Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1907-04-01

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the majority and could speedily over
throw the iniquity If they would but
exercise their power.
My dear New England friends, /
would plead that you DO not allow
yourselves to be beguiled by the
subtitle sophistries of those who would
seek to perpetuate in your midst this
arch enemy of righteousness and love
and everything else that is good and
ennobling in the land.
am unable to express my gratifi
cation with the noble utterances of
the Sabbath school convention which
met in Craftsbury last fall in
reference to the license iniquity Gas
also on some other subjects) as pub
lished, and would sincerely trust that
the sentiments there expressed may
speedily prevail throughout the state
to the supreme and permanent
overthrow of this great enemy
of all that is good and true
therein. Oh! if ell the people of the
effects of the drink evil as | have seen
them elsewhere and as they to such
fearful extent prevail in 80 many por-
tions of our great country, feel
confident that they would at once
arise in their might, and NOW, while
they have it in their power to do 0
would effectually and forever stamp
out from their fair state this awful
thing. And if what I have hereby
done shall have any effect toward
urging them SO to do [ shall be only
too glad that I have made the effort.
Let US all remember that "Behold,
noa0 is the accepted time; behold,
nO9O is the day Of salvation.' "To-
day If ye will hear his voice harden
not your hearts" etc. (2nd Cor. 6: 2;
, Heb. 8: 8, 10; Ps 50: ~ The future
may be too late. Il she heed not the
J Masters warning the time may come
! nay, the time aUilI come-for Yer
t mont as, from a human standpoint, it
, seems to have come already to other
portions of our land, when the citizens
4 will be poWerless to effect such
i deliverance.
r Let US not be unmindful of the
D moral contained in Hsop's fable OF
Q the farmer and the viper. We may
rest assured that this deadly viper
e the liquor traffic, will eventually
! Lo
S commonwealth which fosters ant
/, protects the gigantic evil as we are
t doing in this professedly Christian
g land. And we may also rest assured
d that nothing but the most radically
|. fundamental treatment accompanied
Q by the most heroic effort on the par
h of the citizens, such as Judge Artmal
10 has inaugurated, will suffice to crust
l. the viper's head and free the lane
q from its evils; for we must be right
10 we would hope for permanent sue
'e cess, and we must work as we'll a
IS trust and hope and pray in order tina
of such success may be achieved.
al also feel that the logic of all tn
n above, if consistently applied, wi
al rule out local option as a means fo
q, the overthrow of the drink traffic a
/ well as the license system, for locs
Id option means license in district
r where the people want it.
N is license "piecemear' instead {
o0 Gin toto" The argument and cor
A. illusions herein will certainly bs
L "piecemea'' license as well as by tn
IL wholesale. Nothing but complet
is and absolute PROHIBITION will suffic
Is to relieve the citizens of responsible
IT, for the evil, for so the Lord declare
IL "Break off thy sins by Righteousness
ST and thine iniquities by showing mere
OF to the poor; if it may be lengther
% ing of thy tranquility" ''Abstai
II from all appearance of evil" (Dal
10 4: 81; 1st Thess 5: %.
+ Sincerely yours,
r j. F. CROZIER.