Eaton Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1843-1856, 1855-03-01
Temperance.

tASAS ifSfH ~ NAhb'f eNNAotaNg tCA
alive to the sction Of the ladies of Centieville
upon the Liquor question. We are opposed +
mob law in all its forms, but,if we remenbe
rightly, the cause Of the out break in Centre
vile, was produced by some fend in huGal
shape, furnishing liquor to a poor, degraded
devoiee Of Bacchus, despite the tears, and en-
trea ties Of his wife and family, and the re
monst,ance Of friends, until death closed tn
scene, and we now say, in cases similar, whel
men cease 10 be men, and become devils, the,
should not only have the heads of their whisk,
barrels knocked in, but their Oua should share
a similar fate.
We are at a loss to divine the motivt
Tempera nee ladies had in requesting the pub.
LEGATION Of the article alluded to, here, unles.
it might be, indeed, with a view of exciting
some Of the more fanatical and fstrong minded
OF our town, 10 acts Of lawlesSness and vi.
~olence. We are happy to believe, however,
that the women OF Eaton, have too much goot
sense anG prudence 10 engage in any suct
acts. We have in Ohio, q law stringent in its
provisions, upon the Liquor traffic, and if thai
is not sufficient to protect community, mobOc
raey will most certainly fail. The ladies OIL
Mount Pleasant, Hamilton county, a ShorI
time since, got the ''deil in them and made q
descent upon sundry whisky establishments
and demolished them according to the moSI
approved plan in Judge Lynch's code. We
have no fears of any such occurrences in
Eaton, although, fsome OF the heads of those
barrels from which is retailed amalgamated
ether and whiskey, at ten cents per quart, was
knocked in, few would regret it! When men
sell whisky so mean that it makes those who
drink it steal, or abuse their families, the law
most applicable to a speedy discontinuance OF
the business should be enforced. Some Tenn
perance men, however, are mighty braue be-
hind Notifications OF Calico, and ladies gener-
ally, being generous, kind, sympathetic and
impulSive, these gentlemen use every means
to incite all the active principles of humanity,
and then prudence, moderation anc judgment
flee away and overt actsPf la"lessness and
violence ore the conscience. Every good
citizen must deprecate all acts of mobocracy,
and everything calculated to foster such q
spirit, and of the two evils, it is hard to tell
which is the most to be dreaded. It might
truly be said, however, that the "remely is
worse than the disease p II The laws, when
rigidly enforced, are insufficient to protect
community, then, and not until then, might it
be proper to seek in violence that redress
which is withheld by law. We know the
Liquor business, is q source of profit, and that
is the reason men cling to it with so much te.
nacity, but We are glad 10 telieve thatthere is no
one engaged in the business in our to,cn, who
would not willingly give it up, If his stock was
purchased at cost we are not authorized 10 say
so. p,sitiue'y, but from our knowledge of the
men, we are induced so 10 believe, so that the
business may be stopped. without resort to
violence, and thereby much ill-feeling and ac-
rimony prevented. We regard the present law
as unjust in some of its provisions, but it is
The best we have now, or, can for some time
to come, and it should be administered and ex-
ecuted with frmnesS tempered by mercy.
We have no sympathy for those fellows in
Mount Pleasant, who LOST their whisky, but
we can offer no word Of justification for the
means whereby il was offered dopna sacrifice.
If it was as mean as that stuff generally kept
in small places, and large ones too, sometimes,
it should have been offered a sacrifice 10 the
devil long before it was, as we'll as all OF a
character, We are in favor of Total
Abstinence, and although we indulge in a little
the " critter" occasionally, by way Of med
ieine, yet, we are willing to stop of short, and
go the whole figure for Prohibition, for the
public good. But, what's the use OF talking
Read The article from the Palladium, and if
dell gets into you, and you've a notion to
whisky barrel heads and whiSky.se
heads too, and think there's no hereafter,
all we've got TO say is, 60 it pettieoats!
U'Allof the Railroad Companies in Indiana
have given free passes 10 the members of the
Legislature. Is not this r~eyiying the "dead
he ADJ evctem in lie nooSt ohie cfionahla fnrn