Tama County Republican. (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1867-1872, 1871-11-02

men work inordinately hard, while
hundreds OF idle men are constantly
seen sauntering in various uniforms,
doing nothing at all except, perhaps,
blowing a cloud OF tobacco smoke.
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A convention OF the liquor dealers
OF Michigan held its first session in
Detroit yesterday. Their purpose is
to organize legal resistance to the
recent law Of the State which makes
the seller OF liquor responsible
for the damages to the relatives OF
the buyer. The exact terms of the
Michigan law are not before us, but
the principle is the same as that in
the law Of Ohio.-The law Of the lat.
ter State gives to the wife an action
of damages tor liquor sold to their
husband; to the husband tor damages
for liquor sold to the wife; to children
damages tor liquor sold to their pa
rents, and to parents tor liquor sold
to their children. Judgments in
these cases are a lien, not only against
the property of the vendor, but upon
the premises where the liquor is sold,
no matter by whom owned. This
law has been vigorously prosecuted
in many counties, and the selling o.
liquor in saloons has, in many places,
been broken up. The plaintiffs never
have any difficulty in getting verdicts,
because the popular feeling is always
against the saloon keeper. We snip
pose the law in Michigan to be sub
stautially the same. 1t is, as meas
ure of temperance, much more effica-
clous than a prohiDitory liquor law.
1t operates directly upon saloons.
Under a prohibitory law, liquor con-
tinues to be sold, the purchaser being
an accomplicc Of the seller, and public
opinion being generally opposed to
the law. But in this case public
opinion is opposed to the saloons;
they are looked upon as perpetual
inducement tor men to become loaf
ers and idlers; that men would drink
FIVE times in saloon to the once
they would qrlnk at home; that they
draw men away from their own
houses and families, and that the
amount spent in treating others is a
waste of means which Il 9 great ma
jority of customers cannot afford ;
that they afford the opportunity Tor
minors to drink, aud are the occasion
Of associations and acquaintance Of
the most de,noralizing character.
These and countless other reasons
ars given tor hostility to saloons
that do not apply to the mere use OF
liquor. Thousands of persons who
use liquor of all kinks share in the
hostility to the saloons, and never or
rarely frequent them.
This law has been tested in several
of the lower courts of Ohio, all OF
which have sustained its constitution
ally, but it has never been, We think,
carried to the Supreme Court OF the
State. The rcmonstrants in Michigan
propose toaaresist the law to t lie ex-
tent OF testing it's constitutionality
in all the higher courts.-l Chicago
Tribune
Lille Pecknam, the Milwaukee
woman's rights speaker, said some
sensible things on the wages question
at the Cleveland Convention, as this:
Nov, candldly, don't you think a
woman receiving ten dollars day
70: SIX hours work, as public officer,
could care for her children much bet
ter than if she were compelled to
work hard all day long as washer.wo-
man or sewing woman?"
1t Is strange, said the lecturer, in
conclusion, that tho only chapter in
the Bible 1.-THE last chapter OF Prov.
erbs) written BY woman 1.-THE moth
er OF King Lemuel), contains a plea
tor womans wages: "Give her the
fruit of her hands; and let her own
works praise her in tho gates"
Hon. William Barratt Washburn,
Republican candidate for Governor
of Massachusetts,, is little above me-
dunn height, probably five feet eight
and halt. round head, grayish dark,
curly hair, and full whlskers of the
same color though not long Or shay
gy. His face is round and full, his
eyes dark and fixed, his mouth larger
than the average, but the lips are not
such as you notice in a man of decid-
ed opinions and resolute determine
ton. He is inclined to be corpulent,
weighing about q hundred and eight
y pounds. His dress is usually a
dark business SUIT, and not noted for
tidinoss; there appears to be no atten.
ton paid in his "get-up" to minor de-
tails. He is in his fifty-second year.
According to the Journal three of
the preachers Of Lafayette, Indiana.
are we'll agreed that the Chicago Fire
was a divine and providential judy
ment upon wicked and unregener-
ate city. In order to give entire
consistency to this view of the case,
it should be demonstrated that the
companies in which the righteous
were insured, fully protected them,
while those OF the wicked all turned