The Davenport gazette. [volume] (Davenport, Scott Co., Iowa) 1841-185?, 1852-03-04
BANNER AND INTEMPERANcE.

sell IN sUgut piaSeS '""o~ ~
sale abuse, personality and reckless asser
|,ions, wholly void Of. truth. The drift Q
The article, if such an abortion can be SAT-
to have aim, is to identify the Wing part,
Ior Scott county with Temperance.
The statement that We received pay to
,hc publication Of the Milne Law in OF
columns. is made out Of sswhole cloih,"-
never received nor expected to sc. on'
dime for tina, job.
The Maine Law appeared in the Gazette
exactly, word for word, as copied from The
New York Tribune, we did not alter ncI
add single syllable.
i aThe affection OF Mr.. SANDERS, for The
Maine Law dates no farther back than the
25,h OF last January" We put that in re1'
boiin, ct literatum, because we are glad &c
find one grain Of truth amid so much chati
It was Just about iha, time the Tribune was
handed US and for the first time we sa"
and read the Maine Law and from that
hour dated our affection for it. Il is moi
or custom To form an affection for, nor t.
condemn anything, respecting which we
know nothing.
Oar erudiie and far-seeing neishbor
would have his readers think that the
Maine Law dated as far back as the Mosa-
ic, at least to those laws that governed the
Modes and Persians; perhaps they will be
surprised TO learn il has been only about one
year, since NEAL Dow, the present Mayer
Of Portland, remarked to the Temperance
folks of Maine, who had found the "rum
power strong in political and legislative
for,ificn,lons'' and some Of the more timld
Of whom had said with the editor OF the
Banner, "it's n-no use, gentlemen, i
c-cau't be done,"- "Gentlemen we are all
wrong; the time to spproa ch liquor sellers.
hat in hand, saying, gentlemen, vii! you
please stop this murderoas business has
gone By. We must to The ballot box get
the power OF the State-hurl ourselves like
,hunderbolt on The traffic, and annihIlateI
il forever
Those words and the subsequent action
Of NEAL Dow are enough 10 enbalm biz
memory forever. In the language OF an
other, "Wi,h masters spirit he did euI
out. in DAY, work enough for governments
he brought into the battlefield every Of
iicer o. State, he turned Its whole artillery
against the rum Qualifications and In less
ihan six months he has swept every disiil
iery and brew-house, hotel-bar. splendid
saloon md vie groggcry, clean from the
State"
But we forgot, We were writing upon in
temperance and not on temperance. AIR
Wheeler says, We dare not state tina. he is
opposed to temperance. II reminds US OF
a remark that we heard gentleman make
in CONNIE n,ing upon Mr.. Wheeler's ''gu,-
ter" speech at The Court House. "Mr.
Wheeler says he is in favor Of Temperance!
why sir the viIest drunksrds ever knew
we're ia favor Of Temperance"
With regard to his sweeping assertion
tina: The Wing party are mass Of reform
ed drnnkards, it is too ridiculous TO merit
more than passing remark and by no
means calculated 10 elevate Mr.. Wheeler
in the estimation Of good men Of either
party.
Mr.. Wheeler aims to identify Wings
with The Temperance movement Admit
bis proposition, acknowledge that they
have coalesced, what is the logical deduc-
ton? II is plain-,hat the Democrats are
identified with lntemperance. Will not
the righteous and just Of his own party
spurn such an insnuation? The fact of
il is. Mr.. Wheeler has go, into eight
place." and has not the manliness TO back
out nor the gump.ion TO light out, SO with
every founder gets deeper into the mire.