Litchfield enquirer., 1872-10-03
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An esteemed Woodbury correspondent writes as follows: ..... ...
 NER. EDITOR: -Woodbury has voted "no icense." A thew thing" has certainly happened ssnnder the sum-" We'll they may say that it will not lessen drunken ness, that there will be just as much sold as ever, and all that but if it is right not to license, we have nothing to do with the rest For my part it seems as wrong to me that rum selling should be permitted as it would be to license stealing. It is an easy way to make living out of oth- CTS by theft, if we only do not get found out. and many one does it. But l would like to know if making drunkards, of men, is not stealing their brains, their money, their happiness, and their immortal souls, all together?
 The thought of this community has been called to this subject recently more than usual. The Good Templars got up paper addressed to the selectmen, ask ing them to cooperate with us in prevent ing the sale of liquors in our town 'as beverage" It was signed by some of the best men of the town. Those who refus- ed, had good reasons no doubt. They feared to spoil themselves for office or hurt their friends, or possibly they feared they should be served as good Dea. Sherman was, many years ago, who had his horses tail sheared and his wagon burned, because he was decided tetota- Ter and went against the traffic in mems souls and bodies. But, oh! venerable shade of the Deacon, arise and ''run speak to that young mani" Do you ask if I mean any one in particular do; and perhaps will tell you the story some time of what he did. Surely it may he said of such, 'sThey know not what they dop
 We shall not attempt to justify the 1iq- uor traffic. Suppose, however, that ex- perience has shown the people of Wood bury, or any other town, that this traffic cannot be prevented in their limits. Is it wrong, in such case, for total abstinence men to vote for license that can effect 8 restriction of the worst features of the traffic? We do not so view it.
 If the total abstinence men are minor ity of the voters of Woodbury, or of any other town, they cannot reasonably ex- pect to compel the majority to become total abstinent by legal process; but they may unite with the latter class of temper ate citizens in stopping sales to minors and drunkards. If, on the contrary, they unite with the worst closs of liquor deal CTS and consumers in voting, 'No Li- cense, they practically vote Gree Rum. '" In too many places temperance men are acting in the interest of those who desire to make the new law as completely dead letter as the old. Inasmuch as we do not know whether controlling majority of the voters of the town of Woodbury are total abstinent or not, we do not under take to say whether their action in refus- ing license was judicious or otherwise
 We only know that in many towns in this State temperance men are making the great mistake of voting the continuance of the evilest forms of a traffic they can- not prevent, but might restrict
 The campaign has started slowly in Ohio. In fact all the risk the Republi- cans run there is from @ light vote A correspondent of the N. Y. Times, says:
 Now, as to possible danger which I nave alluded to, let me assure you that it is only possible in case of failure to poll full vote. The boast of the Liberals about their fabulous accession's has no | foundation worthy of moments consid- eration, except in the six or seven counties where the German Republican vote forms Q material element in the politics of the locality. I shall give some evidence on these points before conclude this letter. There is enough of this German Republi- can defection to materially affect the re- suit by reducing the Republican majority, provided the aggregate vote is not lar ger than it was last year, when itreached 460, 462. Now, then, to equal the vote thrown in October, 1868, it must be ifl- creased nearly 60, 900; while to take the last election for Secretary of State in 1870, it must be increased beyond that nearly O.O00. So that if this reserved vote. which never comes out save in Presidential years, and is mostly confined to the agri- cultural counties, be thrown this year, Ohio will undoubtedly remain Republican by handsome majority. The simple ques- ton is, Will the vote be boiled? From present indications it is much more likely to be than it was ten days or two week ago.
 Other reports show that work is very lively there now, and that full vote may be expected. ss ~ - aA
 There is beautiful fight going on be- tween Mr. Lewis and the irrepressible Gallagher for the mayoralty of New Ha- ven and &1.a .,,.ar ,.s.... r -E@