The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1871-02-10
rom the GAINESVILLE City Times, Sd inst.
LIQUOR SELLING.

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From the GAINESVILLE City Times, Sd inst.
LIQUOR SELLING.
The Courier of Tuesday INDUCES
IN an editorial On the question of
Liquor Selling" and favors the
plan of regulating instead q prevent
ing its sale, confessing that tho peo-
pie are totally unable to avert the
saddest of calamities and ~counsellng
them to yield to an invader that is
now and has always been the worst
enemy of mankind. Here Is the
Curriers' position
The fact is that the entire liquor
business is on a false basis in this
State. Since before the days of Noah
mankind have used st%ilnulants, lyon
der if they used deliTiunl tremens in it
then. ED. TINES, and mankind will
continue to use them TO the end
Then the end is not far.-ED. TINES
Every nation and every people have
them. 1t is just as well to recognize
this fact established IS it is by the his
tory of the word, from the beginning,
and recognizing it, direct our efforts to
regulating the traffic in such things. IN,
stead of attempting to prevent it
Twenty years experience in our OWE
State, in attempting to prev6at the sale
of intoxicating liquors has only result
eG in putting the same very generally
into the hands of irresponsible parties
and banishing il into dark holes and
corners or behind screens, where Sc
crecy can be added 20 the other temp
tations of drinking. Temperate PEG,
pie never sec inside one OF these pla-
ces. Many of them are known only to
the initiated, and many a business
man slips quietly into them, takes q
NIP" or "noninGtes his poison" with
a n easy grace who could not be in
duced to enter any known tippling
resort.
The no license system is a practical
failure to accomplish good results. As
the time approaches when a change in
our State Constitution can be made, it
is well to agitate this question and
change it go that this business may be
regulated. 1t wants TO be taken out
OF these back rooms and placed in
trent ones, without screens or blinds,
and the light Of day let in upon it,
That OF itself would cure much. A
gain the right TO vend it wants to be
very carefully let to men, under very
heavy license, S heavy that every N
ofthem will become a detective TO fer
ret out and punish every Illicit deal
err"
The reader will pretty we'll und-
erstand by this tinc that .he CoWr-
Ter desires 10 make the business of
manufacturing d~runkards rcspecta-
bic. Now III L opinion, nothing
more damaging TO the cause of
temperance a be done, than TO re-
cognIze the right to sell intoxicating
drinks in any quantity us a bever-
age, and especially take il from the
''bacS rooms and place il in the
front ones." The Courier says that
twenty years experience in our
own State in attempting to prevent
the sale OF Intoxicating liquors has
only resulted IN banishing 1t into
dark holes and orner or behind
screens" and this demonstrates a
"fsiiure," and now asks that this
nefarIons traffic shall be again bro't
to the front doors, where the public
nose shall be compelled to snuff the
stencil nolenS rolenS. In other words,
it asks the devotees of this Cause to
yield the vantage ground. Iftwenty
years labor has done so much as 10
convince men of the Infamy of the
traffic and shamed them back into
dark places, what better assurance
do the people want than that wen
ty years moro will hurl it from the
battlements of earth. For heavens
sake don't ask the people to fight
the same ground over ; TO again go
through the tribulation and STRIFE
of driving this monster into dark
places. When they have done that
the prospect brightens, and TO q.
gain bring the Jugs, corks and bot
ties" TO the front, would be build
ing up with one hand and tearing
down with the other. Temperance
men must occupy the front. They
have won that position and must
net yield il. In the City Of lanes
vile to-day .he liquor influence 10
inmates. That rs, they rod the
balance of powor, and with the pre-
sent status Of parties, can and do
control elections. Why IS it2 We
should very much regret to lie cons
rcled to admit that q majority of
the voters of GAINESVILLE were in ia
vor Of the lndiscriminato sale Of Ii
4uor-ln favor of bringing 1t 10 the
front yet 1t ID a fact that their
municipal elections T so conduct
ed that tho question of temperance
IS entirely ignored. And this will
always be the case so long as the
people suffer themselves 10 be led
around and deceived by dishonest
partEans. This is the kind of sex
perience" we have had for "twenty
years." the result of which the Cow
rier pronounces a failure"
We deny that there has ever
been any organized effort made to
prevent the sale of liquor, and that
assistance gwen it that properly
belonged to 1t, and which the
friends of the movement had a right
TO expect. An effort has been made,
we admit, but it has always been
baffled and hIndered and It's advo>
Gates showed off and heoted at by
just such partizan papers as the one
We quote from, and in the interest
of a more powerful party been in
ducod to 'hold on" II this ques-
tion Is ever carried through it must
be forced INTO politics and n or
the other of the great parties made
to accept it, and they will co 1t just
so soon as they see that thor bait
ter Is On that side Of tho bread
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