New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1855-04-03

trees Qirdled, bis cattle hamsuung or polsoneu'
bis fences and doors befouled, and his buildings
burnt. we think no more can fairly be
REQUIRED of him. Yet, BY the Senates
bin. be lie obliged to bear in addition the
rick and loss Of failure in any suit he may
originate; il he wins it, the Public Treasury
pspes for the net proceeds; II he loses be must
psy the coat ont OF his own pocket. Should he
bring hundred suits and gain eighty Of them,
the Treasury would take ths net proceeds Of bis
lucky suits and leave him to shoulder the total
coat Of bis unlucby oIes. We do think this
wropp and fatal. Quarter on the enemy" isl
sound maxim; and the game Of Head, | win;
tails. YOU lose," il one the State ought not to
play as against its citizens who are striving and
brsyirg TO check vice and cause its laws to be
obeyed. We have paid some money aud begged
more wherewith to prosecute law. defyiug liquor
dealers; We think Maine Law Legislature
ought not to reimpose this hard necessity on
those citizens who will try to have the Law of
Prohibition enforced. We trust the House will
nor.copcur in this amendment and tia. tbs
Senate will tbereupon recede from it. The fate
Of this provision will 90 far to determine Whistler
Prohibition shall be q practical verify or legal
fiction.
2. The Assembly proposes that Prohibition
shall be the law from and after the 18th of next
month, MAY y tie Senate proposes to give Rum
selling legal tetber extending to the 9th July.
Now the two months grace will seem to many
unn portant; but here is the pinch Most OF the
Licenses expire on tie 18th of next May aud it
will be bad policy TO get the dealers in the habit
Of selling without license thenceforward to the
4tb of July. Such are the "trichs" of which
"old dogs" are provtrbially hard to break. But
sgsin: Most of our rumselers rent premises
whereof the lesse expires on ihe Let OF
May If they are decisively told to shut
up On or before the 18Th, may will give
| mp their premises on the 1ss aud retdrn to
.ome more commemorate vocation. But give
them two months further rope, and they will
hold on to their tenemen their bottles, aud
their fisIy fluids; and, when the 9TH OF July
comes it will be too late to change their busi.
neas, or lot their premises; they will have got 4
ta,te of selling without license; and they will
eue,s that they can crawl along somehow, sell
ing slyly aid cautiously, until they worry the
year out. OF courte, we shall iud them doing
their worst against us next fall. Surely the
Senate must, on reflection, recede from this
smen6ment. There cannot be man among
them so green as 10 imagine the RuInselers will
have any less liquor on hand on the 9TH Of July
than they would hare on the 18th Of May.
3 Not to be csptious, we will instance just one
more bad spot in the Senste's bill 1t isa clause
interpol,ted near the close, giving to perfumers,
chemists, &c, &c the right to use, in their call
iDgs, Alcohol " and other spiritaous liquors" Or
courte, if they may use them, ,hey may keep
tbtm-Do Court will gainsay that Aud there is
no limit as to the quantity they may keep-one
man may want only a little choice wine or pure
Old brandy for some such purpose; but another
will want all sorts, aid in hogsheads; and
who shall presume to gsuge his vault And
if people-intmate friends, we will say
shoud drop in occasionally on buiness,
aid, finding the good creature convenient,
should take q glass all around, or two Of
then-of course, without his consent
bow are they to be stepped What jury would
bel 20 lard hearted as to punish him for their im-
pUVtUL IIttutiul hu D1tseitul5 SCudbVio' yVu
have msde hole here whereby any experienced
uhipster may drive coach snd six right though
the vitsls Of Prohibition. Do strike this out !
Bear in mind that 'brsndy drops and O;hsr
subtle DISCUSSES Of the Alcoholic serpent In con-
fectiopery, &c, are among the most insidi 'us
and des,ly instrumentalites of temptation and
ruin.
On the whole, we think the Assembly will non-
concur in the Senstes amendments as a whole,
ard ask Committee of Conference. Let good
men be placed on that Committee; let them sfs
the points of difference thoroughly and recommend
concession on this eide and on that as shall seem
polite and just. Then let the respective Houses
agree to the Report the Committee promptly,
heartily, dectiyely-apd let US take the law as |!
pstses and 90 to work. The desolsting Traffic
will be stopped much easier than most persons
suppose, if q fair bill is passed, and the People
take hold In earnest to enforce 1t.
PEACE PROSPECTS.
L.. L., IL g.