The Ohio organ, of the temperance reform. (Cincinnati, [Ohio]) 1853-1854, 1853-10-07

r blng drinks are annually fufuiehln
the drunkard's grave with 5000
victims. Prom ell ranks in societl
these victims are prepared: men ii al
classes and conditions are therefor
interested in the subject
What do we propose todo3 Enact
the Maine Law. But have we moi
4 got laws now that If executed would
remedy the evil; and why ask for more
laws till those on the statate.book are
triedi To all this sort of pleading
we say that we have been legislating
on this subject for years trying to
regulate the sale ofintoxicating drinks,
and we might as well have introduced
disease by statute and tried to regulate
its action by law. Till the Maine Law
was enacted, and executed, all laws
proved afajlure:t wsl g
This is the only efectual law that has
ever been passed, and it is the only
one that rumsellers are afraid Of. II
not only lays the ak at the root, but
it tears up the roots themselves.
What IS the Maine Law? It is "an
act for the Suppression Of drinking
houses and tippling-shops." We
should be glad to see the drinking.
house or the tipping-shop that is not
an unmitigated curse to the neighbor.
hood where it is LOCATED. If a
nuisance of this sort were planted in
your immediate neighborhood only
few doors off, may Be would you not
do all IN your power to abate the
nuisance, and would you not think it
unkind in your friends and neighbors
not to lend you the aid Of their in
fluence to do it, There are probably
thirty thousand neighborhoOds in This
State cursed with a grog-shop. To
seal up all these fountains of death is
work worthy of our best efforts; and
we speak with confidence when we
say that if all the prolessed friends
of temperance and religion in the
State will unite in the effort they will |
secure this result at the fall elec-
tions. To effect this there must
be perfect harmony, all party consid- /
erations must be laid aside, and the
Maine Law be the only issue. /
The enemies of this law are very
active and ingenious in nissrepresen-
ting its provisions, and thus prejudi-
cling the public mind. The friends of
The law should canvass every school
district in the State, explain the re-
lulrements of the law, and present
The splendid results it has wrought
out In States it has been enacted
fhe great struggle in Maine was had
when the next leislature after the one
hat enacted the law was elected. In
hat campaign, clergymen took the
lump, and everywhere threw all their
influence on the side of the law. The
esult of that election made the law a
xed fact for that State, and gave
cart TO the friends of the cause |
the union. We hope to / /
ee the clergy of this State take an !
ctive part in this temperance question !
uring the fall campaign. S
The Maine Law works admirably n
variety of ways. Where it is ex- b
'uted it shuts up all drinking-houses n
nd tppling-shops, and thus removes @
ON the miserable drunkard all tempt Il
Jon to drink arising from looking n
the wine when it is red. An un. D
rtunate young man of this class ci
id to the writer when the subject d
as before the people of Maine, that m
} hoped the law would pass; that he v,
anted the accursed stuff put out Of d
ght and reach; he could not control
mself when it was within his reach.
hose who have never experienced
e noWpr of this anSaafSto 80. - - III = =