New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1853-03-30
NETWORK TRIBUNE.
SUPPRESSION OF GROG SHOPS.

SUPPRESSION OF GROG sHOPss
The following is the report OF the Assembly
Committee on the Interval Affairs of Towns
and Counties, on the petitions for a law pro-
hibiting the sale of intoxicating liquors as
beverage:
Mr. ?. w. Rose, from the majority of the Committee
on Internal Affairs Of Towns and Counties to which
was referred the petitions for law prohibiting the
sale or sin Of intoxicating drinks as beverage,
reports
That after careful examination of the subject have
come to the conclusion that stringent restrictive law
is The only that bs OF any to remove the
evils complained OF.
That tipping shops groggeries and bar rooms are
great evils few If any Of the present day will deny
and that law that will entirely suppress them Is
the law demanded by Jour petitioners of this Leg
stature.
The error in days past has been the attempt to regu
late what time has shown could not be duly regulated,
but could and should be prohibited.
Unlike the government of the old world, which raise
revenue by licensing vice, the moral sense Of this
community demands prohibition, and Of none more
than the vice of drunkard making and traffic which
sends annually TO untimely grave some nifty thoa
sand persoDs and and destituton their widoSs
and orphans. Drunksrd making should no more be
sustained by law than iceniiousness and gambling and
there more capital invested In this and the
business Of pauper making, than Il vested IN gambling
houses the former might Dc easily suppressed ~ the
latter.
Your Committee are aware, that a new doctrine has
recently been advanced that the Legislature has no
night 10 interfere with moral questions II this be true
he nearly all legislation must cease, tor nearly oil Of Il
has moral aspect But waving thi- question OF moral
legs alton u the duty Of the Legislature % Interfere
for other reasons and because The unresIralned use Of
info latin in
rupung the purity VI elections, and = In our whole
State the fruitful OF corruption, pzupcrism add
crime Unless facts and hgnres he unless the comics
sOn u convict and paupers are tissue OF alsehOOds,
and unless dsbeeye every sense nine tenths OF the
crime against the person. and four ihs Of the psnps
ism, and large proportion Vt taxation u this state -
clearly trneeaDle % nteup rance. Aud We ask whether
this state Of hinss TO be endured thai few may
be enriched by traffic productive only Of evil " be-
the candidates OF the gutter and the poOrhOuse
insist on the night t. ruin themseve- burden society or
dDturb is peace.
The objection that others right are invaded s not
true, Tor DO man Ls right 70 inure society and the
bill propose 10 present tor your eOnsdcTa1Ou recOg
nlZes the sancnty a every mans Dwelling there, ne
b. eft 70 the Indulgence u hs Cup-, nOt beeanse
Il right but because law but The moral law can
reach hun Your COMMITTEES have witnessed the re
medal egslaron - frequently called TOR 10 tue shape
Of asy lgns hOuses Of refuge ard other kindred nstn
uons and & hAs occurred 20 them that Il wOuhi be bet
ter 20 strike AZ the u the evil II and remove
the great which render such Institutions necessary
an " spend ALle Uslhry " Ieuirly
what cannot in this way be reneiied Ts>y submit
thai the true Is not % egste aroaad evils but
directly against them
Your Commute arr without prof OF the healthy
OyersOn Of prOhibtory Law. sisHr state has tried
one and the rerlf w. Sr s-s commitments the Jsi
and peueutaTes sHd Their poor houses nearly
antics other states have taken similar IL the
Empire state 40 fond Of the evils and burdens 81 nts-
perance that she y unwilling 20 Try AfnllsS lac. u it
70 Be believed thai such law cannot b. enforced aDdis
4 tue that the state Of New York proud Of her In
tegrry ner POWER hes patIio<sn and her Greatness
stat that knows no fear foreign foe .nd which has
Sssts has foe within her borders. waeh she dares
stack Must cay % the wives the mothers aas
daughters who beseechng for protection for theu
nre-ides that their hte msy nf he rendered more
thar orph Sns that their may Be ssvedirOn drunk
ards doom and their husbands front the Destroying
power o; t intoxicating cup, tbs; bold out 70
you no bow Of hope Add saess yor, own moral pow
er esn save them they must be lost fR though We csa
lace every ether toe ssnnot face ire serpent SD1
II the sill Il hs be the answer ths LezeiS,ure
70 the inIpiOrDE thousands who have petttoned tae
body for Law prshibirsg the trsrae W intorcssng
drinks - beVerags'
Your Cornunatee believe the people would sustain
proper sv md thst the prayer Of ne petnoaers Oags
20 BE- granted We therefHe respectfully present the
following hia and recommend Ifs passage.
P " ROSE, D. PErTEsGILL,
CHARLES T. ROGERS
The bill is essentially the came ss that sub