Smyrna times., 1854-09-20
Restriction vs.. Prohibition.

sue PVestioh as ne understands himself brings
forward a prodigious budget of gums, pistols.
bowie-kniyes, disiilleries, broken hanks Sc
&c, and thinks undoubtedly they will do it
ihese are rather strong arguments we admit
and IN the hands of adopts, would be DANCER
Gus expressions of opinion!" We cannot
wonder at the association, however, when we
remember the adage, +" Like has an affinity for
tlke rum aud lis supporters, guns, pistols and
oowie-knives being united in one brotherhood
ciples: '''"' r III
Ave consider drunkenness an evil and .,
SUBJECT for legislation.
I'VE oppose the principle of probibition
w eare In favor of restriction and n scale of
penalty. =. '''''' "'iu " scale OF
we consider it wise policy, when REMOVING
healthful matter. ''eN''u oy
we consider the temperance question. as
now agltated, IN no wise connected with nortv
aho Lhe efforts Of no leader in politics can con.
meet party with it." N'"-
these are the five cardinal PRINCIPLES on
winch are based the six columns which arc in
aited with such labored study and effort. to prove
taai DRUNKENNESS Is an evil, and a fit subject
for legislation" but is the first to aDnlv tho ec
PEI 10 any man who would dare say LAW! In
o'her words, drunkenness is fit subject for
legislation, but Is, in no way, connected with
Poiltlcs-lt ought to be legislated upon, but no
politician or legislator, in his Legislative cana.
city, should dare touch it.
lie considers it "wise policy, when removino
q disease. tn Sunnlv
heailhiui matter. Here is an anomaly we
cannot understand. He admits it to he a dis
ease, lncurdble, of course, as it has to he renoy
eu--tnlfks the vacuum should be supplied with
healthtul matter. but, with assiduous labor nm
dertakss to prove it the best tonic in the mod;-
cal practice! II: declares it malady which
should be removed, but feeds il on itself I'm nor
Petnate Its life. we readily admit its qualities
as a tonlc' to be of surprising strength for some
diseases-we challenge the whole list of mod
clnes TOR superior: 1t is naoace, f,r al
the lllegitimate diseases Common to ,,onl;,L
aha Ia no instance, when well taken, has if failed
I" accomplish the desire of the prescription II
iuHy sustains Its reputation every year-thirtv
Thousand deaths occur annually from its uso
~ is the universal "tonic" for tayernond stro,.
orolis-it 10 the usual tonic " for murdor r;,,
ann assassinatlon-for suicide it is very valua-
Sle' and'r Tor election of widow and ornhan
iears' has no equal. To bring riches to pover.
tyB plenty to want, honor TO dishenor. resnect.-
oiii'y to disgrace, and for turning happy home
mo miserable one, there is no better :. ton;c"
Ia the wide world. He wishes TO sunpIv tho
vacuum created with healthful matter, by pla-
eng the same corruption in the vacuum Thus
created
Inns business of supplying q substitute is
just what the temperance men have been Iabor-
ing after Tor years, and have, we think. hit unon
remedy namely: COLD WATER. We will
not exert ourselves to prove the practical bene-
nj oi ms rcmcdy-all We ask of our opponents
is, to give tia trial: we mean fair and honor
a1le one, hot for one or tpO doses merely. but
ior time long enough to perceive its benefit.
The Editor Of the Reporter thinks the sale of
alcohol should be continued as it is frui,tnI
source OF revenue. True, it may bring in,othe
treasury few thousand dollars. but while il i
running in like gentle brook, is il not emntv-
ing itself like sluice gate! Where * the
oeneht OF this revenue to the people! Is our
treasury IN reality replenished, and is the COM
munIty the better for this kind of deposit -
Are not nearly all our criminal cases in court
ihe legitimate offspring of licensed rumselIinr!
And would not our court, JAIL and almshouse
expenses, be much curtaied by abolishng the
rum traffic Judge Harrington in his address
to the jury, at the last term of New Castle
Court said " IL the. crimes committed BY in
toxicated persons, or BY persons whose passions
imd been stimulated, on whose consciences have
been supplied by intoxicatilrx2iquor were struck
out there would be very little left of that black
record of crime which for more than twenty
years past have kept in my notes of the pro-
csedings Of this court"
Certainly, the greater part of the State ex.
penses is caused by this great source of revenue
which the Editor so highly appreciates. The
other side OF the subject is LETT untouched. of
course, as it has not the least show OF an arpu.
meni, VIZ Vie corruptlng and demoralizine in
nuence. i has upon the community at large
The very liquor which brings revenue into the
treasury, is preparing a subject for the gallows,
for the jail, the almshouse, for the grave, ave
for perdition. Look at the absurdity Of such an
argument!
Gems. pistols, swords, bowie-llniyes, &C., arc
referred to next, as having their "uses and
abuses equally as proper and equally as often
sive and destructive as intoxicating liquors. -
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