The Richmond Indiana palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1854-1855, 1855-06-28
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MEssRs. EDIroRs--In my second, | post
eF' some Of the items that indicate the amount
OF income 10 the proprietors OF the Mammoth
DIstillery in the western part OF our County.
II the first result was TOO large, or the secon
too small, or the reported data too errons Gus,
the proprietors are entitled 10 the privilege Of
fu-r ishtnr correction, and refuJatlon Of the
Whole mater. Let some oi their ready
seribes enter the list with me on the subject.
They must not effect silent contempt for my
posing Silence Will most certainly be con
siructed into admission Of the data, and II they
are right, the result is inevitably correct, and
every reader will see that the accursed love
OF f{thg lucre, is the motive OF perseverance II
the degraded calling.
A third reason l assign why they should
Quit i, that the manufacture and distribution
OF ardent spirits as a beverage, involves the
death of our couutrymen, and the reduction
of their dependents 70 destitution aud misery
+ Conseq uences which every man that has
soul, must deprecate. | know that the
participants in the liquor business usually dis
claim any intention on their part in produ-
cling such consequences. But drunkard ma
kers. from the pampered distiller down 10 The
tilthiest doggery keeper. do know tina. men
are destroyed by the commodity they furnish.
/ Itwas law among the people, for Goi
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f however lucrative he was 10 the owner, that
gored a man or a woman that they died, then
the OK was surely 10 be stoned TO death, but
+ the owner was Quit. But il the OK was won't
i to push with his horns. in time past, and It
j had been testified to his owner. and he kept
him rot in. but that he killed man or We
man. the OK shah be stoned, and his owner
also shall be put to death
According 10 the tenor of this statute, the
owner of property or commodity that des-
troved human life with his knolrledSe. suffered
the penalty due 10 a murderer, and of 81
prenae yudge.
The proprietors must bno,c that in every
barrel they dispose Of they let loose upon So
cietv qorinq *, with a thousand horns" 10
waste life
The absence of i'll will or malicious de-
signs upon the consumers of their commu-
nitv is no absolution from guilt Ill the death
of the victims. The highwayman has no mai
tee prepense. against the victim Of his weapons,
+ he Kills not as an end but as means. He
wants the money, and if he could obtain 1t
without Staying the poSsessor. he would rath-
er-the absence of III viii is no mitigation IN
this case.
Nor does the kind of instrument, nor the
distance Of the scene of destruction from one ;
. habitation absolve from participation in the
criminality involved in the waste of life by
the liquor traffic. According 10 the divine
2 code, .'If a man smite another with an instru-
: ment of iron so that he die, he Is a murderer
, shall be put to DEATH or if he smte him with
throwing a stone, wherewith he may die, lie
is a murderer,-or if he smite him with hand
weapon. wherewith he may die, he is murder
er, No's35, Is, l8.
II person should concentrate the rays OF
the sun, b powerful lens upon an individual
and strike him dead, he would be murderer
nor would the distance he stood from his vic
tim, dimish the culpability,-a man is mur
derer whether he dispatch his victim on hi
premises or "A thousand miles from them
\ man, or a set Of men charecablC
with murder, if they strike until the man is
: dead. If one stroke per day for thousand
| days issue in the death of the subject, tht
: guilt OF murder would exist.
t Nor does the consent of the infatuated vie
3 tim, Justify the waste of human life. Sup
5 pose a man inclined 10 suicide, should disclose
to YOU, reader the fact that lie is tired Of the
world, and would offer you money to perform
the act of destruction, him, would YOU
r deem yourself innocent of his blood after you
: had helped him out of life? The physician
/ that would administer fatal dose al the
t request q one propense to suicide, would be
charge with criminal waste of life.
t Do the proprietors know that men consent
r to die in the of ardent spirits; and do die
from the fiery stream they send into the hab
$ tations of their fellow men? They do, and
/ therefore, they ought to quit.
r HUMANITY.