The Minnesota pioneer. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn. Territory) 1849-1855, 1852-03-25
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The Liquor Law.

! The more we examine the provisions OF
this law and reflect Upon the good that may
yesuIt from it, The better we like il. Other
liquor laws have proved Intellectual. The
suns have tried To take care of themselves
he Temperance Societies have tried NOR
al suasion; the pulpit has uttered its
warnings, the press has Numbered admonI-
tions--bu, il is all, ali idle and Intellectual
! TO accomplish the needed reform. Hun
drels Of COOL men, patriotic men, who
themselves drink moderately, have abstain
cal for months AMI years from drinking, for
the sake Offending their example to the cause
OF temperance, ,e help out "moral suasicn"
and who, having became satisfied tina, cx-
ample could not do the work, have aban-
doned ali societies and now drink publicly,
every day, when they want to drnk--ie-
spairing of reform; just as ships crew,
when the sails are rent and The hall Of the
dismasieJ vessel is beating with sha.ter-
ing force upon The rocky shore, break, sim
u.taneou,ly into The spirit room, and in de-
spair, ali get drunk together, before she
goes in pieces.
There Is now ray of hope, that after
all, there Is away to effect general, radi-
cal reform, and that easily. peaoeably and
by the due administration Of JUS, laws.
Now we have something 10 say 10 the
people o: Minnesota mot to abstinence men,
butt men who drink moderately. Friends,
you are no. fanatics. None of you would
suffer an encroachuent Upon your natural,
personal rights, under any pretext; but you
are a sensible, reasonable, patriotic class of
men, as we have ever known. If this law
is passed, if there is to be reform, you are
The men 10 do IT, The societies have tried
reform aud failed. Now will ysu, the men
who actually govern society, standing be-
tweea the two extremes, you, who have the
Aderalliy to ,hink that drinking a glass of
wbiskPy Is not a crime, and the sense and
patriotism also to know aud TO a Init TINT
ln,enperance IS lesoluting the land, will
you reason together with us concerning this
liquor law, and see if you cannot and will
not support n! We assume that any Of
you, woul willingly forego drinking, IL
that would effec, the REFORM; bu, the reform
proposed Ivy this law, does not inquire
whether you iorego drinking or not. It has
nothing to do with your drinking This law
simply proposes to take away the universal
temptation, which stares Us in The face at
every turn, TO drink whether any body
wants to drink or not. The force, the effect,
the fatal influence of that perpetual temp
ta,ion, upon others, you have all observed
and deplored. There are bars and rows
OF decanters AMI saloons, every where, so
that it is almost impossible to keep out of
them now, if you want to; and every bar
has an enchanted circle around it, which it
IS dangerous for any man, even you to ven
ture within. There i. wizard in it, tn Al
lays an ierres,ibe spell, sooner or later,
upon every hu MN being that ventures
within it. These circles almost touch each
other AMI their circumference is daily en-
Iarging. Within their fatal influence. are
your neighbors, your friends; and every one
of your dear children, is in hourly danger
Of their attraction. 1t is said often, .'if YOU
do not want to go to the drinking saloons,
keep away" That, in Saint Paul, is about
equivalent to saying, You may leave town.
Men who beg in to go to saloons, do not go
TO drink > but they go for one Of 4 hundred
other rsasOns, which the very existence of
drinking soloon, necessarily creates. Go
into one Of our SALOONS, and ask he persons
there, if you conI without offence several
ly, for what purpose they came. A. would
say, was lonesome and came to find COM
pany. b. am bachelor, no fire nor fun a,
my boarding house; came to keep warm.
See what cool fires they keep here? ID.
would say, should have gone to a public
library or reading room instead Of Coming
here, but drinking keeps your town too poor
to support either Of them; and no body can
he found from home at night, where liquor
Is not. T.. says, came to play billiards, a
game here inseparable from liquor. You
can never have billiard table supported in
town, without liquor, because billiards
,rith liquor, pays better. F. owns up; and
says he came in to drink Tom and Jerry:
but finding good company, they treated all
around, and he has taken half dozen Tom
and ferries, beside a Sherry Cobbler. G.
says, he came in.knowing he should find II.
and l.,wholn he must see ,and who are new
er any where else in the evening. L. came in
to play poker. X. to kill time. l.. to seen
rafil'. NJ. torlay game Of billiards. N. lust
called IN as he was going by. o. is Son,
who looked in to get realizing sense of the
depravity of the town; and took cigar at
the bar with p, who was eating the
crowd, so as 10 "seein sort Of socionable. -
z. came in because he had nothing else to