The Potter journal. [volume] (Coudersport, Pa.) 1857-1872, 1859-02-24
Temperance i'm the kanSag
Legislature.

Territorial Council Of Kansas. PEN
yania Legislators can find many item G..
common sense in it; and even the wlis...y-
bibbers of Potter county will do vel, -
consider some of the arguments directed
against license law, contained therein -
ED. Journal
Interesting Debate on The License Lass.- Vkisky
rs. Lager Beer, DC.
House went into Committee of the
Whole on Bill No. %, being bill for reg
ulating the sale of intoxicating drinks
license law.
Judge Wright moved to amend the Sd
section, to allow fermented and vinous IL
quors TO be sold without reward. He was
decidedly IN favor Of lager beer but op-
posed TO whisky and strong drinks.
Mr.. Scott moved TO amend by allowing
license to be granted for the sale of beer,
&c, at one half the usual rates
DR.. Danford opposed the amendment.
He considered lager beer and kindred
drinks worse, even, than the stronger
drinks. Those who learn to tippie with
these lighter drinks, are paving the way
for the drunkard The only difference
between these drinks is, that one makes
man drunk sooner than the other. La
ger beer contains 10 per cent. of alcohol.
He did not wish to offer premium upon
these 10 per cent. doses. The foundation
Of drunkenness Is laid in this wine and
beer drinking. He was in favor of going
to the root Of the evil.
Mr.. Wright was not the advocate of
drunkenness or rumselling. He had al
ways been temperance man. In Swe-
den and Ireland, every man is drunk who
can get liquor enough to get drunk on,
because they use whisky. But in Ger
many and France, where they use lager
beer and wine, you don't see men drunk.
The Germans don't get drunk here until
they become Americanized, and learn TO
drink corn whisky. He hated the rum
seller, but he did not want to 20 too far.
Mr.. Scott wished to take practical
ground. lie wished the matter referred
to the people Is a teetotaler himself
When he travelled in Germany, he never
uncorked his bottle of wine, although il
was set by his plate each day at dinner.
He would not give bis example 10 wine
drinking.
Mr. Mcdowell did not consider this
temperance bill, nor prohibitory bill, but
a bill for increasing county revenue Al
were agreed as to the evil Of the sale Of
Intoxicating drinks: but the remedy?-
that's the question. Thought that, undeg
the amendment, lager beer would be ez.
tensivelv mixed with whisky.
Mr.. Roberts, of LeavenEorth, said tha.
he had no speech to make on this subiec..
but would propose the following form .1r
a license to be given II case tae bill shou-4
pass.
To A b: You have beea
recommended to US as a suitable pers31
to engage in the enterprise hereiuai.s-
described and defined therefore,
For and in consideration Of ten dollar
paid into the County Treasury, the re-
ceipt of which is hereby acknowledge.
you are hereby authorized and empower
ed ia open a school in your house, in.
for the purpose Of teaching your friends
and neighbors the best mode of sowing
the seeds of discord, iu the neighborhood
in which your school is located; to cause
men to lose their self-respec and to pre-
pare them TO accomplish, in the most ap-
proved manner, the following things, viz:
TO beat and abuse their wives and families,
and TO reduce them to beggary and desti-
tuition, and as such, to throw them upon
the hands Of the community, 10 6ll our
poor-houses, jails and penitentiaries, and
to supply the gallowS with victims; in a
word, to promote, 10 the best of your abil-
ity, all kinds of crime. and, in every way
possible, to augment the aggregate of hu-
man misery.
And, for all this, you have this, our
warrant, which shall be your sufficient
and complete pardon in ad
vance, for all such crimes to which Won
may be accessory.
He thought this was just the question
at issue, whether, for ten dollars, we would
men TO commit such crimes. If
such thing had come down to US from
the dark ages, We shou look upon it with
adherence. 1t was ike the indulgence
granted. by the Pope for the commission
Of crime. This evil was the most dread
ed, the most terrible, that afHicts humani-
ty. No pestilence nor famine could CON-
pare with it. Yet, We propose to licease
men to do these things.
The committee postponed the farther
consideration of the bill, until a report on
this same subject can be had from the
Committee on Vice and immortality.