New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1854-01-06
AT ALBANY.

That the Maine Law is to pass the present Legsla-
ture as promptly as due consideration of its details
will allow no one who has mingled with the Members
can doubt Coming fresh from the People, they have
no doubt to the emphatic preponderance of Prohib-
ton sentiment throughout the community. That Iu-
Temperance is disease which will itself
fire that will not go out merely because it is let alone
but that the irresistible tendency of Free Trade in
LIQUOR is toward wider and deeper moral and physical
deqradaton-are facts established by experience 40
uniform that only the obstnately needless wfully
blind can fail TO see them. The great majority of
earnest intelligent observing rejecting voters have
resolved that the experiment Of an imperative Legal
Inhibition of Liquorseling shall be fairly and promptly
tried and have chosen legislators who reflect their
sentiments and will give effect to their wishes.
Prohib,Ory Law would be passed Immediately If
the details were now settled We trust a wecOn-
sdersS bill will pass at least of the Houses next
week and the other sfterward Yet better de-
lay of month than the enactment of law which will
prove odous and imperative. There many points
tobe guarded such as the extinction OF the present Ii
censes the inhibition of any renewal of these or grant
ips of new ones the liberty to sell for purposes not
ihimca to the public welfare, &c. &c isvery easy
to say that such law should consist of two three
stCIlOnkf no huCu VIII CNCi euiiCo W
arrest so gainfu craft the Liquor Traffic. There
are many crevces 10 be stopped many legal bubbles
TO guard against Let the law extend to forty Sec
tons, if need be, so that it does its proper work
On one point all former Prohbitory Laws have been
defectiye-namely, in providing inadequate penalties
for first violation To endeavOr to stop the Liquor
Traffic by fines of $50 or $50 is ridiculous Many
sellers are making so much per day, aud will go on
selling until complained Of considering each days i'm
pupity so much clear gain The penalty for any viola
ton of this law should never be less than $780, and
for the second ofense should be backed by imprson
ment.
There is rumor fOsting about the Capitol that Gov
Seymour is considering the policy of yetoing the bill!
when passed We do not perceive that basis for this
report in the Message which some have discovered
there and believe there is other foundation for the
guess than the Governor desperate fortunes Having
nothing TO lose, he is just in the right condition to make
dash for the Liquor support in the next election aud
the luck which repeatedly attended the ventures of his
Connecticut namesakein that line may possibly induce
him to try it, We sure however that his Veto
would prevent the Laws passage at this session. and
we shall not believe him capable of so fragrant de-
fance ofpublic sentiment so gross outrage on the
moral sense Of the community, unless and until he
shall cOmpeus TO do SO.
As 10 Submission to the People opinions are about
equally divided respecting it, and the opponents Of
Prohibition can defeat ii if they 6t As we desire
to see the law not merely enacted but enforced
and believe popular ratification wouli greatly
invisorse the arm of its champions especially in the
localities where the Temperance sentiment is weakest
trust it will be accorded; but only in bill separate
from tbs. ersc.ins Prohibition. ~ aware a.;