The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1871-02-10
THE LIQUOR B.AWS OF OHIO
-EXECDTE THEM,

4 gentleman, now and for years
back prominent among the leaders
Of the Republican party of Morgan
county, asks US to publish the gisi
Of the Liquor Laws of Ohio, and
said that the Prohlbirionists were
afraid to let the people know what
can now be done under these laws.
Had he been a constant reader of
the CoNsERyATTYE LIE would no.
have made such a foolish statement,
Us we have not only published long
ago what can be done under our
present hwe, but have also coutin-
ually urged the rigid enforcement
Of them However. we viii pub.
lisa the gist OF them again, as We
find them summed up in an ex-
change:
"The Laws of Ohio prohibG-
/. Every sale Of spirituous lio.
Gors or Sunday Or OF election
days
2. To buy for, furniss, sell, or
give any Intoxicating auors 70
any person intoxicated, or to any
person in the habit of getting in.
toxicated, or 10 a minor without
the written order of a parent, guar
dian or family physician, is forbid~
den.
3. Tie sale or giving away of in
t~oxIcsting liquors. in any quantity,
30 be drunk on or about the premi-
SEES. From this case is excepted
native wine, beer, ale, and cider /;
but this exception does not extend
a the other cases.
t. The sale of intoxicating iio-
uors within four miles Of a camp
meeting or other religious meetings
held in an open fold or woodland
The penalties prescribed under
these several heads vary from IS to
500, in some c4ses imprisonment
from 10 to 80 days
5. Tipping houses may be declar>
cd and be closed up.
s. Persons intoxicated may be
fined FIVE dollars.
Z. Families deprived of support
by the sale to the husband of intox-
icating liquors, may have damages,
IN a civil action, against the party
making the sale.
8. Persons taking care of and
providing for an intoxicated per-
sun, may recover compensation a
gailfst the party selling the liquor.
9 Persons keeping a nInc-pin
alley, or permitting them to be
laspt, in connection with retailing
s%pirliuous liquor or the keeping of
a public house, + liable to y fine
of $500.
10. Itis provided that every hus-
band, vito, child, parent, or en-
ployer or other persops injured in
body or estate by an Intoxicated
person, or In consequence Of int9xi-
cation, shall! have a right of action
against the person or persons sell
ing the intoxicated person the Iiq-
nor resulting in such intoxication.
This right of action is good, not
merely against the liquor seller,
but the owner of the building IN
which the liquor was sold"
Is will be observed by reading
the above, both civil and criminal
suits can be begun for violating the
Liquor Laws of Ohio. The civil
suits must be carried on by the par
ty Or parties injured, and
it's the duty Of the Prosecuting
Attorney to institute that inquiry
that is the necessary forernnner of
the criminal prosecutions. Will not
the parties injured by the traffic
iastitute their civil actIOns? VIII
not our Prosecuting Attorney DO
his sworn dutS, or will he be
eight en- those that elected him?
Reader, we want you to remem5-
er this article. When q RepuBfi-
can politician, or a Democratic pol
~itlcian, we care not which, tells you
that shs Prohibitionists are afraid
notify the people of the existing
Liquor Laws and what can be done
by the enforcement of them, We