The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1866-03-22
An Effective Lecture.

An Effective Lecture. ID"
Every true friend of temperance Will
endorse the following remarks of Judge
n. NJ. Hubbard, Of this Judicial Dis
trict, OH the occasion of his fining mum"
Der Of liquor-scllers $50 to $3.50 and
costs, who were arraigned before him
for trial, at Marengo:
"While there are greater crimes known
to the law, and which are punished with
greater severity, there are none that in
volve more of those qualities known as
meanness and audacity, than
selling intoxicating liquors. ..
"There is something in the taking of
human life, by violence, so instantane-
Gus that it shocks and terrifies all minds;
and yet we look upon the man who takes
human life quite as surely, but by slow
lingering process, if not without condem-
naiioH, ~ least with much iess horror.
You who stand before this court for sem
tence, are in every moral sense murder
ers. And, you are within the spirit, if
not the letter guilty of legal manslaugh-
ter; for the law says that whoever accele-
rates the death of human being unlaw-
fully, is guilty Of the crime. Your bloat-
ed victims who stood upon the witness
stand and who undoubtedly committed
perjury to screen you from the law,
abundantly testify that you are not only
accelerating death, but that you are in
duciug other men to commit still greater
crimes than your own.
"You still maintain the outward ap-
pearance of respectability, but how NOR
ally leprous and scrofulous you are in
wardly. The ruin, poverty, and idleness
which you are infiicting upon this COM
.nunity declare, as from the house tops.
You are living in idleness and eating the
bread of orphans watered by widows
tears-you are stealthily killing your
victims, and numbering the peace and
industry Of the community, and thereby
converting happy, industrious homes
into misery, ,athriftless poverty and rags.
You are sowing the seeds of ignorance,
idseness, and want, among generations
to come.
"Anxious wives and mothers watch
and pray in tears nightly, for the coming
home to desolate hearts, of your victims,
whom you are Turing with the wiles and
smiles Of the Devil, into midnight de-
bauchcry. :.a.,
"In fine; as one can have no adequate
conception of great cataract until he
has seen Niagara, nor of the terrible fu-
ror and grandeur Of a storm at mid-occan
until he has witnessed one, so no man
can know the utter degradation and to-
tai depravity to which his species can be
brought, until he looks upon the desolate
ruin caused by your hellish traffic.
"You have been frequently admonish-
ed by this court of your crimes, and their
terrible effects, and you have been repeat
edly fined therefor; but you give no heed.
"You are persistent, defiant law-break-
ers, and shamelessly boast that in def
ance of the law and the moral sense of
the community, you will continue in
your wicked and criminal practices.
"It has therefore, now, become the inn
perative duty Of this court, to let fall up
on you SO heavily the strong arm of the
law, that you shall be either driven from
your nefarious traffic. or ruined in your
fortunes and wicked prosperity. You
have become stencil in the nostrils of
this community, and all good men are
praying that you be speedily reformed,
or summarily destroyed. By the provi-
dence of God and the favor of this court,
these prayers shall be speedily answered
by signal and exact justice for your
crimes.
"This court will feel proud satisfac-
ton in taking from you by law, your ill
gotten gain and giving it to the Com
mon School Fund Of this county, where,
let us hope it will assist in educating the
rising youth to shun your vices and
wicked practices.
''And finally let me entreat you, II
you are not already lost to every noble
sentiment Of humanity, to desist from
your criminal, yagabond traffic, and be.
take yourselves to some honest calling
for a livelihood; and you may yet become
virtuous, useful citizens, and entitled tc
the respect of christian community
while if you persist in this way your
own ruin is certain, and you will receive
as you deserve, the hatred and execra
tions Of mankind.
"You may, perhaps, think that these
remarks are harsh and unjustly severe
but the court assures you, that as com
pared with your crimes, and the desola
ton you have brought upon this com
munity already, they are as the mildes
May morning to the bleakest December
The burning Oil well near Franklin
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