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

~ honestly II makes them criminals
and It poison. The gentleman VII
used TO get up capital suppers fof q
when we were at Bowdoin, and VIII
now keeps an excellent hotelfthe Elm
N woody at WaterYille, told us last sum
mer that the law made liquor.sellnt
such mean, scally business, that b,
had not a thought of containing It
The sale Of liquor contrary to law L
driven from respectable associations
and none but those who are lost to ali
sense Of decency viii go where it i
to be had. a9aa34 ealif
Years ago, statistics showed that
rum filed our alms-houses, prisons,
and penitentaries with two.thirds Of
their inmates; the Maine Law demon.
strates that cold water viii relieve
those institutions Of large numbers Of
their teAantry--an nrgumentfor hydro
pathy we have never seen used. Only
the short time the law has been in
operation in Vermont, il has emptied
three jails; and we hear from various
directions that towns have no further
nse for their alms,houses. Last sum.
mer and autum we trayersed Maine
from Calais to Kittery, mostly on the
sea-coast, and during the FIVE months
we were in the State we did not see a
person drunk. Everywhere good
order prevailed, and we saw there in
dustry and enterprise which it would
not be easy to parallel. "a gentleman
at Belfast told us that they had des.
troyed $4,000 worth Of liquors; and
said he, "If by. chance we have to
pay for liquor, it will still prove a
good operation, for by breaking up
the traffic we have saved to the town
much more than that" We could
cite individual cases of men who had
wasted their time and money in drink
ing, and whose families were dependent
on friends for support who, by the
necessary action Of the Maine Law
have been completely changed in their
habits and circumstances-are sober
and industrious men, and take care of 4
their families. The law works like |
magic; and it does SO because, it is !
in harmony with Gods laws in rela-
ton to us as individuals and as acting
in the social state. For this reason. /
hose menwho have healthy conscien
'es and their hearts in the right place, \
'ut have been preiudiced against the \
aw, when they see how benefcently \
t works. are Immediately converted II
md become fast friends Of the law. II
Ne doubt if there ever was human
tatute framed which, by its inherent
xcellencies, won to itself 50 many
Pponents. Rumsellers know this, Il
nd hence it is they get so excited at \
be slightest allusion to the law. II
Partnership in Crime. -r'I.
Nor shall the place be forgotten in
-hich occurred this shedding Of blood, \
was one Of the thousand ante cham.
ers of hell, which mar, Ike plague I,
'ots, the fair face Of our State. Ycu
eed not be told that Imean tippling
meeting-place of Satan's
inions, and the foul sess. pool, which,
spontaneous generation, breeds and Il !
lnures all that is loathsome and dis.
lsting in profanity, babbling, vulgar i
Y, and Sabbath breaking. | would / /
It be the owner of a groggery for the i
ice of this world converted into pre-. t
ous ore. For the pitiful sum Of Y
me he furnished the poison, which, t
ade the deceased a fool, and con- b
rted this trembling culprit into
mon. Ea 9
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