Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1853-10-19


Igress nor State legislatures have discov-
cred that pipes and ciggrs were as dah-
Igerous as demijohns hat eating was as
fatal as drinking to excess? The grand
difference between Intoxicating liquors.
and all other forms of intemperance has
been recognized by the common and sta
1tu,e law from the earliest ages. The law
tof 1851 exposes this difference in dark
coiors, when section 0 announces, that
the traffic will among other things, give
a man unnatural passions, make him dew
ilish- dangerous even 10 his own family.
Nobody in his senses would so speak OF
tobacco--a pipe never was a dangerous
weapon at law, but rather the symbol Of
peace. No diaboiicai passions are arou-
SEQ by pie Oh pudding, and neither courts,
congress or legislature have. eyer been
disturbed b. glaltony-an evil that has
vastly increased in The minds of some.
since they heard of the Maine Law. 1t
lis singular why the license law of the
old taiufes prohibited tie sale of liquor
TO miners under Is, but allowed them
discretion in the pantry. Certainly, the
Legislature did not know what danger
ons evil glnltony is. A criminal was
after long trial. recently convicted in
Mineral Point, Of high crime. 1t was
discovered, after tie jury had brought in
their verdict. that two of them had used
a small quantity of Intoxicating liquors,
pending their deliberations. Judge Goth
rem on this ground, was compelled to
grant new trial. Neither cigars nor
pipes in the view of the common law,
would disqual'fy jurors; gluttony would
not do it. The common law withdraws
all confidence in judges or jurors who
use Intoxicating liquors, while in the
discharge of their duties. The prohib-
lting OF the sale to Indians, under the
Ipenalty OF seizure and destruction of the
liquors, clearly shows the sense of the
wisest legislative bodies of our country
Congress will know that to alcoholic
preparations belong the exclusive pow
er and art of inflaming all the evil pas
sions of civilized as well as savage men.
The judgement of Legislators and iurists
harmonize with the opinions of Father
Mathew, DR.. Beecher and Neal Dow on
this subject. Appetite alone has driven
the Maine Law in;o me indian country i
Iout Tor this propensity III sisss.id iiave
suppressed the traffic in liquor long ago.
The common law regards intoxicating IL
Iquors as the patron OF all vice and crme.
There Is mysterious connection be-
tween alcohol aud evil which has never
yet been explained. We defy human
ingenuity to maintain vice in any estab-
lished organized form, without the pre-
sence OF brandy, wine or whiskev. The
agony and suspense OF the gambling hell
the maniac laugh over the gulph of
pecnnlary ruin, could net be endured
without intoxicating cordials. Painting
gullt cries out for alcohol The burning
shame Of the brothel could not be endu-
red without alcohol. The synagognes
OF vice would be deserted if no alcoholic
bait lured the unwary. The Punishment
OF alcoholic drinks would therefore in
angurate great Social Reform whose
cons equences will be as far reaching and
benilicent as the Reformation, or the
American Revolution. A new divinity
Is to govern the social pleasures of the
good time coming" We hail already
the voices Of the advancing age we hear
them In the rapturous strains Of Jenny
Lind, of Sontag and Julien. The soul
ennobilng taste for music is difFnsine
throughout city and country The mo-
raj drama lnstructs, amuses and delights |
the enthusiasm and EMULATION OF the
temperance meeting, proves tn II intel
iecinal s'lmnlants may be substituted for
the brutal Juror of alcohol. Crime is |
increasing as wealth and power increase.
Cur police records prove this. So crime
increased in Babylon, Tyre, Susa. But
modern civilization possesses an element
OF salvation, that by gone empires did not
possess. Christianity, and the patriotism
inspired by it, can meet the crisis. The
ooid proposition, is to suppress the traf
tic In intoxicating spirits at once trat-
fc acknowledged by our laws TO be the
fruitful source OF all vice. We cut off
the supplies of iriquity. Such is the
mission of the Maine Law. Who will
MOI vote Tor 1T at the comingssleclion p
We have heard many voters say they
care nothing about the Law-,hey are
neutral. Understand gentlemen tina,
this neutrality is but trick. They in
tend to vote against the aw-to oppose
il by all secret meaus-to vote for no
man whose secret views do moi cores
pond with their own. Maine Law men
are not as ashamed TO avow their prlnci-
pies, openly, everywhere. They will
vote for no man man unless they know
him openly to avow and advocate their
principles. Some candidates tell, they
will go for the law, if the the people 90
Tor II, We waat man who has a soul OF i
his own. We don't want to make a pa
per soul, and pasteboard heart for cab
didate. We don't want an aui omato on in
the legislature, lifting its long fingers, as
somebody else works the wires, and
squeaking yea or nay from its feshless
jaws, at the will of some puppet master
behind the scene. The yeriest liuuor
dealer in the Union-even Deacon Giles
OF Salem, knows enough of demagoeical
cant, to pledge himself TO 90 with the
majority. But who would trust such
a man TO build the glorious Maine Law