The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1855-11-10

az Some of the Indiana Know Nothing
paper are discussing the propriety of cutting
loose from the Prohbitory Liquor Law, which
they make the scope goat for their late defeat.
~ A. Ledger.
Can the editor of the Ledger name one K.
N, paper in the State that has directly or in
directly proposed to cut loose from prohibition.
Madison Co1.
The papers least disposed to deny their
Know Nothingism, that glory in bogus Amer
icanism; the most influential Fusion papers of
the State, the Evansville Journal the Vincen-
mes Gazette, the New Albany Tribune. and
the Lafayette Courier, to say nothing of the
Indiana Journal, the position of which lisa
doubtful one, both on the Liquor and Know
Nothing questions have declared very strong
disposition ITO cut loose from prohibition"
State Sentinel
If the editor of the State Sentinrl has not
read other papers to better advantage than he
evidently has perused the Evansville Journal
he is not properly qualified to speak of their
position upon anyquestion. When the present
Prohibitory Law was enacted, we earnestly
insisted upon its having a fair trial, and de-
clared positively our intention, if upon trial
the Law did not realize the expectations of its
friends or of the people at large, Of advocating
such changes in it, as might render it popular
and good law. After trial, the law, in our opin-
ION, has been proved to contain features, seve-
raj of them engrafted in it by its enemies.
which are more calculated to injure the great
principle contained in the law than to make it
proven had better have been lett out of the
bill. We shall ere long aIlude to these objec-
tionable features in detail But we have no
disposition, as the Sentinel states, to scut
loose from prohibition" The principle is
right, or else the majority of the people of this
State are sadly in error
But how does the Sentinel stand on this very
principle of Prohibition? 1t has evidently
concluded that Prohibition is not such ras-
cally thing after all, notwithstanding the same
editor has been so bitterly opposingit. From
an editorial in the Sentinel of 7th inst, we
make the following extract:
eve are not prepared to say that the enact
ment of Prohibitory Law in the State of In
diana will be productive of any evil-on the con-
trary we are of the opinion that it will ulti-
mate in consequences of infinite benefit to the
public morals and the peoples interests"
According to this, the Sentinel is for Pro-
Addition while it opposes the present Prohibi-
tory Law. Now we suppose there are but
few who do not think the present law suscep-
tble of improvement. Experience has proven
that it contains some errors. There are none
probably more willing to have errors of the
law rectifed, than the Prohibitionists them
selves. The Sentinel occupies precisely the
position Of the Republicans, by the paragraph
above-it thinks that good Prohibitory
Liquor Law twill ultimate in consequences of
infinite benefit to the public morals and the
peoples interests of the State of Indiana
just 50 ne think. If the present law is Lot
good law, the Old Liners are to blame as well
as the Republicans. An Old Line Senate pass
ed the Bill as it came from the hands of the
COMMITTEES appointed by the Old Line Presi-
dent of the Senate, and the Old Line Governor
gave the bill the approval of his official sigma
ture. As the Sentinel don't like the present
law, we hope it will tell us what kind Of a law
it would have, to iuure to the infinite benefit
to thcpublic morals and the peoples interests