New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1857-05-18

will seu withot hcense a. general thing IN defiance
of it's provisions. The Commissioners tor this city
have decided that public housekeepers who have six
beds locked up in trunk IN hos o "a no nave
cie law They also decide that owning lot ID Green
wood or one Of Dr. Brandreths - 'neeholds, IS a
sufficient qualification to ente citzen 70 sign apPh-
cations for license. The statement Of citizen tnaf
he is freebooter is all that is required TO establish
the fact since the Commissioners will ind lmPoss bic
n make searches into the titles OF estates al over the
country Upon full discussion OF the law, our Com'
missioners have GENE TO the conclusion tna' II was
drawn up by drunken man who had no IDEA Oh "ha'
he was doing
This is certainly not complimentary to Senator
Brooks and the other enemies Of Prohibition who
drafted this law, nor to Senators Sckles and Spen-
Ger who voted for it, with every Democrat in the
Senate But it is hardly surprising it that men
who give such a construction to the New License
Act as is above outlined should conclude that 1t
was drawn up by drunken man." If we so
construed it, we should hold not only its suthor but
those by whose votes he carried it in very low esti
nation.
We have no belief by the way, that the Commits
serted above. One of them, We are very sure has
not
The Sunday Times edifes its readers on the
same subject in the following businesslike artice
"WHYTBEY DISLIKE 1.-THE chief reason why the
0uor-dealers oppose the excise law Is because u
prohibits them from selling on Sunday IL sprobable
that many of them would submit 10 the condition
which imposes heavy tax without much reluctance,
because ii would Justify them in demanding after the
new tariff goes into operation next July as high price
for their wares they exact now and the additional
profit would far than compensate for the cost OF
license. The condition compelling each to keep, in
substance an inn hotel and thus repudiatng IN toto
the saloons that crowd city might also be accept.
ed by them with but grimace for Its effect would
be ultimately 10 throw all the business into fewer hands,
and increase its pecunary advantage But the Sunday
prohibition deprives them of all traffic on the very day
Of the week upon which they fancy the people hare most
leisure TO indulge and most ready means TO pay for
that indulgence 1t closes, in practical sense the
gardens the bier 6rauere the places OF restaurdtoH
the thousand and one resorts OF the multitude which,
with wife or sister sweetheart friend on arm seeks
we are sorry to say but still 1t is the literal TRUTH TO
for ts devotion to labor for SIX consecutive days
by enjoying in social way the freedom OF the seventh
II this restraint upon the anc that most 0nends
them and most nerves them TO maintain an undivided
'front.' in opposition to the entire law IN al It's relation
ships.
Tour own private opinion is, that all Sunday laws
are unconstitutional AS matter of fact, we do
consider that any State has right to recognize
particular day "a the Sabbath and, in the attempt TO
force men 10 keep it holy enact laws making it
penal 10 transact business or enjoy pleasure AS
matter of policy admit the necessity OF such laws
for variety of reasons that have been so oiten gwen
as TO render unnecessary for to urge the point in
this connections but do not think It wise or pru-
dent 10 make them stringent as 10 invite their de-
liberate resistance and any law that endeavOrs 10
prevent from giving way to the mental and ply
steal relaxation which becomes the Sabbath must OF
necessity meet with just such popular antagonsm.
Men viii drink on Sunday who never drink on any
other occasion. They conceive that weeks absti-
nence entities them 20 the luxury. Aud drinking at
home is not what they desire. They want the open
ar-they pant for social ntercourseand it folly to
suppose that any extent any species OF legislation
can do more than increase in their eyes the value OF
the furtive enjoyment they feel that they should
boldly be entitled TO. Why cannot the Legislature,
il in earnest in its morality give us sensible License
law without adding to it such preposerouS and I'M
posSible-to- be-canied-out principle :!
We should admire to see" draft of ga SEN
"sbe license law" by the author of the foregoing;
giving, of course extra facilities for the traffic on
the Sabbath, because that day the great mass OF
tippIers have most leisure and most money. How
many of these would earn their Sunday spree by
ga weeks abstinence" depOnent saith not, but we
can't help suspecting the number would be small.
But the dscourasiug feature of the business is that
the Editor, after having carefully concocted his
sensible license law, would vote dead against its
passage like Floyd Jones aud our City delegation,
or miss no opportunity to disparase and stigmatze
it. like the organs of Senator Sckles.
The good people of this city may as well make