Daily evening star. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1852-1854, 1853-06-02
For the Daily Evening Star. !
License" or mo License"


NoRKINGMEN permit the son of a
blacksmith, who is not himself a stranger
to the hammer, to say few words to YOU.
The 6 City Fathers wish to know pour
araa, in regard to the sale of intoxicating
drinks. They ask you to express it at
the polls on Monday next. And what
can exceed the interest which you have
IN this question? As citizens, as indi-
vlduals, you have right to speak and to
De heard. You earn the money which
sustalns the whole organic structure of
society. You have good reason for in
curing what comes of the hard earnings
OF your honest industry. What may
any class Of citizens carry on business
here, right under your eyes, which abb
serbs the public funds for 60 profit
which imposes three fourths Of your tQres
--disturbs the peace of the community
IN which you live, and places the health
and character, the life and honor Of your
friends and children in jeopardy, and you
no voice III the matter. That cannot,
must not be. Just at this time, no power
OF monopoly or mere class-interest that
defies your rights, can silence your remon-
STRANGE. Upon the great question of the
public funds, SO large share of which
you pay, you may now say, if you will
and | verify believe you will-No, Gentle
men: we can't furnish money to pay for
a police, more than twice as costly as it
need to be if it were not for the sale of
Hquor-we can't permit you just for your
own profits, to make orphans for us to
take care of-to make paupers for US to
teed-t0 make criminals for us to prose
cute and incarcerate.
We are aware that Government funds
pay part Of this wanton expenditure
But ire have an interest in Government
funds, and especially in those appropria-
ted to the benefit of this city, and cannot
submit to see them squandered to meet
as well as may be, the necessities pro-
duced by this vile traffic merely to accom-
MEDIATE few dealers, who, for the profits
they make out of US, confer not one single
blessing, that can be named by living
man. Blessing! Gentlemen, speak of
blessings in connection with the sale and
use ofintoxicating liquors Yes : if bloat-
ed faces, bloody eyes and noses, weak
limbs and trembling nerves, are blessings
If stupid idiocy, raving madness and
| abused honor are blessings-if poverty,
rags and cries for bread are blessings if
quarrels, oaths, screeches and blasphem-
ing, are blessings-if home in the watch
house, place in the criminals box, or in
the Jail, Or penitentiary, is blessing-if,
to have ones sons led off andmade drunk
ards, and daughters married to drunken
husbands are bltsSings-if burelaries, ar
sons and murders are blessings-then, it
is a blessing to have liquor sold, freely,
all through the land And when we want
Hly more such BLESSINGS, we'll call on v0u
and 90 to the polls and vote license /!
But as we have had about enough bles-
sings Of your peculiar kind, in our COM
munity, we shall just say, on Monday
next, no license; and we shall speak it in
a voice Of thunder, and to cell you the
truth, We, the working nofa, have just fully
concluded to give YOU fair notice that you
Inay as well get ready to SHIT up shop first
as last, for as true as the thunder follows
the lightning, we'll be down upon you
with the Maine law, if you don't stop
taxing our hard earnings, absorbing our
wages, and spelling our children, and
nterruag these ''blessings" upon as, as
You call them. Talk to geese, or one an
ether, about the blessings Of rum! Don't
| tdlt to rs!
You tell us we shall lose all the reve-
nue. from license, if we don't take care.
| \ monstr0us loss that would be, would ut
it Get $4,000 revenue from the sale of
rum, and pay out $4,000 or more Of the
peoples money to take care of the orphans,
and paupers, and criminals you make
with it! We have had just about enough
of this kind of revenue, and once again
we say IRE can nOt-ue dare n0t-,re lrlI
not sustain, so fragrant arrong.
| * So Belt.
MARRIED.,
| Last evening. at the Fourth PRESBYTERIAN
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