Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1872-11-14
The Rum-SeiIer.


The legalized rum seller is in bal
business. He gives his. customers o..
equivalent for their money. Ethicali
considered, his whole work is founded
in dishonesty. And besides the fscB
that his liquors are of no real value, it
is no equivalent for theimoney paid
They are baleful compound of alco
holic and drug pOisons. He is q pofz<
oner- general according to law. His
drugged liquors produce disease in ev
cry organ, muscle, nerve, and fiber of
the drinker, and entail it, in terrible
forms, upon his children.
The thousands of liquor sellers In
this State, are located in all parts Of
it, and are filling every city. county
town and village, with disease and
death. Besides this, it inflicts an inn
measurable amount of poverty, squal-
or and want; not only upon the drink
er, but also upon myriads of innocent
women and children, and pours upon
them untold degradation and misery.
And all along the dark pathway Of
this rum traffic, idiocy springs up, in
sanity dourishes, and raves, and RACES.
1t rohs men of moral worth and pow
er, fosters everything that is bad in
his nature, and is the great producer
of vice and crime. The rum shop is
a mandatory of dishonesty, licen-
dousness, knavery, riot, murder and
of public and political corruption. It
is at war with everything good and
valuable, and it originates, promotes,
or intensifies almost every evil that
afflicts man. No intelligent man, of
moral worth, will deny the above allie
cations. Is it not strange that this
wicked and destructive traffic is toler-
ated, legaIized, and carried on all over
the State And the State not only
authorizes this trade, but takes money
of the rum. seller, and is thus finan-
cial partner also in this unmeasured
Wickedness. The rum seller has le-
gal status, is licensed under State
laws. and works for the State. The
State is eally rum machine, and it
runs in this way, some 10000, more
or less, rum shops and fills the State
with all this poverty, misery, disease,
crime and death. Who is accounts
bic for all this +? The voterS. The
voters are the original and response
Bile persons. They determine what
our government and laws shall be. The
| license law is their law, the rum seller
is their agent, and they 1.-THE voters)
are accountable with them (the ven
ders) for all their dreadful work. Let
the voter know that if he votes for IL
cense parties, the responsibility. and
guilt of the rum traffic in the whole
State, attaches to him. The State is
a great rum machine, and the voter
sanctions and maintains this 'srum and
ruin'' order of things in our empire
State. Let the man, the patriot and
Christian man, who has voted for the
license system, note that the license
law is h1sa law; the rum seller is his
rum m-seller; and the rum cause power
ty, disease, vice, crime, mirery and
death are all his. What a man does
by his agent, he does himself. This
is both reason and law. Let the vo-
ters of this State look this question
fully in the face, and arise in their
might, and in the name of justice and
humanity wash themselves and the
State from this gigantic and insatia-
BILE evil w have no right, no NOR
al right, to license this evil! We have
no moral right to permit it to remain
in the State! We are morally bound
to prohibit and exterpate it!-N C..
/ AdUoc0te.