Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1908-04-13
w. c. T. u. COLUMN.
WHY WE NEED TEMPERANCE
WORK AND WORKERS.


daily verified. To educate the..rising
generation, to elevate tried, tempted
and fallen ones, to suppress the liquor
traffic, to stay the hand Of the rumsel-
Ter as it reaches forth to STAY hour
youth, ruin our families and make des-
olate homes.
We need to work planning and.carry-
ing forward measures which shall..re-
suit in the total suppression of intem-
perance.
The avenues leading to this work are
multitudinous. It is said there are IL
saloons to every church and IL bartend-
ers to every minister. The church
opens its doors two or three days in a
week; the saloon grinds on and on with
its mill of destruction all the days of
the week, all the months of the year !:
hence the need of work.
| But we cannot have work without
! workers. And by these we do not
necessarily mean lecturers, organizers
etc. For in Gods great field of labor
all work is not the same. He has a
service for each one, each one has a
mission and all have an Individual re-
sponsibility. Opportunities rarely pre-
sent themselves twice; therefore we
I should seize them ere they pass. Too
many are not alert to their opportuni-
ties and duties, but indifferently let
them pass by. We know that when it
was left for the voice of the people
to say if the prohibitory law should
be Etaken from the constitution of
Vermont, the majority of votes said
Eyes," Yet we do not believe the
! majority of voters voiced that decision.
1t is well-known fact that hundreds
of voters absented themselves from the
voting places ;even when so vital ques-
ton was to be decided. The man who
did not avail himself of the opportunity
of voting on that notable February 3
did as much toward marring Vermont's
falr history as the man who voted
yes" We need workers more than
ever to educate the youth not to accept
of the heritage that is being handed
down to them in the form of the Ii
cense law. We work in hope that they
wiser and stronger in their dav
may trample it beneath their feet and
restore Vermont to her high position
which she held for SO years.
We need workers in all places what
ever your occupation we need your
helping hand. Mothers, whose time
seems so full Of home duties, do not
think there is none for you. One of
the most important departments of the
w. G. I. U. is the L. T. L., where the
children are taught the evils of strong
drink and pledge themselvs to abstain
from its use. Do you see that your
children are among the number? How
small task but how great a duty.
| Should the time come when your boy
shall fall a victim to it's deadly inhu-
ence; or your girls content with asso-
ciates who are addicted to it's degrad
ing use; will you have no remorse?
! Can you say Il had no opportunities
Realizing the need of work and workers,
we appreciate the hundreds of men and
women who have given time and mon
ey to this great cause.
The victory, if it is to be gained.
must be gained by united forces. for in
unity there is strength. Then together
let US work "For God and Home and
Every Land.'
Argument for Resubmission.
| The Middlebury Register, in pre-
election editorial urging ''No" vote,
declared that one great argument origi-