New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1846-05-16
Vote on License, May 18th.

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TIE SAFE Vigilance Committee have printed and
circulated 10000 OF Mr. Ta5er's appeals 10 you,
sanctioned By the Rochester Convention. They
have also printed and forwarded through me Por,
oHce AID Otherwise, 5000 copies o: TIE BaiGace.
or Liceas. or No Lissnse Examiner. Should TIE
appeals sen, for,h be RENTED The STATE Temperance
Society would b relieved from 2 debt incurred /.
farsberance o! Temperance winch has for years op-
pressed il
OF sophisrs IN favor Of tie liquor trade here IS
70 lack Among these Is me assumption ihst as
disdEeries ind breweries consume the products OF
the harvest field they must tend 70 raise the price
Of these products. and therefore conduce 10 the
wealth of those who produce them. Without stop
ping to expose the fallacy OF This assumption, We
would ask. " neihe, war does nci by the waste it
occasions o; the products Of tic earth and the labor
il wi;hdraes from is cultivation tend to increase
the price of its products Is war ihen,-war thar
has so fearfany increased The debt OF European
raonerchies, and b. increasing i: increased Tie ter
ation OF tie ctiratlo1 Of tie SOIL I'll! The Of
a bare Subsistence only IS ft them. Is which
has done ihs. snd which Were it to continue, would
ultimately reduce the cultivation OF the soil 10 beg
sarv-is war, because it raises IN the first iostasce
the price Of the products OF the field conducive 10
to the interest oil him that cultivated it The farmer
is no more exempt from toe barIhens run imposes
than from those imposed by wsr-bG-,hens already
onerous and which f the same are to continue 10 be
increased viii in the end Ike the bur.hens Of wsr,
reduce these oppressed thereby 20 beggary.
Whereas were the distileries and breweries De-
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thus employed would socn be invested in mauuiac-
turing or some other productive business. TIE
waste OF lie occasoned by intemperance prevented,
and both the population and wealth Of The State in
creased and correspondent with that increase would
be the demand for the products Of the field, and the
reward OF him that cultivated il
The Committee have now said all that is in their
power 10 say through The medium Of the Press, and
with the transmission Of this sheet they commit the
whole question. under God. to your decision.
The time for individual and decisive action has
Whether Il IS fer The intertst Of the State to grant
Licences fer the sale of intoxicating poisOns
5ereraee, as has teen done heretofore
Thai tremendous evil social civil and pecuaiary
exists among us. the result of the legozed sale of
these poisons. 10 one doubts. The question OF Ii
cense or no License comes home the business and
bosoms Of the entire community-t effects the
health and happiness and virtue OF every family and
the pocket of ercry tar payer-and i; is for you
therefore to say whether the poor-house shall be
sill farther enlarged 10 receive the wives, and tie
children of the Drunkard hereafter 10 be made by
the rum trade and the prison house TO contire tic
criminals to be sent forth 10 prey upon the comnu-
nitv from the rum holes hereafter be established
-rnd 10 say also whether you are willing 10 supply
from your families the victims 10 be corrupted and
10 foot the 6iis to be paid for their corruption,
well as TO become par,skers in the guilt TO be in
Cured by corrnptng them To all OF which you
will return an answer at the ballot box-on Tie day
appointed for that purpose-an answer big with
destiny. and which will be for veal o. toInsny
family, as well as individual, and answer for
which each of must give an account a, the bar of
God at the day OIL Judgment.
No provision has been made for publishing the re-
suit OF this important election. The returns how
ever are to be furnished 10 The Secretary OF State
in twenty days after Tie l9.h OF May. These re-
turns the Committee intend TO take and publish In
an cxtra-giving the exact vote for and against
rum and vice and temperance and virtue in each
town. Should there be any town in the State so
blind 20 lis own best interest as 10 vote Tor rum and
yice-thai town will be shrouded In mourning, as
one OF the dark places in the State be ene hsned
by the friends OF Temperance before another day OF
trial comes round.
VIII the country papers please give this commu-
nicaton one insertion
EDWARD C. DELAVAN Chairman.