Nevada national., 1859-02-19
obj 0staSa 0atiuuaI.
RUFUS SHOEMAKER. EDIroR.
agtss VALLEY, Feb. H. 1893.
NVhi-key.

Whiskey.
The Assembly have passed q substitute of
the Senate bill abolIshing the Office of State
Gnagre OF Liquors The substitute also abol'
isbes the Office but makes private gaugng
binding and lawful. So in a few days the
State Gaugership will be defunct institu-
ton. aud people will not knew whether their
whiskey barrels are honest or not. liereaf-
ter no genuine liquor is expected to be found
in all the land as there will he no official
drtector of poison. Members of the Assem-
bly, may a. individuals. from long practice
and educated tastes, know good from bad
liquor, chain lightning whiskey from honest
corn distilation, but those members are not
di,rcys. though most generally. convenient
on drinking occasions. to warn a man agsins.
Tarsntna Juice. An Artillery Regiment
with Mountain Howitzers will now invade
these northern mines tall in the shape of
brandy cssks) aud the destruction accom-
! plished among the sovreigns of California.
be truly gratifying to the despois Of Europe
The arguments against the existence Of a
State Gaugership we're truly admirable
They amounted to this The fees OF the Of
fee was serious tax on The liquor mer.
chant and the Office afforded no protection
to the people (the constituents and trestors
of fAssemhymen) against adulteratiou. On
the first argument the Revenue law shonld
be amended so as to make the liquor IL
cense" on par with license paid by other
traders. Oh the injustice OF tax on these
/ chain lightning mixers and manufacturers!
They are an oppressed class They are
compelled to pay for poisoning the people !
| They are debarred from receiving all the
profits to be made by sending great multi.
tudes of snakes forth to invade the boots OF
the numerous soakers. Well could such
thoughts dill the Assembly Hall with the elo-
quence ofs Street Well could the curse oi
bad whiskey. caused as they say by this same
gaugcrship, call out laundering inyectives
from the throats of Assembly Victims
4" Free trade in whiskoy" is a modern po-
litical wa.chword. Five cents drink y
| ia a modern political principle, aud before
the people the party which adopts il will
be invincible. " Restrictions on trade " can
not be tolerated. and will not be by the fair
minded Assembly. Hear the eloqucuce OF
the member from Shasta on the subject:
The interest of the parties. and the great
| laws of trade that govern the market, should
I remain untrammeled 10y such rrstriotions.-
I Such interferences 10 trade are undemocratic,
and ought TO be removed, but it is hard To
| remove them. When law OF thus character
| is enacted. au Office created aud an officer
| firmly seated in the saddle on the backs of
the people. whipped and SPARED. his fingers
clutching the pur-e-strings OF u princeiy ia
! come. it il no easy matter to move bin. il
requires ali the combined power ami firm
I ness Of the iijends ol reform 10 unLoTse him.
"In,erest of partiesr' Which parties +.
BUYERS or sellcrss We go in for The interest
OF peFiies, ard nois unfnrl the banner of
FnvE crNTwH. believing that 1t is 30 The in
terest Of consumers TO be killed at once for a
Bit (two drink-l aud not he slowly poisoned
because he cannot get a good dose Three
cheers for FIvE-cESTIsM