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

sale to drunkards; and they, with scarce.
II ~ an exception, have, in utter contempt
OF that righteous and necessary provision,
Il filled his bottle or glass. Laws hereto
fore existing have forbidden the sale of
H liquor TO minors, They have poured out
liquors to very boys, and sent them reel.
ing home to afflicted parents. Former
laws have forbidden the sale of liquors
on the Sabbath. Rum.seIlers have made
the Sabbath holiday. In some in
stances they have indeed closed the
front doors Of their shops in seeming
regard for law, but only 10 open another
in the rear to admit their thirsty custo.
mers.
Having trampled upon all former laws,
It is interesting to hear them now com.
plain OF the present law as likely to beget
in them and their friends contempt for
law. Oh, ye twin devils, Avarice and
Rum, to what contemptible shifts ye
impel your votaries !!
at favors class. The rich man, who
can buy from the government stores of
the United States, is projected. The law
is not against him."
The rich man, should he attempt to
retail liquors bought "from the govern
ment stores" would be Just as much ex-
posed to the penalty Of the present law
as the poor man. That he may buy and
drink in his house, is true; and if any
class is to have an entire monopoly of
the elements and consequences of tip
pling and drunkenness, let il be the rich,
by all means; for, terrible as the curse
may be in the home of the rich, it is still
more terrible in the home OF the poor.
To the family of the rich man, drunken
ness brings shame, alienation Of affection
and destruction OF domestic enjoyment !;
but, added to all this, it brings to the
home OF the poor, destitution OF the ply
sical comforts, and often of the necessa-
ries Of life. Wealth affords advantages
to violators of any law, for they can
herewith fee able counsel, whose in
genuity may enable them TO break through
its meshes; while the poor violator OF
the same law may, without such aid, be
caught and punished. No law or other
arrangement of society can prevent the
rich man from possessing advantages
over the laboring poor Did not your
license laws "tavor class" to the injury
of the whole community, ye hypocriles
''lt has cost the State half million Of
dollars in law suits"
Uttelly false! If il were true, how
ever, it would be pertinent to inquire how
much the liquor traffic has cost the State,
by burdening it with pauperism, crime,
idiocy and insanity, and by the destruc-
ton of property through the recklessness
and incompetency of the men it has bru-
talized? We will make the pockets OF
obstinate violators pay in fines and costs
to the treasury more than the expenses
of crushing the system. In Portland, the
fines and forfeitures have more than paid
expenses of prosecution.
"It has poured out the vials of hatred
and alienation upon towns and neigh
boIhoods."
We wonder if the liquor business has
poured out any "Vials of hatred and
alienation upon towns and neighbor-
hoods?' You should be careful, gentle
men, how you talk about vials, hatred
and alienation, lest you should compel
some of your readers to think about
bottles, hatred and alienation.
"It has started more than two thousand
lawsuits in this Commonwealth"
And the work, you will find, has but
just commenced, if you do not cease to
violate the law.
"It has walked up from the mire Of
their own sloth the most poisonous rep.
tiles of society, spies and iniormers."
Gentlemen of the Boston Rumsellers'
Association, if you will set about "waking
up" your customers from the "mire,S
and cease to send poisonous reptiles into
society, there will be less occasion for
good men to watch your proceedings and
inform against you. Until you do, YOU
will have frequent occasion to declaim
against "spies and informers.''
Il HIt has paid a per centaga nm faIsehool