New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1854-06-03
APPEAL TO THE LAW-ABIDING CITIz. '"A
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SHALL RUN OR LAW GOVERN
The undersigned have been requested to act provsoo-
av until further and stronger organization may be ef-
ected as Committee in behalf Of that portion of orr
peope who desire our laws against UncenscdGrcg
shops as well rs the Illegal and consequently invalid
Licensing of Grogshops upheld and enforced As SUCH
We make this appeal.
Iii, of course known to YOU that in addition to the Six
thousand Licensed Croggeres in City last year. there
were One thousand TO Fifteen Hundred places where In
toacang Drinks sold in defiance of law, and with
but single serious effort the part of the Authorities TO
stop them. That effort being spasmodc and rcinctanuy
made resulted in the collection OF considerable number
of inconsiderabe fines and in little more Ii amounted
substantially the collection Of the usual license charge
from the of the unnaiurazed and other Raneiers
whom the Aldermen had refused to license and there it
ended.
II i now evident that the number of licenses granted
this year will be far less than that of last year. In 'ne
glorious Ninth Ward have been or VIII be graheu'
in the other Wards whcserrsent Aldermen ana 'oa"o',
men were chosen under Reform influences, ohy o"eo'"
10 oHehaf the licenses of last year nave oeen vi ae
likely TO be renewed. BY the 18th INST the humoer OF
licensed Liouor-seers in City viii have been reduced
for the wear ensuing TO about Three thousand leaving
some Three TO -Four Thousand selling without license,
hout contributing farthng to tighten the load OF your
es which they so heavily increase and in iagrant def
ance OF law.
Whit shall be done with these low-breakers'
II i idle 70 saw that the constituted authorities ongf 70
break them up OF course they ought to, and of course
they won't After hiring and generously paying one set
of men as officers TO compel obedience to the laws You
must employ and support another set to do The work othe
former or leave il undone. As sample of what may be
expected from Your funconares, tell you that the
Mayor of yonr City openly sympahized and fraernzei
with the Runseers the lXh Ward in opposition to the
magistrates who refused them farther license declared in
contempt of tho laws he elected to execute, that
man has as good right 10 sell rum rs to sell bread and
avowed that if he ofhe non-consed Rumseers,
be would 90 on and sell in defiance of the magistrates and
the laws. When man so respectable and respected as
Mr. Weserve talks like this what is 70 be expected from
his satellites who have little reputation to lose
This is no question Of Total Abstinence Of abstract
and hypothetical Temperance Ii is simply question OF
obedience or arrogant and profitable defiance to laws
which have existed for many years If only act OF
good faith those umsellers who have paid the fee and
taken out licenses the community is bound to see those
laws enforced. II whom the Authorities are afraid
or ashamed to license to be permitted to scl with i'm
punity that fact will operate premium OF $40 for each
character too infamous and each house too dsordey and
scandalous for even licensed Rumseller
For our own part our faith il weak in the praccabiy
of Moroughiy eccticey shutting up unlicensed groggercs
so long any shall be licensed We believe that licensed
drnking-houses like licensed lotteries gamng-houcs or
brohels, paralyze the moral power OF the community
which else nj ght be exered against en by ntimains
to the oose-princped and ayarci rus that not tho eV
done but the ndscreet and uncrcunspect way of doing
that il condemned and reprobated But the adversares
OF consistent and thorough Law of Prohibition from the
Governor the gutter insist that present laws would
suffice out ntcmperance and its malign conse-
quonoes # hey eye only eajoccd Why these function
aries who assert this do enforce Ms then, but chose
to leave their work private citizens who neither paid
these laws confident OF their efficacy, we
are permitted to know. Suffice that they will not DO
except by voluntary association and action Of the
People and apprehend that even those private cti-
who have the say of the efficacy of these laws
ii enforced will generally do the least toward enforcing
them.
Well: it is due to all parties that an effort should
be made that if there really be effective antidole
to the evils Of nemperance contained in present laws,
that autotc may be discovered and applied il there be
not, that the People may be assured of the fact and may
demand such further legislation the public veal de-
mands. We therefore, until more permanent aud COM
handing organization can be effected announce that we
are acting AS Provisional Committee in behalf Of those
citizens who desire TO present License Laws up
held and thoroughly enforced; that have opened
office for this purpose in the third story right hand Of
Appletons Building, No. 3i6 Broadway, late the So
oiety Library) and that Mr. Thomas L. Carson, whose
energy and experience in organizing and enforcing legal
resistance to Illegal Rumsellng, has been tried and APP
proved in many Of western Counties, will there
be found acting with and for in command
ing obedience to the laws We have decided
10 delay action until the required to bring TO JUS
tce oil the lawbreaking Rumsclers is pledged but will
work have funds in hand sufficient to
justify in doing But we hope by that time to be
pcrseded by efficient organization, chosen from the
whole body of contributors TO Carson League fund.-
and we en,rea. all who heartily favorable Law and
Order TO wait 20 be called on but transmit to
Office aforesaid their Names stating what they
respectively feel willing 10 pay toward effcctng the OBJ
jects herein set FORTH II effective support be not forth
coming shal give due notice that the enterprise
has, far concerned, been abandoned; but
shall still stand ready to aid any similar movement which
may be started by Others. Respectfully
HORACE GREELEY, THEODORE McNAMEE,
MABLON Il. HEWITT, c. G. NORTH
DEATH or FANNY FoRREsTER.-Thc death of Mr.
Emily G.. Judson took place Thursday evening Ham
ton Madison Co. after an illness Of several months. This