The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1866-08-02
Translated from the Evansville Union. J
Temnerance Laws.

Inc EVANSVILLE OdAAy OONftC' eeenOS
occasion. from our short report of the
last Democratic District Convention
in Vincennes, to let loose a grumbling
article against US. It calls all the
devotees of temperance abstinence
rather members of the Republican
party. and asserts that all temperance
laws have their origin IN cumulo from
Republican Legislatures, while Dem
ocrats have always protested and vot-
ed against such laws. This assertion
is such downright false one that, if
we will not accuse the Courier of de-
liberate falsehood, we must charge it
with an objectionable ignorance of
the temperance legislation Of our
State
The amendment to the Liquor Law,
passed last winter in our Legislature,
was moved by Mr.. Harrison, from
Shelby County, a known Democrat,
and seconded by Mr.. Cofroth, the
cheuol de 6ataiUe of the Democratic
party, now candidate for Attorney
General on the Democratic ticket.
Besides, nearly all the other Demo
cratic members of the Legislature,
including Brown, from Wells County,
who in 1863 wanted to incorporate
Indiana into the Southern Confedera-
cy; Burton, from Sullivan County,
Buskirk, from Bloomington, Speaker
of the Legislature of 1863, and the
most influential Democrat in the last
Legislature, all of whom voted for
that law. a.a
Of the Democratic Senators voting
in favor of the offensive bill, we're
also several leaders of that party, as
B. w. Hanna, Cobb, Clifford and Will.
hams. Besides them, fourteen more
Democratic Senators voted for the
bill, only two against it.
The Courier blames. the Republican
City Council of Evansville for i'm.
posing, license of $50, forgetting to
mention that the same license, and
in many cases even heavier one, is
taken in cities under Democratic ad-
ministration; for instance, in Vineen-
mes, Madison, and Lafayette, ~
Has the Courier forgotten that the
Democratic leading paper of the
State, the Indianapolis Herald. not
long ago, recommended high licenre
and demanded its establishing2 Had
this unjust demand taken effect, the
sale of liquors would have been mo-
nopoly of capitalists, and the work
ingman would have had to pay for
his beer price almost at the will of
privileged hosts. 81 - Il n ~
What one can expect concerning
temperance laws from the Democratic
party not yet forgotten by our land
lords. AS long as the Democratic
Prosecuting Attorney was in office
they were constantly and unrelenting-
ly prosecuted y notice was taken of
the most trifing trespass of the
law, and had to be attoned for with
fines.
But still the delegates of Wander
burgh County dared, in the late
Democratic District Convention in
Vincennes, to give twenty two votes
for the same tormentor of our land
lords-W. Bennett. What change
since the present Union Prosecuting
Attorney Hargrave is the executor of
the law; the severity of the law is
hardly felt; its intolerant- spirit is
moderated by tolerant proxis, and
the morality Of our citizens is certain
ly not diminished.
The elegant expressions with which
the Courier tries to embellish its style
we will not resent. IF the defendant
of the Southern rebels calls our paper
a radical rebel sheet, we gladly admit
that our antipathy against the supre-
macy of Copperheads is radical, and
that our head and heart certainly re-
bells against the crimes and sins which
the Copperheads for the last five years
have committed.
IF the Courier, in calling us : leu
tonic abolition rebel neighbor," OF
''our Third Street Teutonic neigh
bor,n gives expression to its Know
Nothing sentiments, and sneeringly
points at our German nationality, We
can forgive him SO much the better
% nIsn our German nnlleanne tht