The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1864-03-10

D~As the Muscatinc Courier is now
the acknowledged organ Of the Cops. in
:s;s county, we wish it might try to state
matter. !. "oid lac Cedar f t. e: yyys asS1s
just now, is very much excited about the
liquor Law. As the Courier, personally,
is supposed to be in favor Of temperance,
We suppose Il is Influenced, in this re-
spect, by its fears Of the effect that an
enforcement Of the law will have upon
its party. It says, "wherever the Abo-
litionists have the local power, they are
enforcing the law" and again, 1--WE no.
tice all over the State, that the Adolf
tionists are putting men through for
selling beer aud liquors, aud that in some
parts Of the State, general reign Of
terror is threatened" If the Courier
means by the above, that tho liquor law
of our State is being enforced "all over
tho State" We can say that We are re-
joiced At the news, but unfortunately We
don't believe the Courier tells the truth
In another article the Courier also speaks
Of men being arrested 70, keeping "becr"
for sale. This "tescher Of the people, !"
or rather "bhnd leader of the blind"
does not know, or affects not 10 know,
that tho manufacture aud sale Of "beer''
n not prohibited BY our laws. But then
who expoots to End tho truth 10 the
Courier?
The Courier says,
"At Des Moines, the Abolition officers
have been spilling liquors by Wholesale.
At Upton, tho same thing has been done
on a large scale. In these places, the
things, BY some persons posting temper
ance hsudbills all over town, just as has
been done in this city"
We cannot say how it il 10 Des Moines,
but hope that public sentiment there is
sufficiently enlightened to enforce tho
law, Git was not las. Juue); but for Tip
ton We wish to say that the laws of the
State, for tho suppression of intomper-
ance, have been enforced since 1859, at
least, and perhaps longer, and that no
such hsndbilh have been posted over
town. We do not mean to say that in
oil that time no liquor has been sold in
violation Of law, bat That the Inv has not
been openly violated, and that violations
have been punished whenever the proof
could be had. The enforcement of the
liquor law in cold Cedar" is no new
thing, as many who have paid its penal,
ties can testify. While we arc writing
this, Tuesday evening, one man is paying
his dne by laying in Jail, and one other
man and, VIC blush to say it, one woman
arc in tho hands of the officers for alleged
violations of the law
The Courier is quite eloquent 10 its
denunciation of the law and those who
enforce II, and warns its readers TINT tn,
"Abolitionists" will euforce it every
where. We do wish that all "Aboli,ion
'sts' were worthy of the character thu,
given them, but we fear it is like o,he,
stntamenta nf .h~ r---:.. w. .h,uh
We can sec why it was that tho Courie,
was SO excited on this subject. A city
election was in prospect, and i. hoped tc
aid its party in electing its candidates by
deceiving tho people both as to the law
and tho facts. 1t is reported that the
"Abolition" candidate for Mayor was
elected by one majority. At any rate the
Courier did not make much by its state.
ments, as the Coppcrhead majority last
year was 90.