The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1910-11-03

Them In Congregational, Methodist,
Baptist and Unitarian Churches.
October 80 was Anti-Soloon Sunday
in Montpelier and the pulpits of the
Congregational, Methodist, Baptist
and Unitarian pulpits were occupied
by representatives of the Vermont
Anti-Saloon League. offerings being
taken at the close of the several SER
vices for the benefit of this work.
Trinity Church.
At Trinity church, Frank r. Keith
of Boston, former secretary of the
Massachusetts division of the organ
i2ation, occupied the pulpit and pres
ented most convincing argument
He said in part:
As a nation in comparison with
the years we have lived, we have had
more difficult problems to solve than
any other nation and other nations
look TO our great Christian nation to
aid them in solution of such prob
lens. Five or six weeks ago d
Columbia professor who had investi-
gated the moral conditions of the
country summed up his report in
two sentences. TO understand is to
rectify,' and we are solving gigantic
problems not for our own benefit but
for the benefit of mankind"
The speaker referred to child la
Dor conditions in the South which
were deplored by the nation as one
man, when comprehension of the out
rage dawned and to conditions in
Chicago which tended more to i'm
morality among employees of certain
industries than any other conditions
which We're improved upon and
closed SO saloons daily in 1908 and
80 in 1909.
The crimes of Sunday which are so
per cent greater than any other day
OF the week are traced TO the Satut-
day night saloon. From a criminal,
an economic, political aspect the
liquor traffic is menace, costing the
corrupt legislation when the use of
money in the hands Of wealthy men
became punishable by imprisonment.
This increased responsibility of the
individual and comprehension of and
respect for the law which is solving
other problems will solve the prob
lens of the liquor traffic, There are
many pessimists but we are begin
ming TO understand and to solve he
issue.
No man will take issue with clean
right and clean wrong The licens-
ing of any immortality is wrong
There are fundamental errors in pro-
hibi1ion laws bur there is no choice
The temperance crusade is the cru
SADIE of moral reformation. We
changed when they We're understood
and to relations between employer
and employee when the leaders of
this country made inves tigation and
the government took action resulting
in the practical emancipation of the
working mantle greatest provision
resulting being the employers liza
bility law, and to the decrease of
. country five dollars per capita for
every one dollar it puts in and max
ing for the lowest type Of politician,
but there is a greater aspec;-tAe
moral issue-the saving of boys and
girls from debauclery which, once
taken hold, as the national president
OF wholesale and retail liquor deal
ers said, until they are twenty-one
does not loosen its grip upon them.
Vermont has the methods, the ma
terials, the churches but the crying
need in this State is campaign funds :"
Col. OsgOOd Speaks.
Al the Church of the Messiah. Col
Nnel (. G. Osgood, Of Nashua, y. r.,
who was a member of the staff of
Governor Josiah Grout and for many
years a resident of this State, was the
speaker. He took up three common
reasons given why license was bet
ter than prohibition. They are: Ii
ceGse helps business and helps pay
taxes While prohibition does not pro-
hibit Col. Osgood replied that IL
cense does not, in the last analysis,
either help business or pay taxes and
he had figures to show that prohibi-
ton, while it does not annihilate,
does decrease the sale of liquor nf
tie law is enforced.
The apparent help TO business is
only apparent. The stimulation is
similar TO that produced in the indi-
vidual and leaves an injury. The sum
derived from license fees is more than
offset by the decrease in other taxes
and n tine depreciation of property
situated near licensed places. To
say that prohibition does not pro-
hibit is 10 admit there is no attempt
TO make it prohibit. The law will
not enforce itself.
The speaker held that the open sa-
loon is greater evil than the kit
chen bar, because Of the example Il
places before the boys and girls of
tie country, while the secret selling
is nor known TO them.
Col Osgood spoke in Worcester in
t-e afternoon.
Chaplain Farman Of the Senate.
snoke al the Peoples Church in the
morning, delivering a strong sermon.
he spoke of the decrease in license
places in the state and the tendency
70 Droribi which Is becoming
State wide. The evils of license were
brought ont and the good influences
u ~~oNih't'70 enphasized
Rev. c. r. Baylis' Discourse.