New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1850-01-14
Temperance-Law and Lieuor.

and the reform Os offenders. IL has been in1ufel
to psuse a little in It's inter-inabls AMI ever ~
creesing ts1k Of erecting dungeons and g1Doets n
;nocirs into the Gauges impulses and philosophy 81
Crime--.o discover bow and why it is that whole
classes are BON hc.rs % famine degradation. wee
and crinnnality-why Of the children bora n Pa-.
,iculsr s.reet it nay safely be affirmed that one
half viii end taeir days prisons or ANS houses
while Of their Contemporaries born 70 street some
stone throw distant ninety Line IL hundred HIl
close their eyes surrounded By the comforts AID
decencies Of lfe and be buried IN the odOr q; SAM
tty. The fruits Of such inquiries are visible IN
Sunday Schools Evening Schools, Orphan AsyllIns,
Homes for the FneDdless, Houses O. Refuge r.
&c. throughout the more enlightened portion o.
| Ciristendon They are seen in the sysieu1atc
efforts Of orr time for the Suppression Of Gambling
LiccntOasness and Iutemperanoe.
| That the use Of Intoxicating Liquors as q
beverage 10 the primary, principal and rarely DIS
peussble condition Of ever form and grade Of ha-
man decentralization and deprayliy, VII hardy be
disputed It IL barely possible that some c!erN VINO
never drank may have robbed hrs employer some
innocent maiden have been beguied into the sacrl
ice Of her virtue ye, the general truth that the cur
rent on which the 1n,Linking are swept downward
% perdtion is rvero Alcohol IS Dotoriousy beyond
cavil It's clear general rule, though not sbso-
| ately without exceptions, that beyond the class
trained % depravity from Their crsdes, and tbs
/ mainly because OF If not under the direct nsgra
ton Of parental drunkenness no msn shPwrechs
his integrity 10 woman s1rTcnders her purity, save
under the influence Of Alcoholic Liquors. Thai
assaults, theit. forgery burglary and murder aye
almost uniformly pcuetrated under the immediate
inspiration Of Alcohol. the records Of orr criminal
Jurisprudence abundan,ly establish Abolish Split
end wine drinking anl Gambling Lewdncss
Crime and Pauperism must Immediately shrink 20
less than one fourth their present giant proportions
and in many sections disappear altogether
Then Why no, abolish it Who i, there olo
loves his cups or his gains from other. drinking
well that he would not gladly surrender them prJyid
ed ho could De- sure that Human Criminstv and
Wrctchodncsss would therebybe diminished byun |,
teu;hs True while liquor shall continue to be sod
aud drank. millions Of easy whine can see no ado.
quaie reason why they should utterly wash thor
hands Of il Landlord a. mast sell liquor or hs
customers wil stop whore they can get it mor
chant b is heavily taxed 20 support the pauper
victims Of Iniempersuce and can't see what odds
makes whether the liquor drank ia town IL half sod
at his store or all At hr rivals md farmer C. dor
see why he should not take litte moderately.
since liquor viii be drank whether be takes lis
glass or not. But put II to al these to say wheiher
they would not give It up if everybody else would
and how many would have the bardhood to refuse
We hope rot great many.
Our State hss made several partial. feeble ieii.
less hating attempts 70 nd herself Of the curse Of
Alcohol she has not succeeded-such attempts
never DO TIE more feeble and timid they are the
more certain and signsl mus; be their failure. lie
bcs; act yet passed was thRt Of ls45 which dug ia
own grave on its birthday by STIMULATING for the
exception Of one eighth Of the People Of the State
from its operation a law which thus distr1sts
an dshonOrs itself VIII Of course be distusted ana
Asesteemcd by al who think at second hand Tie
law was not generally enforced, and was soon re.
pesled. And yet defective and short lived as =
was, /, did good 1t brought the consideration q
the evils Of rum drinking home t. thousands Of
hea,ths where they had hardly before been thought
o. 1t impeled cur citizens 70 look into the nature
bearings, and ends Of wise Legislation Il made
rum selersh sameieccd shy aud thoug htful through
out two thirds OF the State 1t put some Of them out
Of the business, 10 which they have not returned IL
furnished instructive basis Tor future comparisons
"A starting point for future efforts Its faults were
boscons for the future guidance of the repuscd but
undaunled and shI gathering champions OF Ten
perance. And no candid man who has carefully ot
served can deny that there was less drinking under
the operation Of that law than since It's repeal, es
pecisDy last year IL seems clear 20 our mind thai
a rcsolute effort for new and m0re stringent legsla
ton OF that sort would effect great good even louch
it should not wholly succeed.
Something must and VIII be done The various
bills already submitted to our new Legislature
tabhsh this. The very excuses OF the Cholera.
Brandy season have aroused the Temperance hosts
- new life and exerSous They are making them.
selves heard and felt over great proportion OF the
State. Public sentiment enlightened by protrscted
discussion, is now IN advance Of our existing License
laws. The presen, Legislature viii hardly adjourn
without recastng our Excise System
But how ? We have 10 faith in any such de
wee as the suggested rcquisiiion that each seller
mist keep r list OF all has sales and TO whom made
aud ,hereupon be held responsible for all damage
thence sccruing. Hon responsible A man starts
from home IN the morning drinks dozen glasses in
As many different srOggeres, and returns CRAFTY
druuk 20 beat his wife and children break the furu
ture and set the house OF fire. Which rum seller
Of the dozen shall be held responsible ir the dam
age 50 dole Whom shall he pay for the wife 5
broken head, and how much Shall he pay the ma,
who DESTROYED his own furniture the fal value O.
what part Of 1t We see not how such law i
ever 10 work reliably and useiuly
Tho State Society. we believe, propose enc
general vote throughout the State on the direct
question" Shall the sale-o Alcoholic Liquors b.
hcncoorth lawful the whole traffic 70 be treated
as uisdemesDoT if condemned by the popular yer
dict Tha, is better. and we shall be glad 10 see Il
triod This is III substance tue Vermont law. and j
works fairly in that State Rum car be found Their,
but II takes nose in ial blossom 70 scent il ont u
many localities. The poison csnnot be SAID to s.
hciI and allure neophytes 10 indulgence hardly sly
where in Vermont. Temperance GAINS ground Un
der it, in spite OF the vaanted inclination Of mankind
h laxuriste on forbidden fruit