Burlington tri-weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1852-1855, 1855-03-15
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Prohibitory Law Tactics.

For the Hawk-Eye.
Prohibitory Law Tactics.
There will be, during the present month,
good deal Of discussion, relative to the Pro
hibitory Liquor Law, which passed the Leg
islature at ito last session, leaving to the
people in the different townships the decision
of tn. question in April next, rs to the time
the said law shall, take effect. Andyet fear
our friends may come to the conflict on the
day Of election, in measure unprepared,
from a mistaken view Of what is necessary
for that preparation. Something more is
wanted than the mere discussion Of the sub
ject at township meetings. The war must be
carried into the enemy's ranks. The friends
of Temperance must organize Instantly an
every township, and not only hold frequent
meetings in every school district, but flood
the county with Temperance Publications.
And on the character of these publications,
as we'll a. on the discussions which will be
had, every thing will depend. Let not the
friends of Temperance in this county, suffer
their attention to be drawn from the MAN
point to abstract and evil-drawn specalatons
about constitutional and inaisnable rights.
Keep the great eye of the public, as well as
individual eyes, ght to the main point.
Families are overwhelmed with sorrow,
suffering and shame, home laid waste, bread
turned to poison, in view Of the course pur-
sued by the inebriatad husband and father
Reason is dethroned. and hundreds Of men
are turned out from the grog shops, and beer
houses, fitted for any outrage on the proper
ty and lives CT law-abid;ag citizens. Once
pleasant homes are falling o ruins, and thou
sands of acres Of this fertile soil are grossly
neglected by their drunken owners.
Domestic happiness expires In the fumes
Of alcohol. The hearts of ten thousand
wives and mothers are breaking and bleeding,
pierced and trampled upon by the accursed
traffic in strong drinks. Ragged and shoeless
children ars running in the streets, their phys
cal comfort, their education, and their NOR
ais neglected, and more than all these, their
spiritual welfare uncared for. Thousands Of
reckless young men are learning from rum
parched tongues, the profans oath and the
obscene j-st, which they in turn will teach to
others, thus daily widening the influence and
increasing the virulence of the moral conta-
gion. The Sabbath is counted as nought
wherever these influences prevail, and men
rsek lessly trample on the authority of God,
and desert his holy temples, spending the
time set apart for the special worship of the
most High in rioting and drunkenness. AL
the great interests of society, commercial,
agricultural and manufacturing, are suffer
ing more from the influence of intoxicating
drink than from any other cause; while our
prisons and insane asylums are filed with
the wretched victims of the accursed traffic.
Let the attention of our fellow citizens be at
all times directed to these terrible truths,
confirmation of which may be found in every
county and town Of the State. Array these
facts on paper, and put copy into the hands
of every family, and they shall be made to
reflect, to feel and to speak. Let the enemy
talk Of constitutional and inalienable rights,
Of free trade, and the like, to the end of the
chapter, but let us talk Of facts--of soul
string facts of daily occurrence, and from
these facts reason out tina duties and OBJ
legations of those we address, by plain and
logical argument, resorting to no quirk Or
bubbles. Study the subject, bv day and by
night, make yourself familiar with every ar.
gument, by which the truth may be sustained,
and then grappls boldly with the enmies of
truth. X. Y. Il