The organ of the temperance reform. (Cincinnati, O. [Ohio]) 1852-1853, 1852-03-26
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F ] ALL
/ h can RepeT be enforced.
Ihls Is begging the question. II was 81
sald m Maine, but has proved otherwise
/ No other law was ever enforced so easily
II well nigh enforces itself II but asks fol
trial
XIII.
h toiA produce reaction, ike Me SabbatI
Maa LalC, destructive to the cause Of temper.
aace.
Il has not done it in Maine. It may not
DO 1t elsewhere we are willing to trust it.
XIV.
A goes too far, and erclHdes he teYapeyate az
aoet aS tHtemperate from he purchase and nse
Of Intoxicating drinks.
~ goes none too far for the good of the
community If it restraints the temperate.
u may prove for their own benefit and the
benefit Of their children, as well as the sal.
Vatlon Of the drunken. Philanthropy, pa.
triotism, and religion call for It.
XIV.
II prsDsnts free trade.
30 DO all license laws. No man has a
right 70 sell without license, and ii the State
may forbid ninety-nine in an hundred from
selling, because the good of the community
requires It, on the same principle, they may
XVI.
Nditfranckises he fTeemen lfas STATE: de-.
pTiUes them Of their Ttohts.
Nights % prey upon their fellow men
take their money and give them no equiva-
lent NIL up poor houses, and compel the
people to support them. Liquor sellers
rights |
XVII.
II S0LI dytDs our trade 10 other States.
What if other States should adopt the
Maine law-what then Would it not bring
their trade for rum here Surely the liquor
sellers Of New York would vote for that.
XVIII.
We haze lao enough, AOw.
Yes, full enough to protect liquor sellers
in their business, but none to protect the
people from their poisons.
XIX.
II lOiH fill te land nth blood.
Not half as much as rum has. Sixteen
murders have been committed in year, in
the city Of New York, through rum. Two
or three lives could be afforded in this con-
fict.
Xxx.
II IS sheer taHGttcism.
So is every law which breaks up counter
feitings piracy, forgery, and which would
abolish war and despOtism in the world.
XXI.
The styiageRcy Of the laD l0oald ercite sy7l-
pathy for the liquor sellers, and greatly increase
tnte1npeTGnce.
The experiment has been made-the ven
der finds no sympathy. The war is made
not upon him but upon his liquor, as vile
and worthless. The drunkards forsake his
shop, for he has no liquor wherewith to
treat. And leftalOne, he quits the business
as the business has quit him, and then he
finds sympathy in the rest of the commu-
nifty.
XXI.
Moral suGsiON is greatly preferable
Moral suasion is good in its place; pecu
liarly applicable to the poor inebrate; ap
plicable to the honest liquor dealer, but o
no more efficacy in destroying the rum trade
than it would in destroying counterfeitinG
and gambling.
XIII.
II is nlingling temperance and politics.
How, more than all excise laws, it is diff
cult 10 tell. 1t is but new way of legis
lating 70 prevent intemperancs. If it intel
fsres with the political elevation of some
its opponents, it is not the fault of the Law
If it secures that election, they may not 81
riously object. Rum and politics have lon
had the ascendency, and how can any rea
sonably complain, even if there should be
union on the other side, if it is for the goo
of the people.
XIV.
The remO0aI Of the traffic from the cOmmunit
tCouId be the breaking up of one Of the creates
sources Of human health, comfort, and sOciO
} enjoyment.
} Who hath wo who hath sorrow VIII
hath wounds? who hath babbliugs withou
cause 2-the teetotallers or the men blesse
with the traffic Let jails and poor houses
and drunken, brawling families answer.
XIV.
J It iOiA stop off and reform all our dTuRkard
and hard drinkers; break up the Shades; kee
our young men from their smGshers and sherr
cObbleys ; stop ,oife-,ohipping and murders
make Sunday sober day, and bring on, betoT
the people are halt ready for them, the days Q
the Mileaium
This objection is perfectly unauswerable
Even so, Amen.