Glasgow weekly times. (Glasgow, Mo.) 1848-1861, 1854-06-15


drunken husband and father in fit of de-
lirum. But we have not time TO examine
! them.
Returning, we will look again upon the
first specimen. The agents of the law have
been completing their work, and now he Is
a finished job. In a fit of delirium tre-
mems he is bound to his bed. One moment
you may see him weeping and laughing,
you may hear him cursing and praying: the
next, with a scream of terror, he starts
back upon his bed, and tells you that the
room is full Of devils, and piteously begs
you to keep them off. Now, he tears open
his clothes and tells you that serpents are
coiling about him, and asks you to take them
away. You cannot help him, and he calls
upon absent ones-upon his father, whose
grey hairs have been brought with sorrow
to the grave; upon his mother, who long
since, with a crushed and bleeding heart,
left the earth and went to heaven; upon his
sisters, who loved him, and embraced him,
and wept over him. But there is no relief
for him. Exhausted, consumed by the fires
Of alcohol, he sinks into that ''lake of fire
prepared for the devil and his angels"
Such are some Of the specimens, manu-
factured, according to law, By those engaged
in the liquor traffic, and for such work as
this, they enjoy the blessings of our glori-
GUS constitution. Some such specimens
have been manufactured in Howard county.
and the operatoss ought TO have full credit
for their work. repeat it, these operators
are acting under law; their business is au-
thorised by the State. The State is the pa.
tron of the Agricultural Society, and there
fore it would but be courteous in that So
ciety TO offer premiums for the best spcci-
mems produced in this department of enter
prise. q
The Temperance men say they intend 10
elect men to our Legislature who will enact
law to prohibit the liquor traffic and there
by suppress this department of enterprise.
But don't know that that would be m
constitutional? What right has our Le-
gislature, acting under the constitution, 10
enact laws FOR the protection of the property,
the peace, the health, and the lives of cur
citizens? know that the Supreme Court
of Michigan has pronounced prohibitory
law constitutional. The Supreme Court Of
Maine, and Of other States have done the
same. Chief Justice Tanev, Of the Su-
preme Court of the United States, with a
majority Of his associates upon the bench.
have declared that law to prohibit the lq-
uor traffic, may be enacted so as 10 violate
neither the constitution of the United States
nor the constitution Of any Of the States
Indeed, | do not know that any Supreme
Judge has ever given contrary decision.
But what weight should the opinion of Su.
preme Judge upon constitutional law have
with me? Do not knOw that they are all
wrong? If prohibiory law should be
passed by our Legislature, expect our Su-
preme Court would decide it constitutional.
and we would have to abide by it. Then
we should have no more of those beautiful
and desirable specimens described above
Let all who believe that the whole Judiciary
OF our country are mistaken, vote for candi-
dates for the Legislature who are opposed
to prohibitory law, and especially let them
vote for those candidates who have so little
regard for the sacredness Of the ballot box,
that they will treat men with liquor as a
means of obtaining their votes.
w. NJ. r.