New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1854-01-16

,;,,,r. tho child Of Ia parent! the wife OF her hus
h.a ,v;ry sorroyv stricken willows dfc0nsosie moth
A.. ard be,olc children 70 an rnfesng world and tho's
,,up.t;ops th.t make criminals Of the drunkaris sons
and prostitutes his daughters This BIZ proposes to save
f,om thirty 10 fly thousand drunksris in our Ssie
their wives ard children from the awful fate 20 which the
Iauor Trade has doomed them and to brak the charm
by removing the temptation from thirty fy thousand
more of our fellow citizens who moving on surely to
Ell the drunksrds ranks many Of whom NOS earnest
IN their calls upon this Legislature to stop irsc aeeursed
Of God and ell good mea.
P4ss this law and your Committee of opinion ,ha
will pu, an end to three ourths Of s the crimes against
rfrsous and property now committed The testimony OF
the Wardens of prisons uniformly affirm that aileast
euhs of the criminals confined brought there on
account Of the use of intoxicating Drinks
Your Committee do not propose to recommend further
taxes upon the good people Of this State in charging and
multiplying their prisons erecting gibbets and invening
new forms Of torture TO deter the wretched victims OF alec
Ol from the commission OF crimes but by simple and
easy process relieve the State OF heavy taxes and save 50
cety from crimes by prohibiting the sale OF TINS poison as
beverage.
Neither is this bill submitted by your Committee
s,ntuarv one II does not prescribe the drink OF any
II merely prohibits the sale beverage Of that when Is
wholly noxous and in this respect conforms with the spirit
some food
The objection that other rights invaded by this law
we sui nit is not true for has right TO inlet on
the community the evils with which this traffic curses so
cety The sancty of every mans dwelling is secured to
him lie there left to the indulgence Of his cup not be-
cause right but because law but the moral law eau
there reach him
Your Committee admits bat the State should protect al
valuable ard nnoxous property but her best property
in tie morality and intelligence Of vriuOus people The
State had property in the minds Of Fulton and Clinton
1t is to such properly the State its prosperity, snd is
Of more value than all the gold of California This nval
able proporty-,his mind and muscles daily, yea, hourly
rendered useless or destroyed by something styled proper
ty which we are called upon by certain persons to protect
ard which less worthy of protection than the murderers
il makes
The cbectors to Prohbtcry Law think it is awless
get TO knock in the head of whisky bear barrel but
what is the value of such property when compared with
the muitudes of human beings that destroyed by the
traffic in intoxicating Drinks Better destroy the poison
than let destroy the nobest nteects in our and-men
of genius talent energy enterprise and moral worth now
laid waste by this desolating scourge.
Your Committee would call the attention of the Lcgsa
ture to the healthy operation of PTohbory Law in those
States where il has been enacted diminishing greatly
Drunkenness Pauperism and Crime. Jals and poor
houses are e and the peace and good order of the com
munity greatly promoted.
For several years the people of this State have pottoued
for a Prohibiiory Law. They have recently spoken
through the balobOx and your Committee believe they
will continue thus to speak. unless PIohibiory Law,
meeting and remedying the eyilscompained Of sprOmpty
passed and fairly tried
We therefore respectfully present the following bill and
recommend its passage.
C. c. LEIGH, L. GIBBS,
LEVI HARRIS, Il. HALL,
j MITCHELL. Committee