New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1855-08-11
not o.e in ten Of them will choose TO write him
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self down "liquor-dealer" Why not
Ill. There is no longer legal requirement
that every liquor-desler shall be Of good moral
character. Farce as this requirement was, it
tended to invest the traffic with cloak Of re-
accessibility which is now stripped of. There
cannot be much worse men IN the business than
there have been, bat there will be fewer aud
fever clinging TO il who aspire to pass for good
men.
". Tsvern-keepers and country merchants
are 10 longer subject 70 sort Of moral Cor
rather, mmoral) cOnstraint TO sell liqlor.
Hitherto, many Of their customers required
liquor, and would have resented a refusal 10
supply it as an impertinent reflection on their
hsbits "Does be mean TO insinuate that sm
"not TO be trusted with liquorl" roars an Of
Tended customer: "Ill teach him that when
"wsnt TO be lectured on my moral Character
and ply steal habits, 20 to a church and not
'to a tavern And so many passably good
men, not very strong in the back, kept liqlor
for sale because their customers would have II,
when they would have preferred not to sell.
V We have driven the Liquor Interest to
make distinct political fight for existence. 1t
has It's organization, it, conventions, commit
tees and organs; in due time it will present its
candidates. and call upon the voters to support
them on the ground of their hostility to Prohi-
bition. Men can hardly pretend hereafter that
they vote for such candidates as Wings or Demo-
Gratis. and not as lovers Of Liquor. OF course
the L quor question will become more and more
prominent in our political discussions, which
is Just what Temperance men desire ana seek.
VI Throughout at least half the State, tue
omen sale Of Liquor has already been arrested
A little. and but little, may still be sold clan
destinely, Just as gambling, lewdness and pass
inc boous money maintain a skulklng aud htidl
existence; but LiquOr-selliDg ss business is
finished. In the rest Of the State, mainly in the
cities. through the aid and comfort afforded 1t
By Judges and other legal fuuctonaries whose
opinions as to the quality of Liquor wolld be
much more conclusive than any they have given
against the Liquor Law, the Traffic still sho US
its brazen face, in defiance of Law and Public
Sentiment; but "tbis, too, shall pass away
Nobody, we presume, supposed that the
Liquor Interest would initiate Capt scott 5
coon by coming down the moment 1t saw the
deadly weapon pointed toward its lurkng-place.
! TIE Law Of Prohibition was fOredoomed to run
the gauntlet Of lawyers bubbles, whether
emanatnf from the Bar OF the Bench. Some
| Jurors. taking the law from their palates, will
refuse to give verdicts against rumselers over
ruling Chief Justice fancy and pronouncing
/ Cold Water unconstitutional. All these imPed-
ineDts we were ated to encounters all these
we shall, with patience and energy, overcome
Meantime, not regarding the Ten Command
ments as a failure, though every one OF them
has probably been violated each day since
their FORMULATION We cannot see in the fac
that rum.ellers eyade or defy the act to prevent
Intemperance Pauperism and Crime the least
reason for repeating that act: on the contrary
we are so much the mere impelled to sustain
| and enforce IL