News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1910-12-14

| "uoallon may have fallen in the
salue place and by this same means that
many another moral issue has met It's
death A Vermont Legislature: Men
may claim that they are interested in
Tue ooys and girls OF Vermont, in edu.
caeiUhal reform, In the making of bet
yer vermont, and they may be sincere.
bue these things will never be until the
sacred rights and interests of the child
reh are taken out of the held Of politics
vermont needs complete overthrow of
poiucal supremacy. We are ashamed
OF our leaders. There are microbes in
the politics OF Vermont, and only when
the balance Of the people having COM
nlon honesty shall unite to put their
heei upon them, Can we hope for q
puref ballot and "a cleaner government.
Goa speed the day when the women
shal zee and feel their opportunity, and
shall demand and receive the ballot.
Inns scapegoat policy is found in the
chufchs also. People are distressed at
the low state OF morals, shameful disre.
garu Tor law, the indecent behavior of
llttle children on the streets, and so the
parents, the teachers, the committee,
the tfaant officers, the minister and the
deacons, are chosen and each and all do
! sefVl1a as scapegoat. But the real
cause OF wrong aud Wickedness is in the
heart OF the people as u hole, the in
dlHerence and unwlllingless of the ill.,
diVidual, to manfully share the blame
ana the responsibility when things are
not as they ought to be, always putting
the blame on someone else, some man or
Institution, some one law or measure,
DealIQV frnm hnsh N IN Hpch m
goat to carry his sin away. No man or
community geGs rid OF sin in this way.
Ihe trouble ia the church is not higher
or lower crillclsm; its not this or that
qoctrine, this or that folly or pleasure.
LES SeI1lshness within our own breasts,
because of orr coWardice in not standing
by Everything THAI is pafe and good, and
OF good report, and hating ana fighting
everything That As dishonest, low aid
hlthy. "he American nation, the State
OF Vermont, are guilty Of Sauls sin,
When ne held the garments of the MUIR
derersof Stephen. saul threw no stone,
just held the clothes Of those who threw
the deadly missiles. The voters in Ver-
mont and i'll the nation are by their
votes holding the garments of men at
the seat OF government. Men who are
not only voting their money into other
mems pockets, out who are staying the
vital life of this republic, voting privi-
leges to one man, aud serf1om to you.
On the subject OF temperance you see
this scapegoat reform illustrated. A
few years ago the politicians got Gogeth-
er and confessed all the sins of the
liquor traffic upon the head of the pro-
hIbitory law, and it staggered into the
Wilderness and died there. But the last
state OF lntemparance In Vermont is
worse than the first. Now some think |
that the local option and high license
law is scapegoat, but If you could send |!
1t away intemperauce would remain |
And then how many nice little goats we |
keep, all saddled and bridled for the |
cure of souls and human ills Dancing. |
card playing, ale, wine, cider, tea, cot |
fee, snuff, soda water! But these things !
are not the cause of all the woe and |
misery OF life. Bad enough, some of |
them, but you cannot cleanse the foun-
by going DOWN TO where the
stream EN- pties into the ocean, and lash
ing the waves there.
The only way tt get rid of sin by the
scapegOat method Is for us all to turn
scapeg0at, and flea to the wilderness
.ud liver come back. 1t is So easy to
in in a orporation How msDy an
honest man goes 10 the seat of govern
nent. H NAV come bsct an hone It
nan Ii so, he is more or less an insur-
,tnt forever, az tlnst corporate cor
upgiun or he nidy have poo'ed his
Ouscleuce to the love, evei # that
,ody, remaining there 70 vote away
ur money ami our liberty
All of u eau do =, 81 nethl x for
enuiu rofolm fne l-nH AN one eau
o is 10 hold up to eve las Ing srorn and
ontempt rhis SC iueg ,at ethod. Ii is
complete allure every VII r.. Not
thirst nim3e ca TAX. away SIN in this
yay. He came save thu people from
heir in TO oestrov 81 i'll the flesh. J
Ear thae too many If us nave applied
his scApegoat theory 10 our own per.
)Lal sa'vati0n. For why rs it that so
my of the meu no have disgr3ced us,
f whom we have been asharu d, for
HON we have busted, who were our
hief deiaulIers and robbers. have been
r tessors Of religion, supporters OF the
hurch, very orthodox, ii they did not
nagne that thev had St mt their SINS
way, heaping them uo)n another
ersou. Oh fatal falscy, most fatal to
le individual, aud most fatal to the
ord!