The Minnesota pioneer. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn. Territory) 1849-1855, 1852-03-18


be found to-day in columns. Let every man
preserve and read it. We can see nothing in its
provisions conflicting with tine liberty rights Of
any man.
1t does not forbid any man from drinking H.
quor. Ifany person wants 10 use it as a bever
age in his own house, he may do it. under this
law.
1t does not prohibit the sale Of liquor. 1t only
restricts and regulates the sale Of it. The pew
er of restricting and regulating its sale, always
existed in the legislature. 1t is unquestioncd
and unquestionable. 1t provides who may or
who may not, retail liquors. and under wha, res
tricions; inst as law provides who may be an
auc,ioneer and who may not; and under what
restrictions the aucti0neer may sell.
License Of course does not issue to every man
who may ask for license, to sell liquor, under this
law, as it does practically, under the present
law. THIS is eractiy the spot where the shoe
ptnches. 1t is in the discretion Of the Board OF
County Commissioners noc, to refuse a license
to sell liquor; and every bar-keeper who has
applied for and taken license under The present
law, has acGuesed in and and admitted, by thai
act, and by his bond, the full, perfect, consttu-
tiona right in the law TO shut up his bar. II bar
keepers had ever had right to sell ligaor,
natural right, over and above the law, why did
they ever pay license: The fact is, this liquor
law does not arrogatc one iota Of pewer to res
train and regulate the sale OF liquors, which has
not always, in theory, been universally conceded
to it. Law ought not to prohibit the exhibition of
wild beasts, or the sale of gunpowder strych-
nine opium, or any thing else, further thnn is
consistent with the safety and welfare Of rhe
public. 1t does not prohibit, but il restricts, all
these things. Precisely SC this liquor law does
not prohibit, bat restcict, the sale Of liquors.
Unless utter sefShness licen,ionsness, and brute
force, are be substituted for just constitutional
laws, which throw the shield of protection over
the weak and over all, the power of deternin-
ing the necessary mode and degree Of such res
friction, must necessarily be vested in the legis-
hture, who represen, the ma orty Of the people,
especially when The majority expressly sanction
hat mode and degree of restriction. So much for
the const,nlionaiity of this law.
The policy. The wisdom, and the social ccone-
my, IN short, the expedency of the law, if it Can
be enforced, does not require discussion. We
hardly think there Is IA retailer ia this Territory,
who will say, with hand upon his heart, before
GfM and his country, that the publ c sale of H.
quogs, as ii beverage, is not blighting curse to
the land
LIQuoR SrATIsrIcs.-Av valued CORES pom
den, has sent in the following statistics, for pub
licaton.
We will only present Il few facts relating to
the amount Of liquor consumed, the money ex-
pended, and let the people Judge of the effects,
which must have resulted from the consumption
OF such amount Of alchohol. From 1890 10
l6i7 there have been imported into the United
States not less than $1,000, 600 gallons of ar
dent spirits, and not less than 100, 900 900 gal
Ions ct wine; making IN aggregate Of 5000 :
600 gallons of intoxicating drinks. In each gal
lon There are 30 cubi inches. In 80, 000, OO0
gallons, there are so, 25 ,00O, 200 OF cubic in
ches, equal to 80 90 $50 cubic feet. There
are eighty square feet d foot of canal twenty
feet ide, and ii,ur fres u-cr; now f we divide,
these cubic feet hy so, we have 4JI III feet of
canal; divide this by $3.50, the number Of feet
in mile of canal, and we have eighty five and
half miles of canal, twenty feet wide and four
feet deep, which this liquor would fill
But this is no, all. The quantity of domestic
spirits used is supposed to be twenty times as
much as the ioreign liquors imported. five add
this to the foregoing estimate, the whole quantity
consumed in the u. ). in fifty seven years. would
fill such canal 40 niles long. And all this
vast ocean Of liquor has been drenched down the
Threats OF the American people. As to what
portion of this liquor would fall to the share Of
Minnesota, you can all Judge for yourselves
But we all know, that if this traffic is not stopped
we VII consume our full proper ion Of it.
Bul we VIII trace our canal no farther as there
is water enough for canaIing; but see should this
amount be differently expended, what vast ben
ehts would be conferred upon thousands who are
now IN want. ItwCuld buy every year 4,0)0,-
900 sheep 1T 81 so each; 400 900 head Of cat
tie at 80 EACH 900 900 cows at $50 each
10 900 horses at 500 each: 500 200 suits Of
mems clothes at $50 each; COO eco boy 5
clothes at $40 each; 500, 00) women's clothing
at so each; 900 900 suits o! girls at So each
100000 barrels of flour at IS per barrel; 500,
600 barrels of beef at : 10 per barrel; $50 600
barrels of pork at : II so per barrel; 5000 900
bushels of corn at % cents per busleI; 2O0O, 900
bushels o! potat toes at 81 cents per bushel; &c.
600, 900 pounds sugar at 10 cents per pound
400 200 pounds of rice 1t 5 cents per pound and
1900 600 gallons mo lasses 40 10 cents per gal
lon
1t would also build 1000 churches at $1,000
each: support 1900 ministers 1T $500 each
build 5000 school houses at $500 each; furnish
50t 900 newspapers at 81 each; establish 5000
libraries at 500 dollars EACH. And all this
might be done in year with the money now
spent for spirtuous liquors.
NAMES OF THiNGs.-People who regard
principles rather than professions, things
rather than the names Of things, wonder
how ir is that our neighbor, the organ Of The
Wmnehago Fur Company, with his obs,i-
nate and continued opposition to equal
popular rights, comes by the name Demo
crat, as he advocates only Federalism. This
ubstitution of the name Democracy instead
of the name Federalism, for such principles
as he adv ocates-the yarious orthographi-
cal changes, by which he has trans,nognifi-