Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1867-03-27
TamparaMce.

BALKTTA, March 20, 1867.
EDIToR CHRoNIcLE:-The subject OIL
Temperance has obtained preeminence
among US Of late, much TO the joy Of ma
ry. Discussion having been commenced
by our worthy DR.. Casterline, before not
over large audiences, the interest has in
creased until W. o. Forrist. Esq, Of your
town entertained . very full house on the
18th in delivering, as some say, the best lee
ture Of the season. This lecture was clear,
GrswnentGtiue and searching. This may be
said also of the lecture of the DR.. ana that
Of the Rev. Mr.. Warren. We found no
chance to differ from Mr.. Forrist's posi-
ton, except upon one point, viz: that all
must be accomplished through moral Na-
sion, and that legislation is useless. He
8 v IS an example the workings of the
law in our own State and county. he said:
We have had the best Judge in the State,
and our Prosecutor is an honest man, and
yet while our State laws have been en-
forced to the letter, intempersnce has been
alarmingly on the increase" Now We
do not dispute the honesty Of our Prosecu-
tor, and zoe do admire Judge Glidden, but,
Mr.. Editor, as youhave heretofore rep%rt-
ted the doings of our court, are not full
one-hah of the liquor prosecutions report
ed as "nollied," and the criminal dis
charged by paying the costs, while the
worst criminals are fined the lowest
amount fixed by law, so that as Mr.. For
rist tells Us, they can make money not
w~ithstanding their fine, or 'can afford to
lie in Jail while 3 hired boy runs their
T shop!" All our abe lecturers have
denounced this traffic in intoxicating Ii.
quors a. 3 beverage, O. . "heinous crime
against God and humanity, causing more
death than war, sven for the last seven
year,; . worse crime than treason, &c.
II this be true, why In the ZANE of @God
and humanity should not the perpstra-
tors of this crime he visited with the sever
est penalties Of nj present inadequate
liquor lAHi And the fines made 50 large
that Nj. SouLand-body-ruinsr cannot af.
ford 70 ilie in Jail while . hired boy runs
his ruinous establishments" Can this Jail
bird be appealed 70 by moral suaGionf Is
there not , class Of persons who will fire.
quent his den o fpollution, that will never
be voted into . society Of Good TemplArs,
and who will never be reached by any
temperance society upon the principle of
moral EnAsion only! Mr.. K. very properly
brands the man who puts the intoxicating
cup to the mouths OF our youth, as q muir
durer. Shall the murderer 60 unpublished?
Shall we not have laws adequate to this
crimei And will not the common people
look upon this traffic as abigh crime when
our laws make it such? 1t is true that
laws aye Of no avail while public opinion
is against them, but we have great faith
that public opinion is in advance of u
statute laws in this respect, and that the
people are las they were with regard TO
President Lincoln's emancipation proclG-
matiOn,) more ready to rejoice over this
measure than its best friends imagined
1 can bat second the position of "Alo-
path" that Congress or the State legiila-
lures, or both, have . work TO do in dri-
wing this drugged and poisonous liquor
from oar land, and combining the sale Of
intoxicating liquors to medicinal and me-
chanieal purposes only. God speed the Ia
borers in this cause. n.