Weekly hawk-eye and telegraph. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1855-1857, 1855-07-11
I HAWK.EYE AND TELEGRAPH.
The prohibitory Liquor Law

The Pfohibitory Liquor Law
For years the friendsof temperance in
this and other States we're not satisfied ID
aaasir esertpns for tho suppression of the
sas. t's Intoxicating drinks, until they OBJ
tMaiseS M aae passage Of the most stringent
laws to effect this object They have bat
tied manfully and won the victory in al
most every state where their forces were
properly marshalled and they acted as one
man. Contrary to the expectations OF
many good friends of temperance. the
doubts and representations of the indif-
fercnt, the strenuous opposition of the Ii
quor vender interest, and the small but pi-
ratical Nebraska and whiskey army, Iowa
has been placed in the front rank with
those States which have determined to ex-
terminate, ifpossible, the unclean thing
altogether from within their borders The
law, proclaiming freedom from the thral-
dom Of Rum, was ratified in April last. By
the people for whose benefits was passed
Surprising as it may appear to the reflect
i've mind or the true lover of liberty in its
largest sense-it has been suffered to fall
almost still born among the laws of the
land, instead Of being elevated TO, and
placed on the highest pillars of our po-
litical fabric. A law that allows, we
might say which GIVES liberty to the soul
and freedom to the conscience to all within
its inauence--a law which has been de-
clared by its advocates equal, if not supe-
rior in its consequences to that celebrated
actwhich made US free to govern ourselves,
aud which we commemorate this day-one
which should receive more consideration
from those who conceived it and brought
it into life It should have been welcom
ed by the people with greater rejoicings
than those which herald the birth of an
heir to throne. 1t seems to us that there
is a great falling off of patriotism and love
to his fellow man in the fathers and sup
porters Of this law, when they fail to ac-
knowledge its paternity and strive to in
fuse that life into it which they promised
should effect such wonderful and benefi-
cial results. Would not, this have been
a day above all others to have sealed their
sanction to its enactments, and given to it
the paternal blessing. But where are its
bold champions now-when the infant
needs the fostering care of good nursing
fathers and mothers? Is it to be suppo-
sed that the infant can walk ere it is sin
numbered even of its swaddling clothes?
Perhaps they are ashamed of their off
spring. If SO, come out and acknowl-
edge it at once, and admit that you have
brought into existence that which you can
not support. I&I#
: : We are not inimical to the law-on the
contrary we gave it our hearty support and
shall continue to do SO, maugre its luke
warm and we fear we shall have to add, it's
hypocritical friends But let these re-
marks suffice for the present, which were
suggested from the disgraceful scenes be-
fore us, daily and hourly enacted in as
many beer and grogshops as blotted the
fair fame and good morals of our city be-
fore the law went into force 1t should be
carried out or repealed-aud the result de-
pends altogether upon those who success
fully have carried it thus far We prefer
and shall advocate the former, but wher-
ever the fault lies, if the latter should
prove necessary, we shall not fail to expose
the reasons. More anon. ~ .s1