New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1853-01-10
TEMPERANCE IN RHODE ISLAND.

The friends of Temperance in Rhode Island
though cast down, are not destroyed They
feel that the blow lately dealt them from tho
bench of the u. S. District Court is q hard,
and in one respect a treacherous One--that the
Law and its expOunders should be arrayed on
the side of Virtue, Righteousness and Peace,
not on that of Revel, Rowdysm and Despair
For the moment, the Rum traffic tlourishes
like green bay tree, but they are rallying
their forces 20 give it another sweat. They
will hold State Convention in Mechanics
Hall, Providence, on the 10Th inst to DELHI
crate on the crisis and It's needs They will
doubtless ash the Legislature TO revise the
No-License law (or rather TO pass a new one)
so as 10 avoid all Judge Curtiss cavls, and yet
make the prohibition more efficient than be-
fore And We trust they will succeed
Their Temperance AdroeGte Jan Sth) says
MARK THE CHANGE
There u ~ much drinking a. there ever was the
Tummies were IN the habit OF saying ~ Us few weeks
ego We knew better and did they but they persist
ed saying 10 the next person they Just what they
bad said And some OF them undoubtedly really
argued Themselves into the belief that much rum was
sod and a. much drank under The Maine Law under
the old license law.
But marx The change now that the law il de,lsred
unconstitutional There i've groQ .hoDs where N ere
before. There are ten drunksris where there
one three weeks ago There u I've times as much
noise and ruwdym in the streets q there was before
And everybody adnl.ts y.
The rumselers themselves now adint that they have
had hard time, and many who had given MP the
secret sale, cav they were the point OF doInz 90
They could not hsve held out much longer They re
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Curtis ana there /. no reason Why they should do th
Il they were dong well enough under the Maine Law
The truth is ruIrseling Ia last legs in our
cry when Judge Curtis came 10 the rescue IatsmpeT
ance had no; died out but there very much less Of
Il than tUnneriy. The police had lttle % do The
wstchhouse the jail, and The poorholse, were telling
the story Of success. There were scores Of hsypy
families which hsd before been steepe IN wret einess
The decislou Of the learned Judge l. read with
hearty relsh 10y bis learned associate who swrys
eoncurs-snd, pres0 the tables are again turned
Rum LEI Oose Men stAgger fhrou a the stree.s So
Der men and women are insured Misery comes
home 10 hundreds Of families The wstcA house Is
nted up and The people are enabled 10 what tie law
has done
Friends OF the right msrk this change, and mark the
cause The rrnselers bad trei ~ make strangers be
heve that there drunkenness. IN our city before
the Name Law was enacted. They caunO, make hem
oesve-st least they cannot make YOU believe "a 4,
there e none now. Soon We shall Try the power Of law
again and should Be able to show ths difference bs
tween sanction and prohihinoc Gather up the tacrs
ard be ready 70 eve them TO your doubng neshborl
Rev. Mr.. Stone, Minister at large in Pro
violence, has just made his Annual Report. in
which he speaks
o; Tie rum trSe a. source Of poverty degradation
ana crime he speaks from long and close observ1.on
lie states that N Msy and June tie average number ne
osd seen drunk On the street. between Subst AMI me
brdse, on North Main and CsnAlss. was twelve nor
DAY While 1, the months Of 0e.ooer ard NoyeraEs.r
curing the operscoa Of the Liquor Law, the svcrars
nsneT per dsy was one. lis ooservstsns IN Other
para Of the city confirmed this resu, The hoorS- =,
TIE cannon BY which tie rur,hes.ea rctarie. on 80
bar room had manifested their JOY 4, the recen. dec.
o. ne Circuit Ceurt, wss 70 his $ the death kre 70
ths hopes Of thousands OF the su.erns and helpless