Fremont journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County [Ohio]) 1853-1866, 1854-01-14
Governors Message.

usually noticed in a Governors Message.
Taxation, and the complaints against high
taxes receives large share Of attention.
J The Importance of guarding the publ,
money, and all application Of it, by law.
The judicial department. and the New
Code.
The Penitedtiary. The Pardoning power
The Deaf aud Dumb Institutions, Idiocy
and Insanity.
Our Common Schools.
The progress of the New State House.
The Military System, The Canal Lands,
&c.
The above items all receive the attention
Of the Governor But important as these
matters muy be, to the well being aud general
interests of the State, there is one subject
which the Governor has, no doubt, intention ,
ally overlooked, which TO the State of Ohio,
Mt this present moment is of more importance,
financially, ply ysicslly, intellectually and NOR
ally, than any one, or all the topics put to-
cether, on which the Governor has treated.
[ mean the subject Of PkomBtroRr LIoroR
Law.
How was il possible for the Governor to
f,rgct this subject, when so recently the
whole State was sgilated by ito
Ahl! He did not forget it, But like many
others, he feared, tha. the mention Of it would
be unpopular.
If he had alluded to it Mt al he would
, have placed himself under the necessity of
speaking Of it, faYorabIy, or unfavoraby, and
as he did not wish to do either, he concluded
the saf st way was to give it the ego by"
r until he should BE- able to see more clearly
!. which side of the fence it would do TO "get
down on"
! Our Penitentiary, Idiots and the Insane, are
:, referred 10, and recommended to the favor
able notice of the Legislature But not
word is said with regard to the great cause
cf Penitentiary offences, Of poverty, ldiocy'
Insanity, and Murder, which has recently
been satisfactorily demonstrated by the State
of Maine, and other States, to be within the
power Of law 10 r. move If then, it is with
in the power OF legal enactments to remove
:, the greatest Of all sources Of crime, pauper-
ism, idiocy and insanity. is it not OF sufficient
- importance to claim at least passing notice,
. by him vi hom the people have so recently
: honored with the highest Office OF the State
: So much importance do the people attach to
Al: ,b,f fboy
the attention of their Governors and Senal-
: or's, from the Rio Grande to the State OF
- Maine-from the Atlantic to the Pacific. And
. yet, our chief officer passes it over with silent
: indifference, if not with contempt. But in
- order to see its Importance more clearly, let
= US look at few facts:
:. y "Tbe annual cost of pauper ism in the
: state of New York. is $7OO 900, of this sum
- upwards of 100000 is put down 10 the ac-
count of intemperance. The average number
of paupers is over ninfy thousand More
y than three fourths of all the crimes committed
in the state, can be traced directly 10 intem-
perance. More than nine tenths of all Ibe
" murders in the state, are committed under
> the influence Of intoxication. Fifteen thou
! sand persons die every year in the state by
intemperance. Most Of the business Of Crane
-, Juries, Sheriffs, Constables and the Polio,
=. system in all the cities, is chargeable to in
temperance. OF one hundred and eigh
= thousand six bundled and forty six persons
~ committed in six years and half in the city
" of New York, one hundred and forty MousanC
:. sersn hundred and eighty three. were for Of
" ~ fences resulting almost intirely from the us'
of liquor in dram shops. The controller
report for 1853, shows that intemperanee add
to the city taxes more than $4,000 every day
=, or Sl25. each hour. These are the facts
- :. with regard to the city, and state Of New
:, York The same is true with regard to th
- state of Ohio, and every other state of tn
Union, in proportion to their population, An
yet, while our Governor has occupied nearl
- one half of his message on taxation, and apo
ogzing for the high taxes Of the past yea
~ with the above facts staring him in the fac'
he had not the courage even to slude to i
'e' Though one third Of the criminals in th
"a penitcntiary are there through this accurse
DIS traffic. Though he knew, that at least lie
o' thousand victims of this Internal traffic di
10 annually, in the state of Ohio. Though h
ry' knew that the liquor traffic furnishes nearl
old all 'he business for our grand juries, sheriff
eir constables and police. In short that it is th
To- great destroyer Of body, mind and moral
ow Yes, fellow citizens your Governor knew a
ON these facts when be wrote his message; "
aid because he was not elected on this issue. i
on "opens not his mouth" Like the man at ii
u mariags'feast, be at least on this subject
ANS "speachless."
nk- = ---.o s-