The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1906-01-13
The nti.Treating League.

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The Anti-Treating League.
This is the name Of a new organiza-
ton whose object is ito promote the
cause Of temperance among all men by
retaining from INDUCING in the per-
Itieious custom of treating any friend or
friends to any intoxicating liquors. and
to refrain from accepting ali so.called
| courtesies from others.v Its founders
are business men whose experience has
awakened them to the folly as well as to
the danger Of Social drinking.
We always hasten to bid God.speed
to any and every effort which has in
view the lessening of the deplorable re.
suits Of great existing evil, and the
Anti Treating League has, therefore, our
most cordial support. While we do not
agree with them that the treating habit
is the foremost factor in bringing men
under the sway of drink we do agree
that by the adjustment of this time
honored custom the decrease In the mum.
Der of glasses handed over the bar win
be considerable and much ruin and mis-.
cry averted. We do not forget how.
ever, that treating is only one Of The
conspicuous symptoms Of the disease.
not the disease itself--far less ia
cause.
The new movement IL especially good
N that il is educative. Ii Is another
blow at traditions; one more stem. and
q long one, toward freedom, not onlv
from drunkenness but from drinl,ing
and eventually from the traffic ifself
Observe what one Of the organizers II
the league (and its attorney saws upon
this point: Npo'
All of the men In our orcan;zat;.n
are practical men Of the wnrld 49,, ss5a
have realized that drinking has M olaao
ln TINS strenuous age, and that the man
WAC would van success nowadays must
take care Of himself and conserve M
energy to the utmost. Drinking. ever
little at a time, incapacitates q man
for his business, whatever it NAV he
it Is q thing of the past.D
The alacrity with which the ana,
treating idea ia being received ana nsss
ed ON by drinkers and by the nevsnd r.ss
shows how eager the anti. nrohil - 49,
public is to be doing someting & ' na;a,
mize Che liquor evil. y 1ui'ii-
Everyone hates the deadly ma. 49,,
lGhicago Tribunel and wbenerer a ~
newspapers, even the politicians $40 We as
opportunity to strike without ye.i ~
killing they do it with vieor ana -,
tnusiasm. So long as 'temperansa ,is se ~.
not mean prohibition thew are stre uOes
ous advocates Of the cause Az s nv
new Toe Of drink" [Ibidl reouire, ~, ~
even total abstinence, 'ies noS
The essence of the Iean,s,. r.
ida,v!eness,p naiyely says a q ne,,. silee-
ines in the fact that Il a rsmsPPsper,
men m q practical way, VIZ fP sL " |
sne pocketbook' II il throurb ~ thnaougn
Sethook, Likewise, that the AIM w n, p s
appeals year after year t. NV Manhe
s g 70 the nation. II il Is monev ,, noser
makes the treating habit ~ winch 4
misc '.n money which makes tbe adaas y
llpas tree" stay. deadly
u y hardly to be supposed tha4
s,,ll q the Anti Treating Leas,, @' sne
appeal to liquor sellers and Ho,,s ue VIII
nlaeturers and 1t remains ~ ~ = iaen-
va retaliatiye measures tbas : sesn
, ,aas. Inc newspapers which hss. VIII
15 n,,la,g the new organiya tios Deen
i us.s be seen" BY sheir Eo, wiil
cruisers and patrons. "9uof ad'