New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1853-06-16
ruR m.,NR LAW AT ALsaNY.

The Rumsellers may husband their diplomacy ard
their money-the present Assembly will not pass the
Sepate's anti License BILL If this were January in
stead Of June and the Legislature were about TO ad-
iourn We believe the right thing would be done but
New York Legislature in its fifth sixth month has
become accustomed 20 Liquor questions through
glass colored BY something else than pure les
members-that is, a good many Of them-hsve less
natural tastes and less accurate perceptions than they
bad when they first reached Albany. We esteem it
moral certainty therefore, that the Senates bill sill
fail either to be defDtvely acted in the House,
10 receive the constitutional number (66) OF atma-
tive votes or will be somehos amended that between
the Hou.es it will fail to the ground. We do not ex
pect the passage Of any such act uu the People shall
have chosen a Legislature for that expre" purpose.
Yet why should it not pass The advocates of such
measure are found in every township, village and neigh
borhood of the State they count by hundreds Of thous
ands they certainly not inferior in Intelligence or
moral worth any portion of their fellow citizens They
embrace asrge majority of the clergymen, the active phi
lsnlropists of the protested followers of Christ Con
rast them with the active and resoute portion of the
adverse array and judge to which of these hosts Le
allure shouid hearken.
"But Public Opinion is not preparedisr such stringent
Legislation
That, gentlemen, is the very question at issue We
say is prepared and thereupon challenge Submission
to the People We have embodied that submission in
our bill and would rather have with submission than
without If majority shall pronounce against
sure, We will drop it for and set to work to
tighten and correct Public Sentiment But we have for
years been engaged in that work and believe
ertions have been crowned with success. We believe
majority are now ready Amen to the suppression
of the lecalized Liquor Traffic. Nay; hold that
sdresoTiss believe this also for if they did not they
would be as eager for submission are. Il is the
handwriting on the wall that appas and repes them
which makes them even hostile to the Maine Law
srh submission than Uiihoa tand bids them say with
the guilty Macbeth.
Tale any form but that
but submission is dodge" say a score or two.
dodge by acsom, from ,ehail Tue Temperance
men certainly do not dodge thereby ON the contra
nv. we provide against Others lodging. We challenge
all our fellow citizens to step with US up TO the cap
tains Office and there record themselves dtiRct, for
against the leealzston Of the Liquor Traffic Do you
call that dodgingl
Nor can the Members Of the Legislature who vote
for this bill with Submission be truly said TO dodge
Every dstiler and rumseler will mark every mao rho
10 votes Is either at heart anLquor controlled by
lie fear Of constituents who are Whosoegsr votes
for the Senate bill will be understood all hands as
voting for the end which the passage Of thai bill will
assuIedly promoIe-and ali the more because cf Sub
mission. Where is the dedgel
Gentlemen of the Legislature we expect nothing
OF you beyond the manlness of direct vo.e on the
passage Of this bill We expect TO be beaten by YOU and
only ssk the privilege OF seeing which thmOle the
"httle joker is under" You know that dodge is ex-
sctly equivalent 10 a negative VOTE and We viii take
care that your constituents shall kDes IT, Vote Us
down, as we presume YOU will, but al any rate vote