The Ohio organ, of the temperance reform. (Cincinnati, [Ohio]) 1853-1854, 1853-12-02

Va NuO toWl ailuOu8u tncy may uolay the
EXECUTION Of itspenaliies. Now that the
Supreme Court have seilled the question
OF jurisdiction, we advise you, gentle.
men, TO wait a few months before Won
pronounce the law failure. You NAV
be impatient under the DELAY, and 40 ara
the drunkard's wife and children, but
patience is Christian virtue, and we
commend It to your regard. Tie des.
perati0n Of your struggles to secure the
repeal of the law, too well shows your
opinion Of its efficiency if suffered to re-
main on the Statute Book. In the mean
time, borrow what comfort you can from
the fact that every Court in this State.
before whom the law has come for adiu-
dication, has given the sanction of its
authority TO its just and mercifnl pro.
visions.
We understand perfectly the game
played by this "Boston Uuion Associa.
tion." We have seen through it from
the first, and yet cannot claim on that
account extraordinary pefceptive facul-
ties, for it was but very imperfecuy con-
cealed.
There is little hope. of effecting speed
lily the repeal Of the law, as those gentle
men we'll understand, aud the game
therefore is TO make show Of fight in the
coming election, and in the Legislature
on the question Of repeal, but to depend
for final success on throwing all possible
obstruc ions in the way of a proper exc
cution of the law, and thus weaken and
ultimately destroy public confidence in it
as means OF stopping the traffic. But
your plan wont work, Tor even with all
the aids you can secure from the inefi.
cheney Of the City Government OF Boston,
the vlolators of the law will be brought
before our Courts through the complaints
Of injured individuals, scouiged aud tor
tured by the acCursed and lawless traffic;
and the Courts will Justly try the offend.
ers, and convictions will take place, with
sufficient frequency TO demonstrate the
value Of the law, and to prove to the
people of the State that all that is want.
ing to secure the end aimed at in the
enactment Of the law, is to have it pro.
pery administered. No, gentlemen, the
law will remain, and if the citizens of
Boston wish TO invite to the city the cast
off villains and rebels driven from more
moral parts Of the Stale by a sound pub
lie opinion, and the thorough and impair
lial enforcement Of the law, they can do
SO by sustaining an inefficient City Gov
ernment. Many reckless violators of law
have been added to the population of
Boston within the last two Years. The
City Government has invited them by the
course it has pursued,
Bat we come 10 the capitals of this
"Appeal," which compose about twenty
short and very pithy sentences, in which
we are told wnat the law has done. We
will briefly consider them in their order.
"It has outawed an Honorable and
necessary branch OF Commerce"
AS gross falsehood as was ever ut
tered. The law provides literally ior the
sale of alcoholic liquors, to be employed
for legitimate purposes, for all purposes
consistent with the public welfare and
safety, and "outIaws" only such forms of
traffic as minister to depraved appetites
aud debasing lust; such forms Of the
traffic as fill the community with drunk
enness and its attendant evils, crime,
poverty, disease and premature death.
"An Honorable and necessary branch OF
Commerce ~ Commerce in Mint Ju.
leps, Brandy Smashers and vile grog,
carried on in the bar-rooms and grog-
shops of Boston by honorable merchants,
with their sleeves rolled up and welding
toddy sick. Honorable Commerce!
filling bottles and jugs with liquil poi
son, for infatuated men. Honorable
Commerce! taking in exchange for rum
the scanty furniture of the dtunkard's
home. BAIL Are you not ashamed,
gentlemen, to dignity the traffic carried
on in grog shops and tippling houses,
with the appellation of "HOnorable and
necessary Commerce?" 5
"It has broken down the sacred bar
rier that guards The property OF the indi-
vidual, Many millions OF property are
at this moment at the mercy Of The pro-
higate and the malicious"
There are no fsacred barriers" that