New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1850-06-03

penses and losses caused by the traffic.
Yours, respectfully A. HoeEBoos'
Remarks.
Our correspondent can give no better reason o'
legally suppressing gambling house yet licensing
or toleratiug grog shop than his assertion uhA'
Public Opinion condemns the former ana DUES
NOT Condemn the latter Admit this to be the iacN
ard we insist that il affords good reason for doing
Inst what be objects to whenever we nave inc
rowsr The immediate obstacle to right acton
being an ignorant depraved state OF opinlon' VIC
insist that those who are free from that delusion
Should act not according to others ignorance ou' %
their own knowledge. If we do otherwise, we
confirm and strengthen those who are wrong In
their baneful and periious error. They VIII
bly, say, Rumselling cannot be as bad as keep
ing gambling house for If 1t was those VINO
are opposed to both would prohibit toe former
.lwhen they have power strictly as the latter
And they would reason correctly from the premises
conceded. Now we contend that II IS our duty 70
act so as TO dispel this mistaken opinion and widen
the conviction that Rumselling is Hagrant wrong.
Nothing is better calculated TO reiute and Danish
wrong opinions than acting according to right ones
advance of public sentiment, and has therefore
been subjected to a temporary repulse but that
i,s general influence has tended to promote the
Temnerance cause. we cannot doubt. The States
that were foremost in resortng to prohibitory laws
are Massachusetts, Vermont, Maine, &c-are now
foremost in devotion to and progress in the Tenn
perance Reform
We oonsider it the chief end Of human laws to
IL reenact the law of God"-that Is, to sustain wnat
/. right and forbid what is wrong. humsellng Is
either right or wrong-it is not an opinion but an
.ot-snd we would deal with it according to our
convictiops We would use Moral Suasion only
to prevent Theft, Forgery, Burglary &c. where
thew were fashionable and held in honor, until we
could no far correct public sentiment as to enable
us to add Legal Suasion thereto-that point obtain
cd. we should double the team. Moral Suasion'
AGAINST Polygamy, Infanticide, &c. by Mission
aries in heather lands is very proper yet we never
heard that any of them objected to trying Legal
snssion also whenever public sentiment had be.
come sufficiently corrected by the former to enable
them to add the latter.
But the kind Of law we consider adapted TO
the present stage Of the controversy ought not to
be objected 10 ny Oui NoiiSoPS~'' ~ $3.50 49,
contemplate any complete prohibition OF the Hum
Traffic. All that it proposes is the simple charging
ofthe expenses noe inflicted on the community by
he Rum Traffic upon those rho are engaged an
and trying TO make money byh. Our correspond
ept suggests the difficulty of determining against
whom the damage in particular case should be
charged But we do not propose any such incui-
sition. A sober and thrifty man begins to drink
choice wine or punch at festivals or parties; next
addic,s himself to Cognac at dinner and frolics at
tip-top hotels and finally gets down to soaking his
hide and burning his brains with counterfeit
brandy and crucifying whisky at the lower order Of
FROG shops Who shall say which Of these classes
of temptations is the more culpable He starts
from home some morning to go to work, but
takes glass at the first grogshop which imPes
| him to take another at the next; and thus fired
| I'D. he goes from one den to another until
| he is carried home at night dead drunk: Who
can say which rumseller is blamable for his de.
basement Our plan is to ascertain the rhOie
pecuniary damage inflicted on the community by
Alcoholic Liquors. assess the amount equally on all
who lin each County, for example) sell the des-
! troying poison, and make each pay his portion.
| Wby Ia not that fair Ed. IT1b.