Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1872-02-14
The New Temperance Law In
Illinois.

Illinois.
The following are the more important
sections Of the new temperance law of
Illinois. Its workings will be watched
with interest the country over:
Section |. BE il enacted by the peo-
pie of the State Of Illinois, represented in
the General Assembly, That it shall be
unlawful for any person or persons, by
agent or otherwise, without first having
obtained a license to keep grocery, to
sell in any quantity, intoxicating liquors.
to be drank in, upon OF about the build
ing or premises where sold, or to sell such
intoxicating liquors TO be drank in any
adjoining room, building or premises, or
other place of public resort, connected
with said building; Frooided, that no
person shall be granted license to sell
orgive away Intoxicating liquors, with
out first giving buod to the municipality
or authority authorized by law to grant
licenses; which bond shall run in the
name of the people ofthe State of Illinois,
and be in the penal sum of three thousand
dollars, with at least two good and sufh-
c;ent securities, who shall be freeholders,
conditioned that they will pay all dam
ages TO any person or persons which may
be inflicted upon them, either in person
or property, or means of support, BY rea-
son of so obtaining license, selling or
giving away intoxicating liquors /; and
bonds may be sued and recovered upon for
the use Of any person or persons, or their
legal representatives, who may be injur-
ed by reason of the selling intoxicating
liquors by the person Or his agent so oh.
tanning the license.
Section 2. 1t shall be unlawful for any
person or persons. by agent or otherwise,
TO sell Intoxicating liquors to minors, un-
less upon the written order of their pa
rents, guardians or family physician, or
TO persons intoxicated, or who are in the
habit of getting intoxicated.
SEC. 3. All places where intoxicating
liquors are sold in violation Of this act shall
be taken, held and declared 10 be COM
mon nuisahces and all rooms, td7erns,
eating-houses, bazars, restaurants, drug
stores, groceries, coffee houses, cellars, or
other places of public resort, where intox-
icating liquors are sold in violation of this
act, shall lie shut up and abated as public
nusances, upon conviction of the keeper
thereof, who shall be punished as herein
after provided.
SEC. 1. Every person who who shall,
by the sale of intoxicating liquors, with
o. without license, cause the intoxica-
ton of any other person, shall be liable
for and compelled TO pay reasonable
compensation to any person who may take
charge of or provide for such intoxicated
person, and two dollars per day in addi-
tion thereto for every day such intoxicat-
ed person shall be kept in consequence Of
such intoxicaton; which sums may be
recovered in an action of debt before any
court having competent jurisdiction.
SEC. 5. Every husband, wife, child,
parent, guardian, employer or other per-
sou, who shall be injured in person or
property. or means of support, by any in
toxicated person, or in consequence of the
intoxication, habitual or otherwise, of any
person, shall have the light of action in
his or her own name, severally or jointly,
against any person or persons who shall
have caused the intoxcation, in whole or
in part. of such person or persons; and
person or persons owing, renting, leasing,
or permitting the occupation of any build.
ing or premises, and having knowledge
that intoxicating liquors are to be sold
therein, or who, having leased tho same
for other purposes, shall knowingly per-
init therein the sale of intoxicating liquors
that have caused, in whole or in part, the
intoxication Of any person, shall be liable,
severally or jointly. with the person or
persons selling or giving intoxicating H.
quors aforesaid, for all damages sustained,
and for exemplary damages.
MAKE STRAIGHT PArHs y oung men
when they 60 away from home, and young
women, at their first entrance upon socic-
ty, are very apt to incur needless risks to
character and reputation from sheer fool.
hardness. They DO not intend to do
wrong, but they wish to :. use their free
DOM" They feel strong, and are wise In
their own conceit. They would like to do
some daring deed and come out unscathed,
just to falsify the predictions of older
heads. We have known many youths to
throw themselves in the way Of wicked
temptation. and to walk purposely on the
edgcof some fatal precipioe, for the mere
purpose of showing their moral agility in
escaping.
For such. and for all who have any in
f1uence with such, we have message
worth considering. (, Make straight paths
for your feet, lest that which is lame be
turned out of the way, but let it rather
be healed" Not even the Son of God
would make a needless leap from the pin
nacle Of the temple. Angels will bear us
up in every danger, SO that no person do
ing his duty shall suffer bruising but he
who chooses the roughest and most dam
gerous paths without being called to tread
them, is tempting God to leave him to
the natural results Of bis own weakness.