The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1870-11-05
For the Palladium.
Mr. EDITOR

Some of your readers were inter
ested in your call last week to the
condition of the calaboose, md W.
hope some means will be taken tC
remedy the evils that exist in tina,
direction. Surely, when the city
not only tolerates, but licenses q
certain class of men to destroy an
other class, at least to dethrone
their reason for the time being, and
make them unfit to run at large, it
ought to provide a halfway CON-
Portable place to keep the victims
until they are restored to reason.
! But there is q cause back of this
that ought to claim the attention
of the people. Those who heard
the speech Of Mayor Bennett, at
Central Church a few weeks ago,
we'll remember that he said there
. were only zone or two Of the Ii
quor sellers of this city who had
taken out the city license, and all
| the rest were selling in open viola.
ton of the law.
Mr.. Editor, we do not believe
that any amount of licenses can
remove this curse that attends the
sale Of whisky, as a beverage.
Those houses that are licensed, will
make just as many drunkar de as
those that are not. But yet, as
there is a law of this city re4uir-
ing these men who sell whisky to
make their neighbors drunk-to
take out license, to get the city
permit to do so-it argues q very
slight regard for law, for those
knowing these facts, to allow men
to go on in the midst of the people,
dealing out intoxicating liquors
and nothing done to stop them.
Almost every day men are seen on
our streets who have been victim
lied by these men who fatten on
widows tears, and orphans groans.
When that law was passed., how the
papers eulogised the Quaker
City" for the advanced step she
had taken in the Temperance ques-
ton, and those who did not know
any better, really thought, that
something would be done-that
the streams Of iniquity would be
dried up. This law had been pass
ed, and that was evidence in ad-
vance that it would be executed.
Where are those MOTHERS Of Rich
mopd, and those FATHERS, who
went to the Council Chamber Of
this city, and besought them to
pass the law Don't it look rea-
sonable that the Council would ex-
pcct that every one of those SO in
terested in the passage of that law,
would feel morally bound to use
their utmost efforts equally with
the city officers, to see the law en-
forced? and yet weeks have passed
since the facts were told in pub
lie meeting, and we have not heard
Of any move being made to stop
the traffic, either by .he people or
the city officers. True, every few
days we see some poor victim led
reeling to the calaboose and lock
ed up. Deprived Of Gods free
gifts to all men, Light and Air"
He stays there a while-until the
authorities let him out-and is he
any better for having been there
Will he have more moral courage
TO pass those tempting dens behind
the screens i? Will he have any
more self-rcspect for having been
incarcerated in the calaboose Is
any thing done while be is there to
make him better man There
is a great wrong some where, and
it viii! be we'll for each one who
values the moral purity Of the city,
to look to their own individual re
sponsibility in the matter. There
is no one that can get clear Of duty,
to themselves and humanity.
MIRA.
RICHMOND, Nov. 3, 1870.
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