Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1867-04-16
License and Prohibition.

No-License issue is before the peo.
pie in some form or other and with
greet or moderate intensity.
There are QecasioaGl drinkers who,
seeing the EVILS Of drinking to excess
oil about them, are going in for pro-
hibition in honest hopes that some
good may be done. And there are
avowed practical temperance men
OF the old school, who are favorina
either the freedom to sell without Ii,
cense or restraint, or else licensing
with stringent determinations as to
who sre licensed, SO that only men Of
average good behavior and moral re-
sponsibility are authorized to sell this
devilish stuff which, as lately com
pounded of poisoned drugs and alcho-
hol, seems to lead men TO become out.
laws from the moment it leaves the
atlll I'll it rqns down their throats.
we confess to favoring the licensing
Of the best men that will undertake
the sale OF these drunk producing liz.
plds, believing that greatly less of
moral obliquity and crime will follow
the sale of liquors SO authorized and
regulated than by any other prac-
tice.
We would use the whole law and
its interpretations by the courts to
regniats the gale, to keep sellers and
drinkers Within safe moral bounds.
and to protect community from the
support of those impoverished and
diseased by drink.
we grant it would be better to alb
stain and to enforce abstinence upon
all--wefe it possible to carry NUNS
bcrs enough to enforce such absti-
nance, Believing it impossible to Sc.
cure the numerical power, at least not
until yastly!higher general stage of
intelligence shall prevail, we shall do
what is practical ifnot logical and
what seems metaphyically right how
eveF omen to criticism.
On the irst page of the HERALD we
have published the experience OF
some of the leading men Of Massa-
chusetts, E state that has been trying
on ProhltltiQp and No License these
dozen years. The legislature of that
state and those who have supported
the law from the first, now seriously
think of adopting such laws as we
have in Wisconsin and abandoning
just such as some Of our people think
OF trying on.
We may be wrong. some may
doubt our sincerity. We confess to
entertaining some doubts even of the
position we have taken and publicly
recorded. Therefore, as new lights
ire lighted and crooked bad ways
are made good ard straight by fur
tier travel on the whiskey sides walks
we may ip like manner change, re.
form and spberly travel some new
way.
We have been wrong very often
and have changed just as often. We
now think we did wrong for years in
supporting No-license, thereby prac-
tically insuring discredit to licensed
selling, and showing the business
adrift among sharks and pirates.
Having failed, and failing as we
Muat in reformatory measures till 9
day Of higher mental illumination
shall appear, we shall aim to put the
business in trustier hands and there
leave it,
And as to men of excessive drink,
ing, we shall try to throw such ob
atacles in their way as shall confounc
theif tangues and lead them to scat.
ter away and take to sober pursuit.
and associations; as did Japtha wher
his father was in wine, we shall walk
back dis and cover up the old maj
till soberness shall make him present
able.
If prohibition be a failure in Mas
ehusatts, what else can be expected
for the west with even stronger law
sgainst the trafficl Good God, W,
cannot even support the dog law!-
And il Q few influential money sha-
vers nullify and even RQnplsrise q null
LITIGATION OF our assessment lave ape
by their example elevate perjury Il
dccency and dignity, what is to be
come ofany LOCALIZED prohibitQry
liquor measures that can be adopted
Let Major Purman set the public
schools ablaze, and keep them so Til
new generation shall be installed
the old passing away, with speed &C
celebrating in just proportion as whis-
key guEyhng shall increase. We hal
tho new and better era when the
cold water pump in the hands of q
moro Intelligent rage shall drown ont
thestill worm of Deacon Jones distil.
lcry Of Qldsp timel We have faith in
glorioue fptHFe.
MARyLASn.-The electjan "for"
and "againsta calling 8 nov State
Constitutions Convention in Mary
land has resulted in favor Of The Con
ventionists, which is virtually q rebel
victory, the object being to fepeal
the rebel disfranchisement. "