Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, IA [i.e. Ind.]) 1839-1854, 1846-05-12


keep by asking them 60 what right and sound
and healthy in the community that TO abandon liquor
selling. More than that is il not too much for them 10
ask for sanction. Lwhat has never heretofore
been granted with consent to keep up establish
n,en destructive to people. in order
raodate few highway passengers, in whom have
interest, No. passenger drinkers if you satisfied
with good vctuais and comfortable bees and kind attend
and sober landlords and good sober hostlers.
have for you. We don't 60 for license 70
ruin our 0rn folks to please you.
In passing up the OF the where lquor
sold, you shops of retail? II you
did what Old you see there? been very
mon TO see some poor boated-faced rsdnosed fellow
creatures, sitting about lazy, and oyercome,-who
negecng their families and spending the few dime. and
half dimes they could for liquor while their wives
probably home struggling with poverty ana
ty subsistence, and their children perhaps bare Of shoe.
and other clothing and growing up without education
viii. the example wretrhei father haste ming TO tho
grave OF this rabIc yicea nuisance 70 his
fani "a moth TO the community, AMI misery 10 ha-
self Have you not IL and been made sorry. III
be bound you have Withhold the license
When poor, miserable drunk wretch goes following
and swearing along the street, and shocks every person
Of good feelings by his noso. vugarity and wckedness
let US reflect: ehere did he pet tie E7uor Almost al
ways licensed place. Let not be guilty Of his sin
ply the poison.
large profit establishment s, otherwise respec-
table, doubt derived from the sale Of liquors and
this will the cnac.ty with which they cling
and for the part their take for them They
car well afford to spare part liquor brb.
purchasers, and buy up advocates among those Who
love It.
The present question is not about tho right drink
but about the law to regulate the saie of liquor.
This question commercial intimately connect
ed with public morals, and public gooi While those who
sell profits faster than almost any other class
of citizens that by business which puts the
tho of every othor interest in society,
ought, in self protection. to look to its bearings
The respectable liquor establishments we have.
will condescend sell, for the gain, general way,
any who calls forit, of whatever class ti4e
munity
p Every lauIable calling is injured by IT For IN
stance What is politician. lawyer doctor,
chant farmer citizen good for when he has be-
come the victim of drunkenness
3 A large proportion OF the pauperisIn IN land
suits and has resulted from the use OF toxicatlug drink
Hence CHIEF BURDEN OF THE roo
Q L E., and relief OF tho poor elsewhere, GEouchr
UPoN Can any deny that the groE
shops help forward, and add greatly the Of
drunkenness Let then permit them exist by
consent
Blu, it is objected that "If stop License, deprive
the runi-scer of his living" But where dos h.. living
come from Ellis bread may be takon from the mouths
the hungry, wrurg from the earnings Of the ,hvering
Twenty families may be ruined TO support his, ana a
whole town taxed to support them. Shall the children Of
neghbors grow up ignorance that his be edu-
Gated Shall mothers and daughters 90 to the poor
house flthors and the grave that he may haze
living Caa he like The Il Ais lciog
another ray If farmer prospcrs, he aids others. Ills
wagon and harness. his tools his furniture, clothing,
Injuries, assist other useful trades. But if grogsol
Ter prosper, his best customers may lose their farms
tools, and become eneebled and impoverished, that
they will have assist others
Let suppose that enemies o the retailers
of strong drinks NOT WE. We wish them we'll We
would be glad TO do them favor. We heartily desire
their prosperity, the best But selling
liquor however, We want them 10 quit that detestitle
business and follow hono,abic useful busnesthen
they shall have right hand Of support We want
them quit selling liquor, and to quit before
they get into bad habits for large proportion of those
who retail liquors. fall themselves into drunkenness-
Besides if they should ge, drunk their probably
WILL and grow up ioa and such business rarely pros
pers long
To save retailer then, let Us do him the kindness
to refuse him license
Let II. be very cautious how listen TO who adj
license for such Establishments and pretend talk
about peoples rights to retail liquor Very few sound
upright men will venture TO do IT. perhaps we ght more
properly say very few do it, without violating bet
ter Judgment and feelings When hear speak
ing in favor of licensing GROCERIES and such like
we'll begin TO think whether he is
he of his people not reapng profits from IL
quor. 1t makes have sundry thoughts about him. If
powder mill or soap-facorv up the middle
Of town, rights would begin grow DIM and the ctze
would begin to think about their protection.
The right to grant licences for retailing spirtuous IL
quors by law, vested in the Board of County Commits
sioners who viii feel themselves instructed they
ly ought TO be- by majority Of the people OF any
Township
To put stop the business of licensed retailing in
this Townshp-to clear ourselves Of this Of those