The organ of the temperance reform. (Cincinnati, O. [Ohio]) 1852-1853, 1852-10-08
Ave thav Fools or KnaYesI /

Are they Fools or Knaves!I
We ask attention to the following
remarkable hand-bilI, copies of which
have been extensively posted in the
4th Congressional District of Indiana.
An address and five reasons are given
why the Democratic candidate for
Congress should not be elected. We
would like to discuss them in detail,
but we did not get hold of the pre-
cious document until We were about
going to press. The gentlemen who
sign the address, claim that the right
to plunder, rob and ruin society, is
guaranteed to them forever from the
foundation of the Government" The
thief and the highwayman have the
same right to complain, when their
BUSINESS and privileges are interfered
with.
"No rogue e'er felt the halter draw,
With good opinion of the law"
The whole gist of Mr.. Lanes Of
Tending is, that like humane man,
and a gentleman, he is in favor of pro.
tecting society against the sum of all
villanies. He has been heard to say,
if this hand bill is to be believed, that
whisky was a poison" and that he
would "greatly prefer to see the rats
destroy all the corn in the country,
than to see it made into whisky
What a wretch! Who can vote for
a man so destitute of honor as to de-
sire to " destroy the great commercial
Institution at Aurora? What is this
great commercial IaStitution? A fl
thy, sinking distillery, which, with its
slops and hog-pens, is so offensive as
to render the whole town and neigh
berhood a nuisance. Even travellers
by the river are compelled to hold
their breath as they pass, or inhale
the suffocating and poisonous stencil.
If the people of Aurora were not law
abiding, and disposed to bear the cruel
infiction, rather than resort to vio-
lence, this great commercial Institu
ton would be levelled to the ground.
We do not know what effect this APP
peal may have upon the result of the
election, but we believe that the elec-
tors of the 4th District are men Of
intelligence, and cannot be imposed
upon by Gaf, Caddington and COM
pany. Men of principle and good
sense will look upon this card as a
low, vulgar, contemplate production,
entirely worthy of its authors, and in
keeping with other productions of the
'great commercial Institutions" We
think it will be the most harmless of
all the manufactured articles Of the
Aurora Distillery. Hurra far James
H. Lane We will chronicle his cleo
ton with the greatest pleasure.
To the Voters of the 4th Congress
siOnal District, Indiana.
FELLOW CITIzENs:-We the under
signed, your fellow citizens, in order
to protect ourselves, our property and
our business, from those who seek to
destroy the rights and privileges guar
anteed to us from the foundation Of
this government, and also depnving
us of business that has added so
much to the great commercial busi-
ness of this country, and especially to
our State, would call your attention to
the unconstitutional and unprincipled
course pursued by James II. Lane,
candidate for Congress in this 4th)
district, in his effort with the Sons Of
Temperance, giving his unqualified
support to the Maine Liquor Law,
which prohibits the sale or manufac-
ture of spirits in the State.
/. We charge him with being Son
of Temperance, 10 whom he has
| pledged his honor to support none but
those who are favorable to the Maine
Law.
| 2. While President Of the Senate,
be made q speech in whick be said,