New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1852-04-03

But II may no. be necessary to suppress driGsins
houtes sue upPltrg shops IN the City of Nes-fork.
They nay havo experienced no iBconvepences from
Their, or may have more cOnsc eniiou' cisH OF
dealers than we in the country villagesof Name or
there may be no suffering and wreichednes 10 re.
heve, no poverty and crime to prevent, ard DO IN
clinstion 10 break tie s1 N 80. they do not Reet
the Maine Law" But In this State, tntemperance
had siOwn 10 be monster which we could never Kill
until We had cut of his head.
Ills said we can never force people to ao andon
bad habits that temper e, ike virtue and religion,
must be inculcated oy other means than compuslon'
n NAV be 10 we are not conroverins that position
But n the remark 10 intended 10 apply to the rumse-
Ter and his business. we'dissent from IL ehurely-
With such men argument and persuasion nave ex-
hausteo all their force and We must either eufenoe,
the ground or 'tTy what virtue there IL IN stones
In doing this We do not invade others nights, out
only protect our own We have aright 70 save our
selves from the paupersm for which We are 20
lily taxed the crimes that endanger our persons ana
property, and our Children our friends, anc perhaps
ourselves, from the degrading effects OF rum. we
destroy that which is desroyng everything else tna
is virtuous and good, and which is supplantng the
only reliable basis of free the virtue
and intelligence Of the people And 10 not such an
object proper subject of legislation II We cannot
many ropes Of sand If the people in their state of
society have not surrendered some portion OF their
natural liberty, then our social compact 10 no com
pact at all 1t 10 true forciole means should not be
taken to correct any until mildsr meas
urss have failed But such il our case IN regard 70
tho present race Of rumsellers. For twenty years
by Individual Effort by association by the lecture
and the press,
I'VE have e.horsd them admsnished them, forstod the
And the lurking enemy that lay in wait
Beyond this IL Force"
We should like to see the senior editor Of The Poet
on a summer morning, walk out into his beautiful
gardens at Hampstead Harbor, and ind herd OF
nogs who hao broken into his grounds, craunchlng
bis vegetables oemoshing his flower beds and doing
other unse emily acts Because with his views OF
duty and of policy he could only resort to moral
stYate with them, tell them OF the wrong and inJus-
tce they were nictins upon him and his family, and
beg of them they regard their characters a. good
hogs, that would neither jump nor root to leave the
garden Immediately. The hogs might possibly raise
their shouts aud grunt at him they might "turn
and rsnd him" But We will warrant he weuld fare
better with the hogs than he would with the rumsel
leTs should he visit their fashionable saloons and
geneei resorts to demonstrate against afnc which
devouriDg the fruits OF all philanthropc labor and
demolishins this beautiful fabric OF human society.
But says The Post, if people can't get alcoholic
stmuants. they will resort to opium and other mar
cotcs ifthey can't indulge in that particular vice,
they will in some other as bad. 1t might DO 20.
servations would have led to different conclu.
sion. But be it to-must We then abandon all effort
TO re strain vice : We must not punish man for
getting property by false pretenses, because II he
could get it 80 he would steal 1t and We should
not punish him for the theft, because H no did not
steal he would rob nor for robbery, because the
man might become murderer. The objection goes
to our whole Criminal Code, and We would be wise
to abolish il. Such 10 the argument, II 1t Is any
thing but an argument surely, that needs no refu-
substituted We do not know but we must take them
a. they come" shoot folly az 1t fles"-and II we
comet overcome all the sinful pYopensties OF men,
we may try to keep them within endurable bounds.