Charles City intelligencer. [volume] (Charles City, Floyd County, Iowa) 1864-1866, 1866-04-12


The reports for the year ending Oct
3lst, 1855, show similar result, will
a large increase Of criminal cases owe
the previous year 1t is an undenia
bic fact, attested by statistics, tha
the effective. suppression Of fhtemper
ance in our State would deprive oul
criminal courts of one-half their bust
ness, lessen by one-half the heavy
costs of criminal prosecutions, and
reduce by one-half the number of pris
oners in our County jails and State
prison.
Sirth-The men who carry on the
business, the evil results which are
thus clearly manifest, and who now
ask for Legislation favorable to thei,
traffic, have organized secret political
association, the object of which appears
to be to resist the laws of the State, SC
far as those laws conflict with their
traffic. They publicly proclaimed
their determination to vote only for
candidates who are pledged in writ.
ing to favor their plans and have
privately levied heavy contribution on
the liquor dealers of the State, thereby
raising a large fund, with which to re-
sist the enforcement of the laws, and
to secure, by means of money, such
legislative and judicial action as may
aid them in the accomplishment Of
their unlawful purposes. The fifth ar
ticle of the Constitution of their Estate
Liquor Dealers Association i" is as fol-
lows:
SEC. /. This Assertion shall COM
prise distillers, wholesale liquor mer-
chants, druggists and saloon keepers,
and are to be classified and pay dues
as follows:
No. /. Distillers. First Glass
Houses over 1000 bushels capacity
per day, fifteen dollars per month.
Second Ciass-Houses from 500 to
| 900 bushels per day, ten dallars per
month. Third Ciass-Houses of less
than 500 bushels per day, five dollars
per month.
No. 2. Wholesale dealers. First
Class-Ten dollars per month. Sec
cOnd Ciass-five dollars per month.
No. 3. Third Class-pruggists, five
dollars per month.
No. 4. Saloon keepers. First Glass
Two dollars and fifty cents per
month. Second Class-One dollar per
month.
Sec. 2. All local organizations
shall be governed by the above sched-
ule, and remit monthly to the general
Treasurer all surplus money over local
expenses"
Thus men are openly engaged in
carrying on the traffic in spirituous H.
quors In defiance of the laws and pub
lie sentiment of the State, and are us
ing part of their unlawful gains in
fortifying themselves against law and
justice. To comply with the demand
of such conspirators would be an out
rage against eiriiization and The moral
sense Of mankind. ..
Serenth-The plea that the present
law is inefficient, and that judicious
license law would accomplish more for
the suppression of intemperance, is
sufficiently answered by the fact that,
while the liquor dealers are unanimous
ly in favor of license law, the knopR
and tried friends of sobriety are with
almost equal unanimity opposed to
such law. 1t is claimed by the lat.
ter that
EighM-There is now throughout
nearly all parts of the State manifest
determination on the part of the peo
pie to enforce the present law against
the criminal traffic in spirituous liquors
In counties where faithful and persis
tent efforts are made to suppress the
traffic by law, beneticent results are
plainly apparent and in many locali
ties intemperance is almost wholly
suppressed. During recent terms OF
the District Courts in several coun
ties, merited justice has been metec
out to offenders in the infiction ol
heavy fines, accompanied by severe re,
Dukes in open court.
NiatA-There is a very strong, i
not predominant, public sentiment in
the State favorable to more stringent
lenactments than any now in force fol
the entire suppression of the traffic il
all spirituous, vinous and malt liquors
and with this sentiment part of your
committee fully agree. Believing
therefore, that intemperance is grea
evil, to suppress which legal enactment
as well as moral means are necessary
aud that the present laws Of the State
relating thereto are wise and practica
BILE, and hoping that the people AM
the judiciary will sustain and enforc
them, your committee would most re
spectfully Recommend that the law
. OF the State now in force in SO far a
they prohibit and punish the manufas
ture and sale Of Intoxicating liquor
shall not be repealed or modified SO a
to make them less prohibitory.
All Of which is respectfully submitted
L. ID. Tracy, Chairman.
Il b. X. PALMER, Secretary.
JOHN G. SAFLEy.
L. DwEME.
JOHN Z. CARBEE.
: Z. A. MoRGAN.
Majority of the Committe