The Ohio organ, of the temperance reform. (Cincinnati, [Ohio]) 1853-1854, 1853-06-24
For The Ohio Organ.
Maine Liquor Law.

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ments Of search, seizure and con6s-
cation does not antagonist the consti-
tuition of d State in the Union. No
lawevef gained, in SO short a time,
such unrivalled popularity as the
Maine Liquor Law. Scarce three
years have elapsed since its noble au-
thor first read the bill before the Leg
islature Of Maine-now it is passed
by several States and warmly advo.
Gated in every State in the Union.--
1t has passed the ocean boundary of
our republic and is being agitated in
her Maiesty's domains. It has been en-
acted in New Brunswick, and in all
instances it is found equal to the end
proposed, where public sentiment has
been qualified to enforce its execu-
ton, Pauperism, misery and crime
of every shade, under its restraining
influence decreases seventy per cent.
This law should be advocated upon
grounds Of the soundest national pol
icy, as being consonant with the
plainest principles of law, and admi.
rably qualified to further the object
for which all governments are insti-
tuted-the happiness and security Of
their citizens. The law will promote
this great end. 1t will strike at the
root of the evils which curse our
country, and instead of the prisons of
our country being thronged with con
victs from this prolific source, and
their inner walls written with the his
tory of its unfortunate inmates, de.
failing the horrors of their life of
crime, and that their schooling in vice
was with the cognizance and appro-
baton of the laws which now punish
them for falling in with the allure
ments they held out. We will have
the Maine Liquor Law exerting its
restraining and prohibitory influence,
nipping crime in the very bud. by
chaining the devil that instigates and
schemes it all. The financial influ-
ence which the law would WELD upon
our country would be great. A heavy
tax is constantly being raised to de-
fray the expenses contingent and con-
sequent upon the traffic in liquors.
But this law should be advocated on
the grounds of morality. Every
moralist and Christian should favor
its enactment as the most potent aux
Hilary they could bring to bear in the
reformation Of mankind from the null
tifariOus sins to which he is addicted.
The law should be sustained on the
grounds that topers demand it. Men
whose desire is to live with their lives
uncursed and regulations ilnblasted
by the fatal poison, yet whose moral
stamina and concentered resolution
cannot Withstand the seductive infu-
ence of its presence;-these men i'm
plore the annihilation Of the traffic.
The miseries of thousands of penury-
stricken women in our State as they
bend to their checrless labors over
the midnight taper demand it in the
name of their ruin-bound husbands,
of themselves, of their offspring, and
Of their plighted VOWS, made before
heaven at the hymenial altar. Thou
sands of orphaned children in the ag-
ony of despair and want, raise their
little hands and eyes to heaven and in
the innocence Of infancy, demand it
These demands must be complied
with. ii The Maine Law must honor
the statute-book of Ohio, but it will
require persevering labor on the part
Of Temperance men. We must, as
the poet says: eas
"Onward move, by duty led
With truthful eye discerning:
Right from wrong nor backward turning
But upward, onward, straight aheadI"
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