New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1846-02-14
Chairman Central Committee, Alban
For The Tribune.
The License Questionable.


Formers Of ne State Of VEG YORK
Farmers we feel tha, in the approaching contest
we can safely calculate on you-you who. earning
your bread by the sweat OF your brow, enjoy life
can have no motive to commit suicide yourselves,
or 10 encourage your neishbors 10 COMM, it. What
ever therefore, induces sickness or shortens life,
must be accounted by you enemy-and though
you may have kept record of the causes OF death
in your vicinity, and are not now able 10 recall TO
recollecons the diseases of which those friends and
neghbors died. whom you have followed to the
grave still such records have been kept and the
labor of arranging the facts in question has in your
behalf been 10 a considerable extent performed.
Samuel Chipnan visited whole Counties and Oh
tanned his facts from physicians, with certificates
The farming district gave about 80 per cent. OF
deaths by intemperance among the male adults
the villages about so per cenL-the average was
third.
4 gentleman who was very much displeased
with the suggestion made in one of the early tenn
perance publications Of the day-that ii was thought
lhaI one tenth of the male adult population died
drunkards. was induced TO keep register OF all
the deaths in his town of male adults, and he found
that in the space OF four years the deaths amounted
TO tmeat y-niRe, and of them nineteen died drunk
ards. He stated also that had he not kept the re-
gtstPr, ana mus nau MS Tue
ject ne could have supposed the original suggestion
an exaggeration. Thanks 10 a good Providence
this per ceotage OF deaths from ipiemperance has
been reduced especially in the farming districts.
But would ask You where those friends, rela-
tons and acquaintances now filling the grave OF the
drunkard. and gore 10 their luaI account, were
educated and scEuolei in that habit which resulted
in their ruin 2 Was il not in the licensed tavern
erected in The vicinity and sometimes even beside
YOUR house of worship! We do not wish TO open
wounds which time has healed inyour hearts. We
do not wish 10 intiict new wounds; but by the re-
membrance of the past 10 induce you, who constl-
iaie vast majority of the voters OF his State, TO
put your seal oi condemnation on this destructive
traffic.
Farmers of the Empire State do you wish your
sons. now coming the stage OF action, 10 be tempt
ed their rain and your daughters TO run the risk
of becoming wives 10 druukards! Ii so, then vote
for the License; then let the same pole be again
reared, and The same dram-sbop opened; and 10 u
corresponding extent your wishes will no doubt be
realized, and you will enjoy whatever oil blessed.
ness can result from being surrounded by drunken
sons sonsn-lHw and grand sons. But we hope
better things of you, and doubt not that. after ex
aiming the quesiion-a question so Intimately con-
nected with your own well being and the well-being
of your Country-you will be found at the post OF
duty, armed with your ballots, bearing the impress
of ireenen and designed 10 terminate the bondage
which driaking and drinking usages impose; and
thus 70 secure 10 your families, and 10 posterlty,
freedom freedom from the pauper tax and the
criminal prosecution tax. and freedom from the
brawls, aud assaults and batteries and domestic dis
turbances so rife in cities and villages where rum is
permitted 10 do, according to law, its appropriate
work
How peaceful. and orderly, and distinguished by
prosperity and thrift will the Country become when
Intemperance, with its legions of accompanying de-
mons, shall be bauished and the rural population
left without the additional incentives which intox
eating liquors afford both to riot and crime.
Farmers of the State of New-York! let not bal
Iot.box in single in the State be sOiled by q
vote for License through you, bat let go forth TO
the world that each and every one OF you have de.
posted the treeman's ballot against Rum and Muir
der No LICENSE.