properly consti-
tuted heart would really have blamed
the determined woman?
And who that has a properly con-
stituted brain and the energy 70 keep
1t in running order, but will wonder
how we are to build great republic
on such foundations as these? Ifmen
are to be deliberately drugged with
LIQUOR for the sake of what little
money can be filched away from them,
IL boys are to be taught the taste of
the stun by emissaries who meet them
on the street and coax them into
saloons, il women themselves, as is
often the case, are led to drink liquor
so as to drown their grief-what kind
Of country are we going to have in
n generation or two?
Railroad companies have learned
that drinking men cannot be depend
ed upon, and they will not have an
employe who 10 known not to be sober.
II a railroad cannot be conducted with
such men as it's active element, how
can a republic?
Every Where, not long since, read a
hypocritical, whining editorial, COM
planning that the time of some Of the
instructors in the public schools was
taken up in teaching children the bad
effects of intemperance. Under all
the circumstances, we say, how could
teachers time be better occupied?
There ought to be a new study
brought into every school course
(even II some of the many now used
had to be eliminated in order to make
place for it,: and that is the study of
TEMPERANCE. There should be a
temperance primer, temperance
physiology, temperance arithmetic,
and reading-books full of temperance
stories. One of these stories should
be the miserable event related at the
beginning of this article.
And all this Notwithstanding the
spectacular efforts Of a certain college
professor to discredit and ridioule the
attempt to teach the evils of alcohol
in our schools, and his not yet-con-
vincing efforts to prove alcohol food
rather than ga poison. Even if it
should be proven that the stuff had
some constructive function in the
bodily economy, when taken in suffi
GENTLY small quantities, the horrors
of the drink evil are not thereby in
the least diminished, and we are in no
way relieved from the duty of bring
ing up our children in a tho rough
knowledge of "fire- water" aud its
effects.
There are good many people who
think this country is worth saving:
aud they rely for that salvation upor
different things One says "tht
tariff; one "tbe abolition of the
tariff; one ''thez demoIishiug o.
trusts; one "a powerful navy"; etc
etc. But above any and all of these