Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1853-11-02
For the Grant County Herald
A Reply TO S. MalsOGd.

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Some Of your reasons for not vo-
Ting for Prohibitory Liquor Law are
not very clear TO my Apprehension; but
as invited my fellow citizens TO give
reasors, il they had any, | will say few
words about them:
| /. "A scheme TO abridge civil liber-
! ty." Is il part of civil liberty to be
ALLOWED 10 sell tainted meat or other poi
sons? Ii not the proposed Law does not
abridge it.
2. Malignant feelings between neigh
bors.'' No, Sir; it will diminish them.
Common sense and experience prove it.
The Sale of intoxicating liquors is the
most prolific cause of such feelings. A
bate il, and they will be abaed
8. Oppressive" No; il is protect
tive; but ii deprives no man of any pro-
perry or privilege that he has righ,
TO. No man has any right to iniure an
other to advance his own interests; and
this is all the Law forbids. The right
10 do this, ii does not grant to corpora
tons.
| 4. ut prohibits tie manufacture of CT
DER, VINE. ard small beer" No, at all.
'hey may be made and sold when new
Tor ausht the law says !; for they are moi
Intoxicating then. You may make cider
and sell it before it termen,s /; or keep i,
till it becomes vinegar, and then sell it..
When it would make men drunk it sho d
not be drank, and may not be sold for
that purpose. True .ssma!l beer" is so
weak that mans stomach would no.
hold enough To make him drunk, and
therefore II is not properly called intox-
lcatiDg. II does contain alcohol aud SO
does bread; but SO little as not to intox-
icate.
D. It's relationships stwin BROTHER
&c. do not know nor believe, that you
have amy evidence that il is related as
you aver. "Wili be disregarded." -
Not by good citizens for they obey the
laws OF the State, if they do not require
us to DO wrong: and certainly it is not
SIN to abstain from selling what causes
more murder, theft, contention, accidents,
Insanity, and poverty, than all things
else: which facts prove that liquor does.
IL IS regarded III most parts Of Maine,
Massachusetts and Vermont and the,
like il we'll. So it will be here, I be-
iieve.
b. majority Of users good citizens
Yes, if you call the robber a good citi-
Zen because he pays his taxes and lives
pcaeably with his near ncighbors NO,
otherwise. They may be good citizens,
except--and except: but no man who
uses Intoxicating drinks, is SO good cit
lzen but that he should be better. His
use OF such drinks is injurious to the
community inasnuch as it tends to
spread bad practice among his fellow
citizens practice causing p verify, dis
ease, misery, crime and death.
Z. Law should protect 1.-The rights Of
temperats'' men. Well, this is just what
we want the law to do. We want ii to
protect the temperate from being tempt
cd to become Incorporate by the offer of
liquor for drink. No man knows that
he and his friends are safe, who drinks
a little and lives near groggery. We
want To protect all our people from those
who would sell them poison. That is
all and now | ask you, ought we not to
do il
! hope you viii understand the Law
better before voting day comes, and be-
fore you write or talk more about It. If
you get it, and examine j, canslidly, You
viii learn TO view it differently from
what Jon now do, if yon do moi even
like it. Consider it, and its humane OBJ
Ject, and salntary effects, as testified bv
the people Of Maine being increasingly
in fayo:- Of it !; and hope you will vote
for it. " CIvIs.