New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1852-02-06


Crnae, Vagrancy and PauPerism of that
city. We deal la figures OF arithmetic;
our a6versaries in figures of prophecy
and other loose tented rhetoric. Why
don't they attempt to meet our facts by
facts!
0. Liquors are asst As necessarily intox-
icatingn as arsenic is necessarily poisonous.
In either case, certain quantity is required
10 produce a certain effect. Some men
have constitutions which resist deadly pols-
sps 10 a marvellous extent some have ac-
CURED, by practice, capacity of resisting
poison so that they Gao swallow with ImPu-
nity what would bill three ordinary men
within an hour. So it is with Liquors;
and yetwe ksow that Arsenic poisons and
Rum intoxicates--t that these are their natu-
raj, legitimate results.
10. We take issue on this assertion and
asks Intoxication diminishing1 II 50,
where is it! Certainly not il this City,
where grogshops are increased by hun.
dreds every year; and where we cannot
build Aims. Houses and other charitable
establishments fast enough to hoh the
ever. increasing army of Paupers and Va
grants. We defy the Rumsellers TO show
us spot where drunkenness is diminish
ing, eacspt an consequence Of measures
,chicA they hare strenuously opposed.
Wherever their traffic is allowed to exert
its natural Influence unchecked, there
Drunkenness, Vice and Misery gain ground.
There is just one State where they are
really, pa]pably and rapidly declining, aad
that is MAINE. Do the toddy-dispensers
want to know why!
IL. All the Real Estate of our City must
be worth more, much more, if the Rum
Traffic were thoroughly banished from 1t,
as we hope soon to be able to prove. We
should need not fewer but more Hotels, as
more people would be able to travel if Rum
were knocked in the head. 1t now impov
erishes millions, so that their travels are
confined to the gregshop and back again,
who would visit their distant relatives aad
give their families a summer jaunt In the
country, if their insatiate appetltes for IL
quor did not absorb all they earn, and often
more. Drive Rum out of the country, and
there would be more travel, more buying
and selling, because vastly more Industry
and Production All legitimate and bene-
fetal trade would gain by the overthrow of
Alcohol's dominion.
II. We beg our Rumselling friends not
to distress themselves about the enforce
ment of the Maine Law if passed. Its
friends will take care of that. Portland
and Bangor have heard just such idle pre-
dictions, and seen them completely falsiied
by the event. We can't believe that the
Rumsellers will undertake to stir up " riot
and bloodshed" on this subject, seeing they
are all 60 fic1ve for Law and Order" when
a door Iegro is to be stolen from his wife
and children and carried off into Slavery
under cover of a statute. We beg leave
to assure them that we RECKLESS advocates"
will take care of ourselves--and of them
too if necessary. Vast multitudes of the
populace" are not such fools as they depict
them; they are silly enough to drink liquor,
but not quite such natural fools as 10 ex-
pose their lives in riots and rebelIiens be-
cause the tap is cut off. We can assure
the gentlemen opposite that there is
nothiDg " frightful" to our side in the pros
pect, and that we +" contemplate" it not only
without horror and dismay," but with hope
and eadness. It's realization may be more
distant than we could wish; but the day
which sees our noble State legally shielded
against the blight and curse Of Rumselling
will be one of the happiest of our lives.
Legislators at Albany. the arguments of
each party are before you, the eyes of the
People are upon you. Meet the response
bility like men, and rather venture on a
bold, bad course than attempt timid,
twadding, cowardly one. If you believe
the legal liberation of Rumselling cOnduces
to the Morality, Intelligence, Virtue, Com
fort or Happiness of this People, do not
fear to say SO; but if you hold with us that
all the crimes, miseries and horrors which
would remain after the Punishment of In
toxicating Beverages would be trihing in
comparison with those which have their
origin in the use Of these Beverages, how
can you hesitate The powers of Good and
Evil Struggle fercely and visibly for the
mastery the fate Of the immediate contest