The organ of the temperance reform. (Cincinnati, O. [Ohio]) 1852-1853, 1852-07-02
DARLINGTON without a Differences.

Distinction without q D1neFence.
There are many who look upon such
lotels as the Burnet House in Cincinnati,
{ Girard" in Philadelphia, "Irving' in
New York, "Reveren in Boston as places
where the vice Of intemperance receives
no "mateial aid.n But they greatly
mistake. The more genteel and fash
ionable the saloon where intoxicating
liquors are sold, the more injurious and
ruinous it is to society. These are the
upper rounds of the ladder leading from
the elevated walks of life to the degrada-
ton of the subteranean grog-shop. VISIT
the lowest haunts OF dissipation in any
of our cities, and yon will find there
ragged and wretched customers, who
were, but few years ago, the polite and
genteel guests of the best hotel in the
place. The Buruet house has not yet
been in existence long enough, but if ten
years hence you would find the aristo-
cracy of the toddy stick Of to-day, you
must seek the survivors in the dens in
" Cassilly's Row."
If living al all ten years hence, you
will find that hairy tipped, corseted, gold
ringed, broadclothed dandy, who, at the
dining table this day called for a bottle
of Heidseik, in some foul, polluted der
of infamy, dressed in miserable rags
and glad to get the meanest kind OF whls
ky to appease the cravings of the appe
tite now forming. There is no arlstoc
racy in intemperance. At whateve
point it commences, its progress is eve
towards the gutter and the grave. Thorn'
are prepared for the pillows of the ricl
in the splendid 5ar-room OF the third
street palace, as certainly as the loater is
finished in the eight by ten doggery in
Hells half acre." The one is the prim'
ary school, the other the college. There
never was a more absurd and ridiculous
idea than that respectable tavern with
a respectable landlord and decent liquor
was no injury to society. The one exists
as thing desirable, the other as a neces-
sary consequence of the thing desired.
There never was nor never will be a
"Bumet House" without a William
Tell" nor " Bank Exchange" without
t'BulPs Head" and so on down, until
you reach the suburbs of the pit. All
the laws in the world, with the best Judi
cial and executive officers, even commits
stoned, cannot suppress the last where
the first is permitted to remain. The
point at which the Maine Law must frs
be enforced is at the top of the inclined
plane, the starting place in the career o
iniamy, Laws never have, and neve
will, and never can regulate the lquo
traffic, Or keep it within prescribed limits
As we'll attempt to regulate the lire
belchings OF Ena, or give direction
the resistless tornado.
We have seen recently decision {
Judge in Philadelphia, in reference I
selling liquor on Sunday. He says tha
a tradesman or mechanic has just as goo
a right to sell dry goods, or work at hi
trade on Sunday, as the liquor-seller ha
to sell drink. Well, nobody doubts this
and yet what law requiring the Sabbatl
to be observed, was ever regarded by ;
knight of the toddy-stick. The merchan
would close his store without reference |,
any law on that day, but the tavern-keep
er, even though his license to sell wa
conditioned upon his closing his ba
would pay no attention to it. Shall NJ
trade that can be regulated bSno law
, human or divine, cease to be followed
5 this land where the people are sovereigI
r There is a distinction between gro
shops, but there is no difference. The
f are all nuisances, from the highest to II
. lowest, and they must, and will be alb
ted