Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1903-10-26
A GOOD FIELD FOR MISSIONARY
WORK AT HOME.

Adelbert Martin, against whom an
indictment has been found by the
Washington County grand jury for an
assault upon aNorthfeld lady, is son
OF James Martin of Calais, who died
some years ago from injuries sus-
tanned by falling down stairs. Martin
had spent the trst OF the night in
drinking and carousing and in the
morning is said to have started up
stairs with the evident Intention of
treating his boys when he fell and
sustained the injuries which caused
his death. James Martin made an
honorable record as a soldier in the
civil war and had not his appetite for
liquor been too strong for him to
overcome he would have been a re-
spected citizen. However he man
aged in one way and another TO secure
the rum which made a beast of him
and the money which should have
been expended in educating and
clothing his childI en- went into the till
of the rumseller. Reared under such
conditions is it any wonder that Adel-
bert Martin has not proved desirable
citizen? This is only one of many
similar instances. To place the Grim
inal in prison protects society for the
time but does not prove a remedy for
the cause. In the opinion of the
writer the people of the state where
such men are allowed to make beasts
of themselves year after year are re-
sponsible to no small degree for the
resulting ills.-Monitor.
Every word the Monitor says is true,
and the writer of this could add as
much more along the same lines and
not go outside the family of James
Martin, in fact the first drunkard we
ever saw was an uncle of Adelbert
Martin. James Martin never desired
to quit drinking liquor; in fact he
loved liquor as a cat loves cream, and
n dozen courses of the Kelley cure
would not have effected his reforma-
ton, as the editor of the Monitor well
knows
But what we desire to call attention
to Is the pre6 chment OF our contem
porary found In its closing sentence.
"The people of the state where such
men are allowed TO make beasts of
themselves year after year are
responsible in no small degree for the
resulting ills."
Granted. Now, just wha t has the
Barton Monitor, during its third of a
century of existence, accomplished
towards bringing about such a condi-
ton as it would now have?
For over thirty years it has
preached prohibition, prohibition;
and this, too, even while its editor
owned stock in a local hotel in which
liquor was not only sold contrary to
Vermont laws but without the
hou In
been paid, and the liquors so sole
contrary to law were purchased con-
trary to law Of the town agent al
Barton, he we'll knowing such liquors
were to be sold in a place seven
eighths Of which was the property o.
men who never lost an opportunity
to preach-as the Monitor does nov
of the resulting ills of intemper'
ance.
Men sell liquors for a money profit
using such profits to pay not only
hotel rents but pew rents and preach
ere salaries; many even are pillars o
the church. Not always do they sci
il by the glass to such men as tn,
father OF Adelbert Martin but by thei
servants and agents in gallons an,
barrels. Yet even these men, a
times, are heard in our "evenipj
meetings and in their newspaper
telling of the evils of intemperanc
and it's resulting ills"
Ii will not be denied that ever sine
the Monitor was first published Their
has not been a time when liquo
could not be purchased in Barton
"lily white" though the entire count
of Caledonia may be, and it is a SAT
venture that during all these year
the editor of the Monitor has don
nothing more serious TO prevent sue
sales than to shout prohibition fror
the housetops and preach his littl
preachment.
Now, houest, have you? And il 81
when?-Bdrre Telegram.
In the above article the Telegram,
it's desire to deal blow at prohibition
has found it nect ssary to make a
attack upon the integrity of the bus
ness men of Barton and in so doin
has made statements which are n,
in accordance with the facts in Il
case. That the MONITOR advocate
the thorough enforcement of the prC
hibitory law while its publisher owne
stock in a local hotel is true, but n,
during that time or since then hi
liquor been sold there to the know
edge of the stockholders. Had ru
been sold there as is stated by Il
TELEGRAM il would have been so undo
stood in this village, while the fac
are that il has always been unde