New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1852-04-10
TEMPERANCE AND POLITICS.

o,d Man 10 resist the farther legalizatlon
snd protection of the Rum Traffic have TO-
peatedly appealed, and still appeal to
those who oppose our efforts to unite with
us in taking the question out Of Politics.
For we are members of our respective par
ties, as they are, and reluctant as they
to participate in any action which divides
and defeats those with whom we have hIth-
erto acted. Therefore we have urged our
antagonists on this question to let 1t be
taken out of the Political arena by de-
Gberate Submission to the People at an
election or general poll to be held specially
for this purpose. They say habitually-
The People are not prepared tor such
stringent legislation as you requre-they
will not sustain it, Gentlemen we re-
ply, that is one of the questions on which
won and we are at variance--neither you
NOR we can decide it for the adverse party.
THE PEOPLE alone can say conclusively
what they will or viii not sustain-let
them settle it ! Join us in procuring
submission of the Maine Law to direct
vote of the People if they vote it down,
I'VE agree to drop it; if the vote sustains
it, we shall expect you to help us uphold
and enforce it's not that fair
But no. say the Rumsellers and their
attorneys, I'VE know trick worth two
of that. If we consent to a submission
to the People, we shall be beaten; but in
packing Conventions and forcing nomina-
tons, we can beat you two to one. We
scan nominate the candidates of both
parties in any city or village District
where we can rally third of the voters.
Then we can raise the cry, Support the
regular nomination = No splitting"
&c, and elect one or the other of our
men. You DON'T catch us throwing away
'our advantage by consenting to an appeal
to the People
Thus Gov. Seymour pocketed Resolve
of the last Legislature of Connecticut pro-
viding for q submission to the People of the
question of Prohibition or No Prohibition
of the Rum Traffic; and now Rum, taking
advantage of the sorceries of Party, has re-
elected him. So the last Legislature OF
Rhode Island shrunk from and negatived
a submission of the Maine Law to the Peo-
ple So in Massachusetts, that section OF
the bill, as drawn by its friends, which pro-
vides for submission to the People, has
been stricken out in the House, on the mo-
ton of an opponent, and by the votes of
nearly or quite every adversary OF the meas
ure. In New Hampshire, we see premon-
itory symptoms of similar course. And
now in our own Legislature, we find the
enemies of the Maine Law fighting the
submission clause desperately in the Sem
ate; and yesterday it was stricken out of
the House BILL on motion of Mr.. LUCKEY
(of our IXth Ward) by a close vote-all
the enemies of the measure, who insist
that it would not be sustained by the Peo-
pie, doing their utmost to deprive the Peo-
pie of any chance to speak for themselves
on this vital point.
We'll, gentlemen opposite you can
drive us into the Fall Election if you will.
We do mt want to go there, but if you al
low us no other chance-if you fix it so
that the People cannot obtain the Maine
Law otherwise than by electing Legisla-
ture pledged to it-they must try that. 1t
may take more than one year to do it; it
may derange parties and disorganize Dis
tricts, but that is no fault of ours. You
force the issue upon US, and on your heads
be the responsibility