New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1854-11-21


inhabtsnt OF toe State, in wb'ch Prohlbitory
Laws now exist in support Of thi. assertion.
We trust the friends OF Prohibition in our Rew
LEGISLATURE will embods their Inhibition. not 10
sip.le bill but in several bill. Let tue urs'
simply forbid and prescribe penalties for the
sale of Intoxicating Beverages setting forth the
regulations under which men may sell f'r Other
uses than drinking. Lettbe NEXT act embod' the
admirable principle of ,ec. Il of the Connecticut
law, by which the fact that nan Is se-n intoxl-
Gated s made proof that the law AFORESAID has
been broken, whereupoD any magistrate. sheriff.
constable or policeman is required t. arrest
whomsoever be may find intoxicated .od put him
where be will be safe until be is perfectly sober
and ready to swear who sold or gave him the
liquor that made beast of him Taen tne law
fssteus upon said seller or sellers u.es their vic
tim las witness and brings up the t,ddy dispenser
with very round turn. Under thus cau.e, it
seems an act of madness 10 sell % dru6tard or
one incliDipg far that way; even the most anprn-
cpled reckless msellers will not do il. WAT
ever else may fail, we must make sure of this.
But We want also a bill em ,odying the search.
seizure and copfscstiou principle. We have shls
already in the Indian Terrltey-good United
States Law, almost forty years old, aud never
questioned to this day. We have the same In our
Revenue Laws; We have it in our laws &, gulating
the storsge of guopo Sder in cities; in our laws
against cOunterfeitpg and others There il NJ
principle in legislation better established than
this-a man may forfeit his undeu,t-d property
BY using it in a manner and for 40 end forbidden
by the laws. And yet, there has been 80 much
judicial bemuddling of this plan principle thar
we want it embodied in q separate act, so that is
may be nibbled ut in the Legislature or the Courts
without shaking the other bases Of our Prohibit
DRY system. For while we n-ed tn, Right Of
Search and must have is. we Can still do great
deal Of good even without it
We msy without presumption suggest to those
who will be in power at Albaoy this winter that,
while /. is undoubtedly true that mucn of tho
hostility they encountered in the late El,c doa
was instiested, engineered aud paid for by the
Liquor interest, their untaiIlDg support cams for
the most part from those devoted 10 Liquor Pro-
hibition. Thousands were indeed lurei away
lIOm Ouf tisbuafus ny Posi'No ossu' ahros VI "
Clark and Rsymood we're already dofsated-thas
Ullmann and Scrogas we're tue only csndi tates
who could possibly beat Seymour and Ludlow,
and that III mann would sigs Prohibirory Law.
But, while thousands were thus cozeUe out Of
their votes, there were tens of tbous, ads who
were proof sgsisst every arndce; aod these nave
saved the Election. They were fret 60 ascertain
that the Wing State ballots had in m,ny in
stances been coDhoed to the hands of traitors,
by whom they were suppressed or buros. and
they we're prompt in their ex'rtions ~ heal the
breaches in our lines thus v,llaioou-ly m,ds.
There are many poll. at which tn ooy pecs"as
who offered Wing State ballots were Temperance
Democrats or Free Sellers; til. lste Wing esders
having all gone roy'Bg sfer UIn ,un, Ssroggs
and the rest OF the t-.selated HIntoo concern.
But for these Bon Wing TemD -rasce mrn. We
should have had no Wing Governor. vs. beg
those whe will bear sway at Albany not to forget
this fact