The Republican journal., 1872-09-05
Bro. Hichborn has REGRETS.

afflicted with a mania tor rushing INTO
print, and needs but the slightest provoca-
ton to labor for several consecutive days
on column communication. The one in
the Prog. Age headed Regrets of Tenn
perance Men, and signed with flourish
of Latin lore, ''Pro Bono Publico," is I'M
questionably his The earmarks and
foot-marks are there, as plainly as the
crow leaves his track in the mud Such
a phrase as How stands the fact ?" was
never cast in any mould save that filled
from the remarkable metal crucible of the
Sage of Stockton. 1t is one of the incon-
gruous and unmeaning verbal pets, with
which he delights to mystify the ground
lings and elicit the tribute OF wonder at
his profound intellect.
Well, Mr.. Hichborn has regrets" He
regrets that we should display ''dilapidat-
ed cider presses and put reading under
them. We have no doubt of it, Those
same dilapidated presses are to give him
and his party an almighty squeeze. But
we have our regrets, also We regret that
Mr. H. should have written the following
paragraph, became the essence of a false
hood is the intention to deceive. He says
| So, too, the legislature of Illinois at its last
| session. put upon Its statute books the most
stringent law ever enacted for the suppression
| of the sale of intoxicating liquors. and to the
honor of both parties il was ascertained by
actual count that majority of all the Demo
Gratis and all the Republicans in that body voted
for the measure.
The tact is, and we are ready to prove
it, that the Illinois liquor law is one OF
license, permitting any citizen with GER
tain qualifications. and under certain re-
strictions. to sell liquors, by giving bond
to indemnity parties who may be harmed
by improper sale. 1t has more common
sense in its little finger than the Maine law
in its whole body. 1t is said that it works
excellently we'll Not so much liquor is
sold under it, in proportion to population,
as IN Maine, for the dealers are cautious
to whom they sell, and allow no one to
get drunk on their premises. 1t dispenses
with complaint and seizure, with sneaks
and informers with the enormous expen-
SEES of our system, with the State rum
shop with the miserable humbug OF the
cider law, and, better than all, with the
columns Of nonsense which Mr. Hichbom
intlicts upon a suffering public, in his par
oxysms of scribblng
For the ills and losses which orchardists
suffer by the present law. Mr.. H. has a
remarkable remedy. He says
Nor we understand, do the complaints
| come from the cider makers The orchardStS.
intelligent and ShreWd men. they generally
are, and why should they: Their cider ba:reled
| and kept over season will bring in the market
100 per cent. more rs vinegar than rs cider.
| How can money be made readily:
The meaning, especially of the second
sentence. is obscure, but we think we can
understand it. Mr. Hichborn, who is a
political economist OF very high order,
means to have laws regulating the farm
operations of the State. The crops and
manner of managing and disposing OF
them are so much better understood by
wise men like himself. that their views
are to "crystallize into law" to use an
other OF his pet phrases. All the people
are to be taught better ways Of doing
everything hay, they are to be forced to
do it, What business have the farmers to
90 laundering year after year into the
deadly sins of cider making and cider
drinking, when they ought to be making
vinegar, aud thus save their souls9
This is wonderfully simple process.
The stride from salvation to damnatiou is
only as far as one days fermentation in
the cask. How kind of nature, to 90 on
from the vinouS to the acetic fermentation
and save us all, under the patronage of
this sage. But what is to happen if per
chance somebody should drink of the arti-
Gle before it was passed from cider 10 vine
gar. The old formula tells us that cider
may be made into vinegar by setting the
cask in a warm place with IN empty bottle
inverted in the bung. Shalthe wicked per-
sons who get full of cider be served in the
same way? But there is liable to be one
objection. With the radical longing and
seeking after office, there is likely to be
created a new crop, IN the shape of super
intendents OF these processes, perhaps with
the Grand Head Centre at Stockton. Ii
the thing goes on, our rural friends may
expect to see the chiet official, armed with
q bung- starter and stomach-pump, going
from house to house on tour of nspec-
ton, with the great light OF a moral aud
social millennium encircling him like a
halo We shall see