New-York daily tribune., 1845-04-01
The Rum Question
is5- The Morning News says on the Liquor

K The Morning News says on the Liquor
Question:
ave happen TO differ from it the Tbunel about The
wisdom Of the method It prefers for the promotion OF ie
Temperance Cause and though as eareSt friend 10 me
cause itself do not think its method OF esa conVl
.io to prohibit the sale Of ardent spirits, ana TO th'o me
question as a re-brand into our elections the btt one
We think this mode OF forcing people I" e nor ~
and v;se BIZ act Of parliament and greatly prefer 10 abolish
the license system al;orethera view IN w!ich VIC hiH
tia, are sustained by Of the principal i1eh's o le
Temperance Cause in this Git!
Neighborl you compel Us to say that we thlhN
your professions of earnest friendship for the lem
perance Caus. are unloundcd. What have You
ever done 70. tha, Cause even in the method wiiich
YOU no1r say You believe the only proper one +! has
vour uaper been known from It's establishment as
an open. jealous. manly advocate OF Total Ahsl-
nence from all that can lnoxicale? Has 1t at all
times published articles showing The moral ''To"s
and rnischievous tendencies OF the traffic IN Ardent
Spirits! Has II been very generally prescribed and
banisbed. on account of its ucompromlsIne advo-
cacy of Total Abstinence, from the gros-shops iof
all parties If not, you have right 10 say that
the difference between us Is one respecting means
only.
After talking a while IN the precise strain which
those who are not and do not pretend TO be, friends
Of Total Abstinence would have it, the News gives
It's reasons for opposing the New Excise Law as
follows
ave certainly can see good reason for holding sre-
cia election such question AZ this-(eFery e'ectoh
costs the city hundred thousand dollarsJ-"eh ie
ncsent elective city authorities already possess an %
tied authority the subject. They can grant OF Wll
hold lceses and the same public Will which would decide
sc an election against granting OF licenses, could win
equal ease brought bear for their suppression IN
much simpler way. But the truth is, this movement IS
mere piece Of political tckery. sprung on the approaching
election though hiss doubtless taken In hundreds and
thousands ,cous object. lit be true TINT
petition Of 10000 has been collected and sent np
TO Albany in favor Of the proposed law WHY could not ie
signatures bc appended, for each respective ruto
petition equiston against the bestowal c any licenses
in that Ward? # a majority OF the voters OF The Ward
should express their will. they would have II in their
own power attention to H. at the next election
should be ohcyed withou; recourse TO the pcrsa-
sive power of The bailot-box.
The News here completely stul,liies itself. 1t
processes an anxiety 10 keep the License question
out OF politics, and yet recommends course whicl',
If pursued viii inevitably make that question po-
renial elemen, in all future Charter Elections
The New Excise Law, If extended 10 tins city,
takes the question out OF politics-separates en-
iirelv from our State and Charter Elections, and
tends to keep II separate. But lei the bill be de-
fea,ed now, or this CITY excluded from its opera
uon, anu houlhS can PleNe" o'e I"uSi'i ~ ""'
controversy INTO our Fall Election and all subse-
qpent contests. The majority Of the Senate will
comm, gross political bundcr if they satier them
selves to be overruledby the Ardent representations
and threats from our City.
The assertion OF the News that the present ex..
citement has sprunsu throughany political trick
ery' on the part of the friends of the New Excise
Law is grossly al variance with the truth. No ac-
ton on or side was contemplated until Delega-
ton from the dealers went up 10 Albany, aud, by
threats OF Political detection. procured consent to
the exclusion of our City from the operation of the
law The bill did not originate with our City-i;
was not devised, expected, hoped for, by the Tenn
perance men here. As usual. the Political trick
sers are the first 10 cry Stop thief! 1t cannot
permanently avail them.