Wisconsin tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1847-1854, 1851-12-18
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The Temperance Circular.

THE Milwaukee Editors appear 20 be IN
great trouble ab out the late movement to OBJ
tain. FOR our State, the Maine liquor law
They szy that The measure is too stringent;
that such a law cannot be sustained, and that
law no. sustained had better be repealed,
&C. All this NAV be true of their famous
city, and. probably, a few other places in the
State But is that any reason why those who
want the law-believed 10 be a great majority
Of the people should not have it for their
projections Has il come TO this, that the
rights, lives, properties, and persons of the
sober, the industrious. the moral, temperate
and religious portions Of the community
known to be a vast majority Of the whole
cannot be, and are not to be protected because
a few exc les and others wish to fatten a the
public expense. and are the ruin Of both soul
and BODY, Of their fellow men! Is this re-
publicanism Is this democracy Is this
guaranteeing to US the rights Of freemen /
Nav heaven save us from such freedom, and
from such rulers.
Suppose the law against murder is not sus-
tanned in some counties in the State, is that
vailed reason for not having such a law in
force. that those who choose may sustain II,
and protect themselves and families from in
discriminate slaughterf Suppose the wes-
tern portion of the State-say the mines, do
not wan, and will not sustain banking law,
and being. too, vastly in the minority IN that
case. is that any good reason, and will the
Milwaukeeans admit it TO be good reason why
such n law should not be passed by our Leg
islature They would most probably say
pass the law and let such use II as may choose
TO do so. aud such as choose not to do SO may
let it alone And so let US have the Maine
Ianor law. And if Milwaukee and few
other places choose to disregard 1t; why, let
them do SO. until they find by sad experience
that their own safety from taxes, if not from
the more direct evil effects Of the rum trade,
require amt cempells them to sustain the
law
WHY. 81. is Milwaukee. Wisconsin? OF is
Wisconsin n Milwaukee Is it only a little
square ia some back part Of that famous city,
tha, because the city. or rather certain I'M
priueipied portion Of its inhabitants, make
profit out of the rum trade, that therefore the
whole Sta . must be left open to the flood OF
ruin which this nefarious traffic IS fast bring
ing upon eur land
would ike to ask friend Booth. whether
because portion q The South object TO the
introduction Of Northern views in reference 10
1.-The peculiar institution. that therefore the
North should keep silence and let the fugi-
tive slave isv and us Yoiaries ride over Us
rourh shod say friend Booth, shall we
DO this F.! think hear you say no Stree
Well. then. shall the virtuouS portion Of the
people in Wisconsin hold peace; shall they
not claim tleir night to protection from one Of
the heaviest curses that ever fell upon and
blichted The earth, because, forsooth, such
law would not be popular in Milwaukee
see ne intimation of any doubt, as to the
correctness 9th principles couched IN the
Maine LAW It is not pretended that the abo-
liuon of the liquor trade would be an unjust
act. /, Is only said that the law cannot be
sustaiued-w here-why IL that city, OF
course, aud why not Why, if rnmoF tells
the truth. tie friends and patrons Of the trade,
,here, have the majority of votes. should
respectfully ask. thus, whether II IS likely, II
no rotss were in market, 10 be bought and sold,
;here would be such fears expressed that the
lag could not be sustained Mere. Wisconsin
had better petition Congress to SIT of that
famous cisy into State by itself. new
State. than 10 have il whole surface cursed,
hlightrd. i2Aed heavily, and all TO purchase
q few votes. Is rssf -. bribery.
cold WATER.