The Petroleum Centre daily record. [volume] (Petroleum Center, Pa.) 1868-1873, 1873-07-22
Local Option.

The Warren Ledger thus relates the
workings of Local Option in that place:
Under the Local Option law, Warren
Couoty voted that liquor nor beef should
not b sold within its limits, except Tor
medical purposes. The licenses ell expir-
I'd 10 June, and most OF them 10 March,
whss 10 The result In this short space Of
simsf Who has been benefited? Let us
see. There srs thirteen places In town
where hard cider ia dealt out. 1t is not
popular drink, but 10 the absence OF beer
and whiskey, men do drink 1t and become
drunk uponit Its effects upon the drinker
are even worse than whisky, and greatly
worse than beer. But low about the sale
Of beer, II cannot be rstsilsd; but every
person who can purchase keg and desi res
to do 80, can. The consequence is that
beer kegs are as plentiful o. blsckberries 10
August. The breweries have doubled their
sales over las, year. When The saloons sold
u, men were content to drop 10, take, .
glass sud 20 about their business. Now
they purchase keg. A ksg Of beer n
worthless soon after 1t 10 drawn from.-
Friends are called In 10 drain the ksg be/
fore Il loses Its vim, and dozens Of glasses
are drank where one was before. How
about whisky! Go 70 the express office and
and out. Packages arrive every day for
numerous parties, who before contented
themselves with singls drink; aod there
are more drusksn men 90 our streets, We
are told, than formerly, when the hotels
and saloons were licensed to sell. Then
tbere is 20 Ie.s liquor drank. and far more
cider which is more hurttol than whisky or
beer. -- ... .''f
What 10 The effect upon trade! Ask any
men Of business 10 coy Town 10 the county.
The general answer is that business WAS
never 90 dull. Ip Warren the effects are
really pros.rating. s.-
Strangers who formerly did their trading
here, not finding 1t handy - procure theis
drinks, are forming, or have already form
cd other business relations 10 Cory, James
town and Titusville, where liquor can b.
had for The askios, aud whess they Gao 60
aud re,sro the same day. oo the railroads,
st tribe expenditure. Ask our mechanics
bow shsir business ia They will tell you
that where last year they kept several
jsurnsymen. and worked hard themselves,
work was constantly pressing, while now
there 10 DO work for tie joutneymsn, aod
hardly sufficient 10 keep an apprentice a.
work. Hundreds OF thousands OF dollars
ere thus being diverted IRON our county
which lesisimatsly belong here, on accouu,
Of NO licensed places where whisky or beer
can b had. This entire stagostion 10 no,
attributable 10 this cause, % times are gee.
orally dull; but much Of II II is. Ask The
men who are travelling over the State
They will tell yos that In oil places whsr.
licenses prevail business 10 good, aud whsr,
Local Option prevails busiusss is dull. I
works 90 NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. trade II
the whisky towns; and W. notice there 10 ,
geasisl murmur OF disoontent where ! icen
ssd saloons and hotels are not to bs found
There u no diminution Of the drinking b,
our local population, aod those outside. Q
our liwits are dsbarred from the privilege,
which they seek and and elsewhere.
The law should bs msde to opsrat
throughout the State or It should BE- repeal
cd oa the assembling Of the Legislature
aud that is most likely. Many who wcrks,
for Local Option would vote for licsns,
now, on pursly busioess grounds. The id
vosases OF Local Option had good iutsn
sions; but they nisjudged, Il seems to u.s.
They desirad less " bisky drinking, and dlt
not look beyond to the effect on rads Il
places where licenses were refused. A few
months only have elapsed, ana yet the Of
feet 10 clearly psrceptibie.
PARIS CIrY.-This % The name OF q nsy