New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1855-09-18
..sTRINGENT LICENSE"


he Herald is apprised of meeting Of friends
"of temperance and sobriety' at No 800 Grand-st
on Saturday night last to form general organi-
"zation" adverse to our present Prohibltory La
0uor Law and in favor Of stringent License Law
Eight persons would seem to have participated In
this secretly called meeting, of whom We have
heard of but one in times past in favor of Total
Abstinence. The residue we are confident, were
never before heard frsm in any sort of Temper
ance Meeting Their project, as set forth by their
spokesman, is as follows:
at is for the purpose of counteracting the injury
that has already been done this community by those
Temperance fanatics that a number OF the cltZeus
have decided forming organization political IN
it's principles and opposed to the Carson League and
other Ike fanatical and injurious associations. The
principal object hoped to be gained by US, is to In
duce our next Legislature to rescind the present Maine
Law and pass stringent license law, making 1t
penal oense for any person TO sell liquor without first
Obtsin a license the price OF which shoul1 be liked
at 81 coo or upward, with heavy fine and inpnson-
ment OF exceeding twelve months in the county Jail,
to any Ierson violating said license by selling aduer
aed liquors. or furnishing any strong drinks whatever
to person already under the influence oi liquor,
habitual drunkaTd minor or Yagrent lApplaueel.
This Gentlemen, il what understand are TO be tie
objects for VIII Oh this association s 10 be organized
We would also if are successful IN our undertake
ing have provision mace III the Excise law iOr ,he
apUontn et of excise agents similar 10 those OF En-
GLAND whose duty it shall be 10 keep strict watch
over all places selling liquors, and report TO tue proper
authorities any person VITO may be found IN any man.
ner violating The law.
We are very glad to see the kind of people
WHO engiI eered this "New and Important Tenn
"pe1aDce Movement" Gas their chosen organ
stxles it.) taking even this ground, bet 1t Is
ouicksand, and nobody can con lnue TO stand on
it. Either liquor-sellirg is intrinscally right
in which case We don't see why anybody should
be compelltd to pay 81 600 for liberty to follow
it-or it is iDtrin.icay wrong in which case
we don't see how the payment of $1,000 can
make it right Besides, the 81, 900 charge, which
! could be paid by hundred or so in this City,
would operate as a total Prohibition in most Of
our inland Counties; and why City people
! should have exclusive facilities for drinking
afforded them, we cannot perceive. Then if
ans body wants liquor it is the drunkard ifany-
BODY is past damage by it, he is the very man.
We protest against stopping his grog SO peremP-
torily and letting those Who are following hard
in his footsteps have full swing at it. Our boys,
too, get ahead very rapidly now, by the help of
cigars and billiards.; but let it be enacted that
majority shall be Il prerequisite for drinking,
and they will all be of age by the time they are
| sixteen.
OF course if the Liquor party ever get the
upper hand of us, We snail expect them TO pass
laws after their own heart; bu! We know no
middle ground between Free trade and Pro-
hibition. Everybody who chooses is at full lib
erty to sell clolh OF cinnamon, chOwder or chOc-
olate; and why he shouldn't be equally at liberty
to sell brandy or whisky, jsleps or cobblers, is
point which We Prohibitiohists can make plain,
but an advocate Of License never can.
As to "adulterated liquors" it is as noto-
rious that not one glass to every hogshesd sold is
other than adulterated. Our vines from Europe
are drugged and branded expressly for this mar
ket-not some of them, but all-snd the very
liquors which are used to adulterste them are
themselves adulterated. Two.thirds Of the
Wines and Brapdes sold here as imported we're
never Olt of this country for day; half Of
them never had grape even for grandfather.
| The "exci,e agents contemplated by The Her
aids T. mperat CO Society would be poisoned In
n month II they undertook to do tho duiy--but
provo "a trial ridiculous farce aud for oyory
licepsee pay ng n. 900 there would bs ton sollipg
| Illegally Jufiss wouldn't DO able to why
| II The ~ Nicholas or Astor were justified In
selling barrels each per day. By tho psyu,ast Of
| 81 .OoD. Mrs Mulioonsy might not support hs,
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