New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-08-05
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We to Judge Of dramellng by It's own @ onsderng
and are not 10 soften our ~ his or that
what good there NAV in the character Vi - iesr i'm
dramscier. SO far, indeed, RON ms ,,tion is bad
mind thai the better the man non see in the
nn"rs 90 - The nrocpe6ings Of State Temperance I'M
mittee assembled recently az t6eir duty to quit the
ties even though those parties hHouu = ma Committee
league with dFamShoDs; ir naTtes Through thick and
thin and STAY them therefore llvN ",u,s n more
the policy OF these parties should 9e'oT0 Word
is there i'm these proceedings OF tue 49 nJ there he
. na,ott ,nrsoI and property. How couiu elulo 'Si
20 ptoSot c,,ttc" knew so well that the hrst step n
discharging this duty Is to suppl TiDcs else 10 per
nuIsaVo ,SapeTtv The inconsistency OF these GeIile
men explained by tie iaCt MAJ .noy ns crime and
Government deal with hctL OF Iu;t 1ra,rSeu, If ia
not used 10 seeing it deal thus WIN uaS'nS
true that in one OF S Ion the next LegslauTeS
Reading farther, however, We lnu ut t ts,S fl moe
,Irs mat win .tend to prohibit the sale VI ntoGcat
inc beverages" Vain IS tIS uV,|ra' ~, AZ
bCSWuousIv MS to what will thus "tGnd' but because
the demand not beiIg baehGu ~" W I YclIou pu IN
licensing the dramshop, but accompanied by the we'll
ton urpose 10 continue in them, must be utterly I'M
PIs e hat lie two most prominent objections to pro
hii'ry Inv continue to be harped on 1st To make 1t
Very ions eucroachment domestic freedom, 1t Is
called sumptuary law-whereas 1t does not seaIch w
FAMILY nor forbid the family from supplying itself with
liquors. Il is drHseg only that il forblds Inc pr
mhtory law bears no resemblance 10 sum-
is to regulate the living Of the people. ti LaT
object OF the pTohbitOry law Is 10 protect 49, 90
person and property. We do not ask GOvelnllelv 80
'suause any moral refOrn-nOt even the lehI.,,,oss
reform and the only reason why we ask u 10 nd
the dramShOp Is because the protection 0! ~ homnd
property being the province of Government u - md
t. protect he people from the burnings, asnit
murders chargCable the dramehop We i"Cnul.
tuat Incidental to such suppression Woud DC az ,,rcv
putahie benefit the cause or Temperance.
there is nothing this TO excuse GOVelIucu an trich
pressing Tho dTamshop. Neither the good nor 1 of
j. incidental 70 any Of the heSessat3 should
Government in protecting person anu b,dcd i'm ITS
he ruufoupdcd with that work or lbcl"'u +bot n
sr9.sIbc aims / would add in tins cohhev 'rtint for
thorph ID may be proper and Indeed very which
Tho friends OF Temperance to diSsuade from uIcs IL to
IT, l,t INU The driuker Government HevelthelesS
r,.,p.ru itself about other drinks IMAM ,Lc uublc
craze him and make hun fedlul peru ~, more TO be
safety Drinks, which merely stupely are nTfnb merely
noticed ly Government Than are dllhClo ibitory law
snpafy II Is % be regretted that any ,nItoX-
u0tgcg the pruscribcd drinks lntOXltaiS atyeqp tho
i, soil ba t6e only legal distinction h i esbond
prescribed and the permitted drinks anu f prosecution
ilyc it To- the jury to decide IN tat ntoxcatngis
,srtlsr the drink i'm question is on IS hu makes the
or j, not cralug-is or is not GIh Win" of this, the
driuEcr perOgs TO the public. lue it'is-wOuld be a
chief question. To "a juIy-tO INC fO'f'
highly popular feature lu the Jaw, ,rv law that u
ID Tie other objection 10 piOl me by such
cannot he enforced. 1 that ~ Sah,Ussod with. A
CuycrrIuCis rs the world is geneIhly iu that need
new sfyic OF Government Is needeu. style OF people.
J.. supplied until shall nave ~" ,oitirs Nor will
N,r his ur tcrr be a style OF ~ eltouId he
T,Sts ,arpe or politics be What lioI ,,d yonold
a., "a a. no I, h. of rplig shall uHuvIN li,G ne
Them am religion Of d0gluas anu ~ of lie hour
- 49,. ,l,,.a .ppu can the occasion VI ~ 80 az
NOV an for he turned for or asdiDst tnTE viii
9riir.f rum aud for or against - ,icb lie world is
me-, .i,H,. ~ no work the changes Ior "n'0' '' WIN "